Open, or Closed Door policy at your house?

What I'm wondering is, is this apropros of nothing or what did someone say (or do! *squick*) to you to kick off this line of thought?

Open, or Closed Door policy at your house?

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I live alone so...open.

escritora said:

I live alone so...open.

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Ditto! No problems.

I thought this would be about the FRONT door.

Closed. I have two rules: call before you come over, and call before you come over.

For the other, if you want an audience, rent an auditorium.

Hehe. Closed if other people are around. I don't want anybody watching me!

Not only closed, but in 20 years of marriage, my husband has NEVAH heard ANYTHING...and if it's REALLY bad...I make him go for a drive...or blast the music...CLOSED DOOOR!!!!

When I was a kid, I had a neighbor I babysat for & they didn't have any doors on their masterbath. Ick, uber ick...ick..icky icky...blech...disgustimungo!!! They would just go...right there...in front of one another...absolutely beyond foul!

huh.

thankx for making me feel like a weirdo, you guys.

maybe the open doors go with my open mind. yeah, i'll bet that's it.

We're civilized at our house, thank you. We found an abandoned Port-A-John and put it in our front yard and we always close the door when using it since the police made us.

No, some of us are just anal--no pun. When I was in labor, and hooked up to more tubes than I had veins to support, I...er...had to...um..tinkle...(gads, I'm dyin' here)...and my husband had to walk me to the bathroom in the room...and roll along the bags and tubes so I wouldn't stumble over all of it...and he swore it was okay to have the door open...I began to cry...I was going to hold tinkle, baby, and all until that damned door was as shut as possible...bless his heart...his arm was nearly cut off, closing the door as hard against it as he could...and he began singing this awful rap song, spitting and all, so he wouldn't hear tinkle hitting the water--another of my absolute horrors to be heard--and no, he doesn't tease me about it...some things a man knows...he just KNOWS he will die in his sleep if he EVAH mentions that most horrific moment!!!!!

III said:

We're civilized at our house, thank you. We found an abandoned Port-A-John and put it in our front yard and we always close the door when using it since the police made us.

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Thanx.
Just choked on tea....kids pounding my back....I'll....be....back...can't breathe...

thanks, inky. i feel better. it's a little clearer which one of us needs therapy....

tip toes away quietly....then RUNS

Open if it's number 1, closed if number 2. No idea why, but this is how it turned out.

Of course, once we have kids we'll be switching to a strict closed door policy.

When I'm home alone, door open, sometimes. If someone (including my 3 year old son) is in the house with me...door closed. And if it's someone besides my son, I close my bedroom door and then the bathroom door (I have a bathroom off the bedroom in addition to the main bathroom).

When I was married? Door closed...always. I don't care how much I like someone, I don't want to know what you're doing in there...nor do you need to know what I'm doing. They put doors on the bathroom for a reason!

My husband and I have been together for too many years for there to be any secrets between us. He rarely closes the door, unless someone else is here. Sometimes I close it, sometimes not, but yes for me also if someone else is in the house.

Unique said:

thanks, inky. i feel better. it's a little clearer which one of us needs therapy....

tip toes away quietly....then RUNS

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You know...everytime I see this tongue thingy...it makes me...er...um...is this the erotica thread? No? Oh. Yeah...uh....nevah mind!

It suddenly dawned on me that we're having an educated poll discussion regarding shit.

Either I'm being punked, or this is slowly turning into South Park.

Closed: definitely, all the time, closed. Bathroom time is alone time in my house - which policy may stem from growing up with 3 younger siblings and a horde of younger cousins, I dunno.

CLOSED!!!!
Even when I was married. CLOSED!!!!

Even when the kids are not home...

CLOSED!!! (the cats will 'regard' you if the door is open. It is bad enough that a trip to the bathroom always ends with at least one cat sitting outside the door when you are ready to leave)

And at work I've been known to travel to other floors if the restroom is occupied....Yes there are doors to the stalls.

AND III....we put our porta potty in the BACK YARD behind the shed.

Front Yard Indeed!

Dare I call III a hick?



Hick.

They put doors on the bathroom for a reason!

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What's going on in my closet then, missy! My closet has a door as well.

OH, Gawd..the cats...how could I have forgotten 'bout the cats. I have one, my old man--I've had him for 16 years--that has bathroom radar. If I get up to get water, he remains comatose. Somehow, he knows if it's a bathroom run. He jumps down from heating pad--don't ask--and makes a beeline for the bathroom...his belly swaying side to side, sometimes even skids 'round the corner on his side...then cuddles against my foot, lies down, and waits out the...um..well...you know.

And, if I make the mistake of getting to the bathroom and shooing him out? OMG...he scratches at the door, howls like a bitch in heat...it's horrific...his howling sounds like a child screaming...I'm surrounded by neighbors that are cops...I just KNOW one of them wonders what we're doing over here....

And don't get me started on the perv cat when I take a bath...the only time fat ass jumps anywhere without assistance is to sit on the ledge of the tub, and watch, and occassionally bat at tits...bastard!

What?
WHAT?
Y'all don't have these issues?
Um....I guess it's safe to say I just lost cool points, eh?

Personally, I think this cat was my husband in a past life.