I descend from a long line of women who never closed a kitchen cupboard, dishwasher, or closet door and a long line of men who were driven crazy by it. Picky, picky we women would say. It only takes a half second they would reply. Each of us learned our lesson about the dishwasher after a few barked shins but we were intractable about the closets and cupboards. It wasn't that all of them were always open, just those we had used since the last male sweep of the area. Recently, however, I realized...