I can't stand it when people aren't polite. I was raised by my parents to say my "please and thank you's", and I (too often) assume that everyone else was raised that way as well. However, my experience so far, particularly at UW-Madison (and I have no idea why) has been relatively bad in this respect.
More specifically, I get really irritated when I hold the door open for someone and they don't say thank you or if someone is directly ahead of me and they don't even make an attempt to hold the door open, and it gets slammed in my face. I ALWAYS say thank you if someone holds the door open for me, whether or not they look at me to acknowledge it. I even do it twice if it's a double set of doors, although I feel kind of dorky saying thank you within 10 seconds for the exact same thing. However, I do it. It's common courtesy.
Common courtesy, people, common courtesy.
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