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Ahh yes the revolving door. Not since the Dutch door has entering and leaving a building been so much fun.

Forgive the potential idiocy of this post but I began to think about revolving doors when I got work this morning. I thought of a trip I took to Ireland and I could not recall if I had gone through any revolving door. I don’t know if they have revolving doors over there and I am not so sure I care. However, if they do have them or if they ever were to have them, which way would they turn? In the U.S. of A we drive on the right side of the road and our revolving doors turn counter clockwise. In Ireland, Great (Modest and damn proud of it aren’t they) Britain and other nations people drive on the left side of the road. Which way do their revolving doors turn?

And what about Australia, once a British prison colony on the bottom side of the planet? Are the directions in which their revolving doors turn somehow related to the hemispheres? It has been suggested that in the northern hemispheres toilet water flows one way and in the in the southern hemisphere it is the opposite. Could this be true for revolving doors as well?

# posted by BennyHoh @ Tuesday, February 22, 2005