I never expected my coworker to see *that*...

[desh]

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]

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[sleepsong.livejournal.com]

It bothers the hell out of me whenever I'm at Coffee Tree and some jagoff comes and starts shaking the knob. I'm always afraid the lock will fail, and it just seems really, really rude to me. I always knock, even if I'm certain nobody's in there, both to keep up the habit and to protect anybody in there who might not have the ability to close the door all the way (or who might have been in a really big rush and forgot).