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I have just been accused of being a door slammer.
I am not a door slammer.
I may not be the gentlest of door closers, but I am not a slammer.
Slamming implies a certain anger or violence or cruelty in the closing act.
I close doors in no such way.
I merely close doors with firmness and insistence and certainty.
When I close a door, that door is closed.
That is all.
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Once, when I was in a car with a guy I was told, "You must have grown up with a car door that was hard to close." After my confused look, he further explained, "You slam the car door, but not other doors."
ReplyDeleteThe truth is, I had grown up with several car doors that were big and heavy and hard for a child to close, but I was not aware that I had transferred the practice of "making sure the door was shut tight" to every car door in my adulthood. But, I like to agree with you, th., that it's not slamming the door, it's shutting the door with certainty.
His comment made me carefully aware of my door shutting for the next, maybe, three days... and then I forgot about the comment, until now.
I wonder if I am still a loud and forceful car door shutter, and I wonder if I annoy every person who gets into a car with me with my loud car door shutting.
Yes you are a door slammer! I have lived with you for almost six years, you slam doors.
ReplyDeleteIn reply to your second-to-last line.
ReplyDelete"When I have nothing to say, my lips are sealed.
Say something once, why say it again?"
I, too, am accused of being a door slammer. It is entirely untrue. I merely seek to ensure that the door is securely closed.
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