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Stop Making Doors to the Grocery Store

Please stop making doors to public places like grocery stores, gas stations, and malls. For the love of God, you can take a bus if you can’t drive and catch a taxi if you can’t ride. Using doors for little inconveniences has never been a good idea especially when they’re unregulated.

Now, I’m no public official, but I am very experienced with doors and what too many of them in one place can do. Being able to walk twenty feet to get to your favorite hangout spot may seem cool but it's not. In fact, it could cause another hundred or so missing persons posters to be plastered around town. To rot away in the rain as a third of said persons are never seen again. 

The number of times I’ve been in a grocery store just shopping around. Only to notice someone peeking around a corner that wasn’t there before. Is astronomically higher than it was a few months ago. All because of some video shared around the internet for the past few weeks. With steps on how to create a “shortcut”. I can hear all of you complaining now. How this little discovery could change the world forever. It already has. There’s a reason why it's not used. Now, initially the problem won’t stand out to you if you’ve created one of these shortcuts somewhere in your house. After following all the steps to make one you’ll open it only to find a plain room or hallway. They usually lead around a corner at some point or are long with an adjoining door at the far end. Which will lead to the desired location.

The issue arrives when more than one door starts showing up. Or maybe an extra branch in the direction of the hallway. That leads to more passageways and more doors. Or god forbid a staircase. 

This might cause you to panic a bit. This isn’t what was shown in that video. There's not supposed to be this many ways to go. Why are there weird sounds coming out of it at night? This isn’t what you signed up for. But you did, and that stupid video doesn’t show a way to undo what you did. So now you’re stuck with the spooky maze door. Without a lock, living in your closet. 

I don’t know off the top of my head how to undo the door ritual, but will share a tutorial if I manage to find one. If I don’t just know you shouldn’t trust the first one you see. More often than not they’re made by individuals who want to make your problem worse.

In the meantime, I’ll list some dos and don’ts:

Do try and leave a trail behind you even if you’re not going that far. Thick yarn or rope works best. Make sure to keep one end secure on the side of your original door that’s in your house. Tying it around the doorknob and leading it through is one of the best ways to do this. 

Do keep the door open behind you when you enter. It’ll lower the risk of something going wrong if it turns out you’re not alone in there. 

If you feel like you’re not alone, you’re not. Leave immediately and close the door behind you.

Do barricade the door if it's not in use. Doesn’t matter if it locks or not, just do it. Chair under the doorknob is a great start.   

Do mark both of your doors with permanent marker, paint, or anything else that will not come off. Sticky notes or duck tape won’t work. 

Don’t open the door if you hear anything from behind it. 

Don’t open any other doors besides the two you know you made. 

Don’t go down any of the branching hallways.

Don’t go looking for your other door if you’ve lost it. Sucks to suck.

Most importantly; do not go down the staircase. If you see a staircase. Turn around and go back home. Doesn’t matter if it goes up or down. Or if it just so happens to be an escalator. Do not interact with it. Don’t even look at it. Whatever made it may be looking back.