How to stop instinctively apologizing to strangers in…
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How to stop instinctively apologizing to strangers in public
I had a bizarre interaction getting on the elevator in my building. For context, our "door close" button responds immediately when pressed. (I know most elevators are not like this.)
Right after I got on, some guy in the elevator pressed "door close."
But, there was a woman behind me who was also getting on the elevator. The doors squeezed in on her as she stepped onto the threshold. She pushed the doors apart and, by instinct, I said, "oh, sorry!"
Problem is, that wasn't my fault at all, yet the woman may have thought I was responsible for the doors closing on her. Meanwhile the guy who actually pressed "door close," knowing others were still getting on, glanced at me with an evil smile that made me think he was some combination of being on the spectrum and a sociopath. Ugh.
Any tips for how to better handle a situation like this?
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I had a bizarre interaction getting on the elevator in my building. For context, our "door close" button responds immediately when pressed. (I know most elevators are not like this.)
Right after I got on, some guy in the elevator pressed "door close."
But, there was a woman behind me who was also getting on the elevator. The doors squeezed in on her as she stepped onto the threshold. She pushed the doors apart and, by instinct, I said, "oh, sorry!"
Problem is, that wasn't my fault at all, yet the woman may have thought I was responsible for the doors closing on her. Meanwhile the guy who actually pressed "door close," knowing others were still getting on, glanced at me with an evil smile that made me think he was some combination of being on the spectrum and a sociopath. Ugh.
Any tips for how to better handle a situation like this?
#relationships
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