locked bedroom doors

[juldea]

Fucking londo!!! :P

He has an issue with locking doors. I guess he thinks that people just randomly barge into each other's bedrooms. So whenever he enters either my bedroom or his, he locks the door behind him. Most of the time, he remembers to unlock it when leaving. Sometimes, he doesn't.

This is well and good at his house, where there's a key to the lock that sits on the doorframe.

My bedroom door has a keyless lock.

He locked me out when he left this afternoon.

I just crawled out through the kitchen window, along the roof ledge IN THE RAIN, into my bedroom window, and across my bed (getting it wet and dirty, not to mention me and my clothes).

GRRRRR.

Comments

[skybabie.livejournal.com]

I'd kill him ;) Mine has learned how to lock himself in and out of places to now (but he's going on 2 so I can't get to mad at him) but I'm getting rather good at figuring out how to open the doors with knives and other various things :P

[juldea.livejournal.com]

You realize I'm talking about my boyfriend and not a kid, right? ;)

[skybabie.livejournal.com]

Yup sure do, thats why i said I'd kill him even though I can't hurt mine, yours wouldn't live for tomorrow =)

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Ok, the way you phrased it sounded like you thought he was my kid. Heh.

[skybabie.livejournal.com]

In a way no matter how old he may be, they always are - I have a 23 month old kid and a 27 year old one ;) Somedays I'm not sure who can be worse. =-)

[kobold.livejournal.com]

He can lock as many doors as he wants. The cameras still see all

[tpau]

yoru door doesn't have that little hole in it htat you can stick a paperclip in to unlock? they usually have those so the kids can't lock themselves in...

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Nope, it is a different type of lock. No holes.

[diego001.livejournal.com]

Fucking londo!!! :P
Double-entendre much? :P

[oakleaf-mirror.livejournal.com]

You realize that a lot of your ire is hard to take seriously when your next post talks about looking at apartments together? :)

[juldea.livejournal.com]

What, I can't be momentarily mad at him? :)

[zenandtheart.livejournal.com]

I've never in my life seen a bedroom door with a lock on it.. it this normal for American homes?

[skybabie.livejournal.com]

Yup, every room in our house has a lock on the door, kitchen, bathrooms, downstairs rec room, office etc - except our sons he has the double doors in the entrance to his room and needless to say I don't really want him locking both and getting himself stuck in there as that door is different I don't think I could get him back out. :)

[zenandtheart.livejournal.com]

wow! Do people often lock their interior doors? I just can't imagine a situation where I'd need to lock my kitchen door. Our bathroom has a lock on it but I only use it because the door wouldn't stay shut otherwise.. even our toilet doesn't have a lock! Actually.. my back door lock has been broken for 7 months now and I still haven't bothered to get it fixed.

[skybabie.livejournal.com]

With an almost 2 year old we don't, I'm guessing when he starts to get more mobile and out of his bed (he went back to a crib being the toddler bed he refused to sleep in period after 2 weeks). We may have to lock our bedroom if we ever decide to do anything "physical" but that never happens so aside from the bathroom door which almost 10 out of 10x I can't lock anyway because the little one refuses to wait outside so, no we don't seem to lock anything - though I am a freak about the outside locks/windows and what not because we have been broken into before when we first moved into the area but I still think it was the moving company because they only went for things they knew where they had been left. Funny to you should mention potty locks, we had 1 for a while with him as he was big into playing in there but he quickly learned how to get that one off as well - the only one he can't get is the lock to keep himself from turning the stove knobs but I don't think that counts, almost as though we have locks for everything but never really use the oddball ones. :)

[zenandtheart.livejournal.com]

good point.. if I had a kid I'd definitely do something about the bedroom door.. even if it was just a wedge behind it!

[juldea.livejournal.com]

My parents' room could've used one. >_

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Oooh, referring to locks on OUTER doors... don't I remember you seeing Bowling for Columbine? I think so, because I remember I jumped to defend Americans as, "not all like that!" ;)

[anitra.livejournal.com]

It depends on the age of the home. Many multi-bedroom apartments, and newer homes, tend to have locks on the bedroom doors.

Basically, it depends on what the builders thought of privacy (and whether people will respect privacy). Every house and apartment I've lived in had no internal locks.

[zenandtheart.livejournal.com]

ah..interesting!

[juldea.livejournal.com]

*nod* At least in dorms/apartments. I don't remember there being locks on the doors of my bedroom at my parents' house, but that WAS A while ago...

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

The house I grew up in had locks on all the doors, but old-fashioned-key ones, with the keys mostly left in storage.

In my teenage years, I turned my bedroom closset into a "secret room", and swapped the handle mechanism for the closet door with the door to the room, so I could lock it :-)

[zenandtheart.livejournal.com]

laugh.. cool! did you keep anything in there worth locking a door on?

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

Well, some porn. But the real point was that I had a chair, lamp, and bookshelf in a "room" that I could lock myself inside for for some total alone-ness time. I even light-proofed the edges, so no one could tell if I was in there or not. Mom *hated* it :-)