Why do women always slam/fling open car doors/boots?
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Mine is fine, its the kids that seem to think it needs slamming, they do it in the house as well, all the paint crack around doorframes due to the force a teenager who has been told no can generate, and, on leaving the house my youngest falls out of the front door, holding the door knob until the last moment, by which time it has achieved terminal velocity, the resultant noise and shockwave have been picked up by the British Sizemalogical institute.
I think sometimes people forget that another door is open or the roof, air pressure does have a bearing on slamming.
Someone on our road seemingly has a car with 18 doors as they generally have a go at closing all of them at midnight or six am, it is possible to close a door quietly.
the other one is the grumpy old phlegger in the knackered old 206 who now deliverers the papers at 6.30 and does a bit of slamming, blasts out radio 2 and also has no concept of the button on the end of the handbrake that avoids hitting every tooth on the ratchet mechanism, noisy old sod, speaks volumes about the local youth that a grown man has to drive a car to deliver papers, whats wrong with a teenager on a bike ?
I think sometimes people forget that another door is open or the roof, air pressure does have a bearing on slamming.
Someone on our road seemingly has a car with 18 doors as they generally have a go at closing all of them at midnight or six am, it is possible to close a door quietly.
the other one is the grumpy old phlegger in the knackered old 206 who now deliverers the papers at 6.30 and does a bit of slamming, blasts out radio 2 and also has no concept of the button on the end of the handbrake that avoids hitting every tooth on the ratchet mechanism, noisy old sod, speaks volumes about the local youth that a grown man has to drive a car to deliver papers, whats wrong with a teenager on a bike ?
It's funny my Mum slams car doors a bit but I can tell when she picks up the phone before she speaks as she gently lifts the reciever compared to my Dad and it makes a different ring. I think the Car door thing is possibly because slammers are non drivers and dare I say less mechanically minded?
stevesuk said:
I think a complete lack of mechanical sympathy, and lack of understanding of how things work/break is a good shout.
How about also, that many people seem to have no awareness of what's going on around them before they swing the door open. Some woman in a MINI convertible tried very hard to kill me this morning by flinging her car door wide open just as I was passing her. If I hadn't seen the door move out of my peripheral vision, and swerved (no time to brake), it could have been a big accident.
Am I the only one who looks in my mirror before I open the door?
I only have teeny tiny Corsa 1.0 but even I reckon I could knock a door off.How about also, that many people seem to have no awareness of what's going on around them before they swing the door open. Some woman in a MINI convertible tried very hard to kill me this morning by flinging her car door wide open just as I was passing her. If I hadn't seen the door move out of my peripheral vision, and swerved (no time to brake), it could have been a big accident.
Am I the only one who looks in my mirror before I open the door?
J4CKO said:
Someone on our road seemingly has a car with 18 doors as they generally have a go at closing all of them at midnight or six am, it is possible to close a door quietly.
There's one of them near me. I've never seen it, but the slam.... slam....
slam
slam
slam
slam
gives it away.
Sometimes I look out, and only see one person getting out of one car, so it won't be that one, but one day I'll catch them!
Andehh said:
Hah, finally...I am not alone!
Yep, she slams the doors hard enough to make me flinch. My last octavia vRS....everytime she shut the boot I shut my eyes for fear of the glass implosion...my requests to do it gently always ignored.
Thats what im getting from this thread, women don't give a sYep, she slams the doors hard enough to make me flinch. My last octavia vRS....everytime she shut the boot I shut my eyes for fear of the glass implosion...my requests to do it gently always ignored.
t what their other halves say or think. If they did they wouldn't ignore you and be a bit more carefull. Go and slam some doors in the house and see what she says then.
sleep envy said:
g3org3y said:
every girlfriend I've ever had (including the current one)
sounds ominous for her
Apart from her door slam issues she's a keeper actually!Here's the damage (broken end of the strut in the foreground):
As you can see, after the break, she pivoted the boot open using the strut against the rubber seal which is now torn/cut as a result. Unfortunately, that seal is one part and runs all around the rear o/s window. Would be a mission to replace. Am sure a bit of silicon sealant will patch it up ok.
She said she's sorry.
Plus I suspect we're now even after the freezer debacle.The End said:
J4CKO said:
Someone on our road seemingly has a car with 18 doors as they generally have a go at closing all of them at midnight or six am, it is possible to close a door quietly.
There's one of them near me.
I've never seen it, but the slam.... slam....
slam
slam
slam
slam
gives it away.
Sometimes I look out, and only see one person getting out of one car, so it won't be that one, but one day I'll catch them!
This!Someone on our road seemingly has a car with 18 doors as they generally have a go at closing all of them at midnight or six am, it is possible to close a door quietly.
There's one of them near me.
I've never seen it, but the slam.... slam....
slam
slam
slam
slam
gives it away.
Sometimes I look out, and only see one person getting out of one car, so it won't be that one, but one day I'll catch them!
Sometimes, just by hearing the amount of slammage going on, you'd think that a Tardis was being loaded up, and not a small hatchback.
Some people just seem oblivious to the amount of racket that they create. They are unable to get into a car a drive off quietly without multiple entries and exits, radio station volume adjustments, mobile phone checking with the obligatory texting, make-up application, and all whilst the engine is running.
Falsey said:
james_tigerwoods said:
I get the opposite - never pulls/pushes the door hard enough.
What I hate though is the lack of use of the pull down handle on the inside of the boot - I really hate seeing finger prints on the boot lid lip...
Keep the car clean What I hate though is the lack of use of the pull down handle on the inside of the boot - I really hate seeing finger prints on the boot lid lip...
TheInsanity1234 said:
Falsey said:
james_tigerwoods said:
I get the opposite - never pulls/pushes the door hard enough.
What I hate though is the lack of use of the pull down handle on the inside of the boot - I really hate seeing finger prints on the boot lid lip...
Keep the car clean What I hate though is the lack of use of the pull down handle on the inside of the boot - I really hate seeing finger prints on the boot lid lip...
DoubleSix said:
TheInsanity1234 said:
Falsey said:
james_tigerwoods said:
I get the opposite - never pulls/pushes the door hard enough.
What I hate though is the lack of use of the pull down handle on the inside of the boot - I really hate seeing finger prints on the boot lid lip...
Keep the car clean What I hate though is the lack of use of the pull down handle on the inside of the boot - I really hate seeing finger prints on the boot lid lip...
For instance, my mum owned her '57 Renault Clio from new, and only about 3 days before we replaced it for our current Yeti back in June, did my mum realise there was a groove inside the boot lid for the purpose of closing the boot.
And that was only because she saw me use it.
V8forweekends said:
Most people (doesn't matter if male or female) don't consider doing stuff with the minimum force needed.
Hence my need to replace tap washers every ten minutes because other people who use the bathroom (who happen to be female) insist on "turning the tap off" by going way beyond the force needed to stem the flow of water and to the point where they have applied th maximum force they can muster.
I comfort myself that most car manufacturers are able to cope with the ham-fisted and design stuff accordingly these days.
1. Secret small adjustable wrench in bathroom.Hence my need to replace tap washers every ten minutes because other people who use the bathroom (who happen to be female) insist on "turning the tap off" by going way beyond the force needed to stem the flow of water and to the point where they have applied th maximum force they can muster.
I comfort myself that most car manufacturers are able to cope with the ham-fisted and design stuff accordingly these days.
2. Tighten tap(2) just a bit more.
3. When females can't then turn them on, after much investigation, say they've overtigtened it, and the plumber will have to be called out.
4. Make them pay plumber. Who happens to be you, 'cos the plumber came while they were out.
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