Locking Bathroom Doors

[codeerror]

Nope, It's never locked.

 

[scains]

We don't have a lock on our bathroom door. There's no handle at all anymore and the door doesn't even properly shut because my sister got stuck in once... yes with the door unlocked.

 

[gameboy666]

it depends, sometimes I leave the door open. But I always lock it when I shower.

 

[ibill1]

I never lock the bathroom door. The bedroom door, yes. I don't want someone attacking me while I'm asleep.

The human condition is a marvelous thing, how we see things that is. I'm the exact opposite about the bedroom door. I can't possibly sleep with the bedroom door locked or even closed. I would feel that someone could break in and I wouldn't know it. With the door wide open, I feel I would hear anyone who tried to get access to the house. I know it's a false since of security but I'm comfortable with it.

 

[DonQuixote]

Our master bath has a non-locking pocket door and, due to space considerations, the cat box is in the master, too.

Sooo, close bedroom door but not latched, leave bathroom door cracked enough for the cat.

Powder room - not usually - too small, use the ambient light from around the corner for quick trips, rather than turning the light on. Sit down, Absolutely.

 

[Telstra]

I notice that I lock bathroom and lavatory doors when I am in there, even though I now live on my own and I know that there is no risk of anyone barging in.

Question: Do you you lock bathroom/lavatory doors when you're in there even though you live alone, or know that your partner/roommate/housemate/family are out and there is no chance of them returning any time soon?

I don't look bathroom doors when there is no one around.

 

[Ranchman]

I never even shut the bathroom door when I'm alone - when company comes I shut it but never lock it .

That's an interesting point about a closed bedroom door. I feel the same way - I feel much safer with it open even though my bedroom is way on the other side of the house from the front and side doors.

 

[step49]

When I'm alone, I usually leave the door open. When people are over/my housemates are here, I'll close the door, but don't usually lock it.

 

[josher]

My bedroom is en suite, and if I'm home alone both the bedroom and bathroom doors are always open.

If I have guests, I close the beroom door, but I'd never close the bathroom door.

Same with the half bath downstairs.

 

[AlmondMilk]

I normally did when I was on my own. I always do when I poo though. You don't want the smell going through the whole place! eww

 

[Yooper]

At home, we close it but don't lock it. Closing it means "privacy please".

Lex

When home alone the door doesn't even get closed. Or when showering, I leave it open.

The door on the upstairs bathroom in the Monstrosity in Michigan hasn't closed in like forever (the house has shifted) and I've been entirely too lazy to fix it. We only use it for the overnight trips anyway...there's no shower and the bathtub is old and nasty.

The downstairs one there closes but doesn't latch (latch has been busted since the 70's), you have to prop it closed with a doorstop (currently a can of paint) so it is a pain to close it. If you don't prop it closed the door opens itself.

 

[Beachguyj]

Since I live alone I never lock it. Sometimes I don't even close it all the way. When I lived with my parents I always locked it even if they were not home.

 

[MidnightPrism]

Always shut and lock even if I am alone.

 

[BINOWGAYLATER]

OMG- i was gonna write a thread about this a couple days ago..
I wish ADROCK was here to impart his wisdom --
Apparently this is a "psychological" question - and the actual "learning" is not WHAT you answer - but WHETHER you even CHOOSE to answer.
So.. please continue --- everybody spill !!! I ain't saying a word (ATM)

 

[Red Storm]

I live alone so just close the door and not all the time. I lock it if i have someone over.

 

[Edward Twinkletoes]

I notice that I lock bathroom and lavatory doors when I am in there, even though I now live on my own and I know that there is no risk of anyone barging in.

Question: Do you you lock bathroom/lavatory doors when you're in there even though you live alone, or know that your partner/roommate/housemate/family are out and there is no chance of them returning any time soon?

To me, it's like the seatbelt. You may never need it but if you don't get into the habit of doing it, the one time you need it, you'll be fucked. I had too many embarrassing incidents with unlocked bathroom doors as a kid. As a result, I always lock the door.

 

[DonQuixote]

OMG- i was gonna write a thread about this a couple days ago..
I wish ADROCK was here to impart his wisdom --
Apparently this is a "psychological" question - and the actual "learning" is not WHAT you answer - but WHETHER you even CHOOSE to answer.
So.. please continue --- everybody spill !!! I ain't saying a word (ATM)

It is amazing the level of personal information we will share on this forum with each other, isn't it?!

 

[Swellegant]

The only time I leave the bathroom door open, I am doing so consciously to celebrate having the house to myself. I'm actually saying in my head (and sometimes aloud) "Haha, I can crap with the door open 'cuz I'm alone!" But otherwise I habitually lock it. I have a peculiar horror of being walked in on.

Same with my bedroom. If I'm going to be naked, sleeping or changing or masturbating, that door is closed and locked unless I know nobody else is home. And even then I push it to.

My Grandmother is the exact opposite: my Grandfather hated closed doors, and Grandmother got inured to just leaving any door slightly ajar, even in the bathroom. And we all learned the signal that ajar means someone's in there while wide open means come on in.

Unfortunately, some people in my family have no sense of what other people want to keep private; sure you won't walk through an ajar door if your mother is in there, but if it's your kid you have every right. I've been locking the bathroom door ever since my father came in on me having diarrhea and took a picture with his new camera.

Oddly, it was a very flattering photo. But I still lock.

 

[Alpha1851]

I've never locked it. Why go to the trouble? If someone really wants in, that little button isn't going to keep them out.

Yes, but if the door is locked, the intruder will make a lot of racket trying to get in which will give you time to phone for help, climb out the window (uh, naked), or arm yourself w/ your heaviest shampoo bottle and prepare for battle.

I lock doors when I'm alone in a room, and don't when I'm not. In my household, we just always locked our bedroom doors and the bathroom doors. Also, I've lived in the dorms, in a sorority house, and then in an apt. w/ four other roommates, so locking doors is a longtime habit.

I never thought about it before, but it's interesting.

 

[DonQuixote]

There are times I wish I could lock the master Bath door. Our kids got too used to using our bath because it was the nice one. 2.5 baths and 1.125 get used!

Never happened at my folks. Oh, we permissive parents.