Holding open doors is the practice of reusing the energy
expended by opening a door by allowing a subject following the
Primary Door Opener to pass through the same doorway before it
has closed. The process has spawned such terms as the Holder and
the Recipient which describe the participants of this phenomena.
Their combined social experience is also often referred to as a
'social transaction' and thus both parties are susceptible to a
pleasant human experience as well as awkwardness and in serious
cases, clinical hysteria. First Known Incident In 1581, after
having "fun" on the high seas in "exotic lands", back home Sir
Walter Raleigh became a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I. A famous
story tells how Raleigh spread his cloak across a puddle so her
majesty could walk over it without retaining water in her shoes.
Improving on his 'valiant and cloak-spoiling' incident Raleigh
invented the first recorded act of chivalry towards 'E. the
First' during a pleasant promenade along a corridor in her
majesty's palace.