space for RENT

• Safety and stability in case of earthquakes seems to be an old wives tale...which is clearly the wrong thing to do.
• The ability to view two separate rooms simultaneously.
• A good place to lean against while talking
• To "frame" ones self.
• Indecisiveness and the inability to make easy decisions, like this room or that.
• Just plain ignorance and lack of respect for other people trying to actually cross through from one room to the next.

The list goes on and on.

A good friend once told me that when you arrive to a party, bar or any get together...you should always stop in the doorway when you enter. This small pause in the door frame actually portrays as a picture frame with you as the focus. I like the whole idea of that, just as long as your "pause" doesn't turn into an eternity.

Another theory is for safety. It may be that people feel more secure about many different situations and try to remedy that uneasiness by standing in the doorway. It also gives them an "easy exit" out of uncomfortable or awkward conversations that they may be involved with. This gives them another room to escape into if worse comes to worse.

Personally, I'd like to think that it might be a combination of safety and comfort laced with indecisiveness.

Nonetheless, it always seems to happen when I need to go from one room to another. And it drives me insane when people are offended by having to move aside to let you through. I am pretty sure that I have the "right of way"...Do I not?

# posted by Mikey B @ 1:04 PM