Today, my older brother told me that no matter how fast you run at automatic sliding doors, they'll open in time. So I ran at a pair. They don't. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I walked into an automatic glass door at a mall when it failed to open. A woman asked if I was OK, so I said, "I'm fine, the door must be busted." The automatic door then opened immediately after, proving it worked just fine. FML
Today, I realized I've been saying "Excuse me" to automatic sliding doors for the past week. They haven't responded yet, but I'll keep you posted on their social skills. FML
Today, I was in my backyard. When I wanted to come back in the house, I tried to open the sliding door. I knew that my brother locked me out so I banged on the door very hard, causing the glass to break. It turns out that the door wasn't locked. FML
Today, I went to run outside, only to smack straight into our sliding glass door. Just a few hours beforehand, my mom put up a strip of colored tape to stop this from happening. FML
Today, I walked up to a store’s automatic doors. They didn’t open. I waved my arms, stepped back and forward again, nothing. A staff member came over, tapped a button, and said, “It’s manual.” FML
Today, I was at a store when I saw a cute girl from my school. Trying to act cool, I went to hold the door for her. Too bad it was an automatic door. FML
Today, I walked up to what appeared to be an automatic door. I stood for a second, waved my arms, but nothing happened. Then a guy came from behind me, pushed a clearly visible button under a clearly visible sign that read "Push to open." He said, “It’s OK, happens to everyone.” It doesn’t feel like it does. FML
Today, I was walking towards the bus. The bus was scheduled to leave at 3:20, and it was 3:19 so I decided to run for it. As the doors were closing, I managed to just slip my hand into the door, so it didn't fully close. The bus driver saw this, looked at my face, and then drove away. FML
Today, I was trying to be polite by holding the door for an elderly lady in a shop. What I didn’t realise was that the doors were automatic. I ended up standing there awkwardly for a good 5 seconds, holding onto thin air, while she just smiled and walked by. A bloke behind me said, “The doors don’t need your help, mate.” FML
Today, as my brother parked in our hotel's parking lot, I told him to be careful because the car wasn't straight. He retorted, "Yeah, just like you". My mother was in the back seat and heard everything. I hadn't come out yet. FML
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24788 7
WTF were you trying to prove?
redbluegreen 41
Older brothers will say anything to make you look like an idiot, and you can't move faster then the machine can do it's job. I can't believe you believed him.
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Comments (173)
itsoliviabruhh 0
i love canadians and americans and i will soon be a citizen of both :))
xnj319 2
FYI... automatic doors often open slowly as a loss prevention measure... they're supposed to slow a person down in the event that they have been spotted shoplifting or something and are trying to run away.
mister_moops 0
i thought you could just push automatic doors. meant to be emergency only, but still.
Emeno_fml 0
im sorry to this person but what u just did was a complete fail
taygirl1 0
i always thought that we Americans were always the dumb ones..but the Canadians are moving up there
AmpulexCompressa 0
Wow. I'd say you walked right into that one, but you actually ran into it.
kellster 2
Do you know how they work? They're not speed-sensitive, idiot! They open at the same speed no matter what. Which should have been obvious if you've ever been through motion-sensor doors in your life before. I can't believe someone would actually think this could work.
athos1237 4
First off, your "older brother" gave you this info . . . duh! The primary function of any big brother is to cause his younger siblings to do stupid things. You are very obliging. Put some ice on whatever you hurt and learn the lesson. dumba$$
shaPOW 0
First of all, YDI unless you're like 5 years old. Secondly, why are so many people saying American doors open really fast? I live in the US, and I walk through automatic doors all the time and almost always have to slow down as I wait for them to creak slowly open. This has happened to me in several states, often in new buildings that haven't had time to wear down with age.
Cali_Chick 0
I agree with #164. I live in the U.S and have never had that experience. Automatic doors are always slow to open...sometimes I avoid them altogether and just go to the doors that you open manually.