>>>> How do those of you who can't walk normally, cope with
people who rush up
 >  a
 >>>> inadvertently interfere with your progress through a
door, or worse, thre
 > at
 >>>> your safety by yanking or pushing the door that you were
leaning on?

 >>> It is a real pain when people do that..I don't know if
 >>> there's a good answer really.  Mostly I depend on my
 >>> husband to provide "crowd control" but I know plenty
 >>> of people who don't have that type of convenience when
 >>> they are out in the world... :(

 >> Yes.  I'm one of them.  I try to look around before I go through a door.  I
 > f
 >>nobody's in front or in back, as far as I can tell, I proceed.  If somebody
 > is
 >> approaching, I move aside and let them hold the door for me.  I use a walke
 > r,
 >> so this works well unless somebody unexpectedly comes up.
 >>When I used a cane, it was a lot more hazardous, as I depended more heavily
 > on
 >> the door for stability.

 > I understand how the walker would offer a bit more
 > stability than the cane does in cases like this.  It's
 > those 'hard-chargers' that I can't stand.. They are in
 > such a rush and typically could care less about others
 > around them :(

True.  When I was using the cane at work, I had the walker, but was in a
building built into a hillside; umpteen steps at one end, one step at
another, three steps down to the restroom, so I couldn't use the walker. 
The front door was the potential killer:  It had a high step, and when
leaving, I held on to the push rail and pushed the door slowly so that I
could step down gently, get my balance, and move sideways to the railing. 
This was where there was a great danger of someone coming up from outside
and yanking the door away from me and putting me in danger of losing my
grip and falling down the steps.

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