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I never expected my coworker to see *that*...
OK, help settle a ridiculously overanalyzed debate at work.
Assume you wish to enter a restroom you know to be a single-person restroom not restricted to any particular gender. The door is closed and you can't easily ascertain whether the light's on, and therefore whether someone's in it, or whether the door was just accidentally closed. Assuming the following additional information, do do you test the handle to see if it's locked (and open the door if it's not), or do you knock first (and then test the handle if you don't hear an answer)?
[Poll #1511654]
Assume you wish to enter a restroom you know to be a single-person restroom not restricted to any particular gender. The door is closed and you can't easily ascertain whether the light's on, and therefore whether someone's in it, or whether the door was just accidentally closed. Assuming the following additional information, do do you test the handle to see if it's locked (and open the door if it's not), or do you knock first (and then test the handle if you don't hear an answer)?
[Poll #1511654]
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I also spent a couple years of my teens being genuinely terrified of opening doors, so make of that what you will. Maybe it is a gender thing?
(Women are also pretty much trained, practically from birth, to check stalls by looking for shoes, as opposed to knocking or pushing at the door or whatever. Maybe that's part of it?)