Behind a locked door!!!

[HTRN]

Fixer, locks are cheap. Use them.


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[gravity]

Depending upon the lock type, you don't want one in the household with a yound child. I locked my parents out of the house when I was two with a simple slide bolt, and it took them three hours to get in. They had to get a tow truck to pull off the window bars first.

So yeah, locks+young children=bad on so many levels.

[Fixer]

HTRN:

Children should learn to knock before walking into their parent's bedroom, period.

Install your own fucking locks. I should not have to lock my bedroom door, although I have blocked the door when the situation allowed for it. Sometimes, in spur of the moment deals and the kids are supposed to be napping, locking the door isn't on the mind.

[virulus]

Parents should knock before they enter their childrens houses.

I was highly embaressed last night when my father entered MY HOUSE while I was... in the middle of something.


GRRRRRR

[HTRN]

I was talking about the kind of locks you have on interior doorknobs. You can open them from the outside with the supplied key or a very small screwdriver.

Expecting children to knock is one thing. Them doing it every time is another.

Why are you all bent out of shape?


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[Cyrus]

I have never had the "pleasure" of walking in on my parents thank god, but they did walk in on Lauren and I once, was VERY ackward.

[wocket]

My parents have only given each other little kisses - pecks, really - in our house. The walls are too thin and they'd be caught doing anything else.

Thank HOD that's all they do. They're 59.

However, I was walked in on when I was with Chris....oh lordy. That was FUN. >.<

[Vektor T. Gecko]

[quote="Catine";p="485505"]They found me under a cabbage leaf, and nothing you say will convince me otherwise![/quote]

My parents told me exactly the same thing. Maybe there's some horrible race of hyper-advanced cabbages out there, breeding human test-tube babies for insertion into the general populace. Y'know, like sleeper agents. Only working for plants to overthrow the worldwide regime of mammals.

[Fixer]

[quote="virulus";p="486069"]Parents should knock before they enter their childrens houses.

I was highly embaressed last night when my father entered MY HOUSE while I was... in the middle of something.[/quote]
I agree wholeheartedly. I knock on my parents' homes, my grandparents' homes, my sister's house, my friends' houses... I knock before I enter ANY person's home. Even if the door is wide open, I knock first. It is a respect thing. If I don't hear anything for a while and I know they are home, I might crack the door and yell to get their attention, but I don't go barging into anyone's house or room without knocking.

[quote="HTRN";p="486074"]I was talking about the kind of locks you have on interior doorknobs. You can open them from the outside with the supplied key or a very small screwdriver.

Expecting children to knock is one thing. Them doing it every time is another.

Why are you all bent out of shape?[/quote]
See above. Hopefully it will make more sense. The whole privacy and respect thing is a BIG issue with me and if I have to install a lock on any of my internal doors, the thought irritates me. It is not a difficult task to remember to KNOCK and WAIT.

[quote="Vektor T. Gecko";p="486166"][quote="Catine";p="485505"]They found me under a cabbage leaf, and nothing you say will convince me otherwise![/quote]
My parents told me exactly the same thing. Maybe there's some horrible race of hyper-advanced cabbages out there, breeding human test-tube babies for insertion into the general populace. Y'know, like sleeper agents. Only working for plants to overthrow the worldwide regime of mammals.[/quote]
That must be who the vegetarians are so busy fighting!!!! The plant-people!!!

[Princess_Lorien]

Childrens and locks arent a good combination.

I also disagree with Gravitys immature cooties act. Children should learn at an early age that a relationship is a loving and mature one, parents should be allowed to show affection. A quiet argument, a sound word to eachother if they are grumpy Raising a hand to the other parent is of course, not on.

If people did everything behind doors, their children would be emotionally crippled and incapable of having a proper relationship. Short of learning from the tv.

[Deacon]

[quote="Princess_Lorien";p="486467"]If people did everything behind doors, their children would be emotionally cripped and incapable of having a proper relationship.[/quote]
Such as loathing human contact and facing a distinct averse reaction to something as simple and positive as kissing?

[KatFreak]

Fearing the unfamiliar?

[HTRN]

[quote="Deacon";p="486492"][quote="Princess_Lorien";p="486467"]If people did everything behind doors, their children would be emotionally cripped and incapable of having a proper relationship.[/quote]
Such as loathing human contact and facing a distinct averse reaction to something as simple and positive as kissing?[/quote]

Once again, we go back to Gravities phobia about "personal space"

I agree with Deacon, I think that this is the real problem and she's just using context to justify her own phobias.


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[virulus]

HTRN,

I had the door to my house locked when my father entered and saw me and my wife. Problem is that my Dad has a key. He needs a key in case anything happens and we need him or my mother to get into our house (we are haveing a baby, so it makes sense).

Did he use it for that??

NO he got an earfull from me.

I was talking about the kind of locks you have on interior doorknobs. You can open them from the outside with the supplied key or a very small screwdriver.

Expecting children to knock is one thing. Them doing it every time is another.

Why are you all bent out of shape?

I always knocked as a child because if I did not, dad would have a fit. And dad was the one with the wooden paddle. Mom had the wooden spoon, and that hurt alot too.

actually I am trying to remember if one of them hurt worse....

[HTRN]

I guess he can't be trusted with keys, eh?

What I said before applies. Locks would have kept them out, but they had a key.

Don't mind me about locks. I live in NYC, and if you don't put a padlock on EVERYTHING, it has a tendency to disappear in a day or two.


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