Manual or automatic, physical or emotional, personal or professional… I HATE DOOR CLOSERS! The manufacturers of the push button style of garage door openers and closers discovered recently that, given the time, it was possible for a door opener purchased by one consumer for their own door could open the garage door of another’s home.

This can happen if the same frequency code is used for a similar door closer. So, only in America can we spend hundreds of dollars and a large amount of time carefully selecting the door that will keep us safe, protect our cars and other valuables from thieves and slim our utility bills by keeping out winter’s fury and summer’s heat only to find that ANYONE can open our home and help themselves! What good is a door closer then?

Everyone has had this experience: You walk up to a home as a child, so eager to reach your goal of selling 589,000 candy bars to get that “digital phone”. The nice old lady next door to this house just bought two…only 587,000 left to go! You ring the doorbell and imagine talking to your best friend on your new phone…who is so jealous because she will only sell 20 items. The door opens and a nice old man is staring down at you…and he doesn’t look too nice! After your first word he says ,”I don’t want any!” and slams the door closed… I HATE DOOR CLOSERS!

Or, the worse kind imaginable, the personal/emotional kind, and it haunts from age 15 sometimes clear into adulthood. The cute guy in the corner booth looks bored to tears and is staring your way. His buddies are totally into whatever game in on the television towering above their heads and don’t notice that he is getting up to walk over to say hello. You talk, laugh, drink some more, dance and enjoy one another’s company. The evening lingers longer than his hand over yours and then it happens: instead of telling you what a nice time he had and asking you if he can call, he says, ”your place or mine?” BAMM! It was there, the door waiting to remain open or be slammed shut and really HE DID IT, but it still is filled with the disappointment you felt when the old man crushed your vision of selling 589,000 candy bars… I HATE DOOR CLOSERS!

Professionally, the door closers can be anyone, your boss, a fellow co-worker, a certain account. It can even be the weather…it all depends upon your job and who you are in that job. There’s nothing like spending 6 months and countless hours preparing a case to have the jury come back with a “NOT GUILTY” verdict. It could be the advertising campaign that was YOUR brain child that was rejected by no one, except the decision maker. It could be the countless hours of overtime you put in to get yourself that promotion you deserved, only to have a new, very undeserving co-worker seal the deal.

No matter what type or how hard, I HATE DOOR CLOSERS!