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Originally Posted by SlowToady View Post

+100 on the door slam. I made that mistake one time, let someone close their own door. Now, it's force of habit that I get the door, open and close, for every single girl that gets in. Not to gender-type, but it generally seems that girls do it. I guess the SUV doors are heavier? Guys get a firm "DON'T SLAM MY DOOR!" Sometimes I even went outside at night, and opened and closed the door just to hear "that sound."
I've actually demonstrated to people that if you just close it lightly, it clacks shut like a vault door. You can actually feel the mechanisms through the door handle. I've explained it a million times to people, and it just doesn't seem to sink in; my most recent ex-GF, who drove a Grand Cherokee, slammed it every time, and gave a bashful "sorry" right away (she was the kind of girl that found acts of chivalry, like opening doors for her and ordering for her at a restaurant, to be archaic and sexist).
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