Yes, I would close the door and probably lock it but I am paranoid like that too I guess. At home, I close it depending on the number I’m doing. Just a quick no. 1, no need unless son is near. No. 2 need privacy. As kids were growing up, sometimes the bathroom was the only place that I got to go alone in and close the door.
YES, because it is the only time in my life that the door will stay closed if I close it. Plus, you never know when housekeeping is going to come swinging into the room.
Have you tried cleaning off the lens of your camera with a Q-Tip? I know it works for greasy fingerprints!
I do not close the bathroom door at home because what would be the point? Closed doors just beg for little boy attention. When I leave it open, they ignor me. Unfortunately, I forget this fact when they have friends over and find myself scrambling with pants around my thighs to slam the door when I hear them approach.
KEEP BELIEVING
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on April 17th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
dexter said:
Never close it!! and sometimes when i order room service I just yell “come on in”. When you check in, the first thing you do is lift the sheet up and check the mattress around the webbing. if you see any black dots, get a new room. those are bed bug poops. Im serious
I never shut the bathroom door in a hotel room. I never shut the bathroom door at home.
I wouldn’t draw the drapes if that picture is the view from your hotel room.
When I stay in high-rise hotels, and my room faces a body of water, I NEVER shut the drapes.
No. But then I can hardly be bothered to close my blinds when I change my clothes at home. And I live in a city. Er…sort of.
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on April 17th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
BrandyS said:
I never close my bathroom door when I am at home, whether I am alone, or whether my kids are around. If I have ‘company’ then I would be inclined to shut the door.
When I am at a hotel, alone or otherwise, I never close the window shades. I figure anybody who happens to be looking up to gaze upon my motherly figure through the glass deserves whatever is flashed upon them.
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on April 17th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
BrandyS said:
I never close my bathroom door when I am at home, whether I am alone, or whether my kids are around. If I have ‘company’ then I would be inclined to shut the door.
When I am at a hotel, alone or otherwise, I never close the window shades. I figure anybody who happens have the fortune (good or otherwise) to be looking up to gaze upon my motherly figure through the glass deserves whatever is flashed upon them.
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on April 17th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
Susan said:
No, I don’t.
This reminds me of a story one of my mom’s friends told.
A few years ago, she was on a trip alone w/her husband. They checked into a hotel and she decided she was thirsty. She promptly left the room to go get a soda.
When she returned, the door to their room was propped open, and it sounded like her husband was in the bathroom.
She crept in quietly, closed the door behind her, sprawled out on the bed, and yelled to him, “I’m ALL ready for you, baby! Come and get it!”
He opened the door and peered out. HE turned out not to be her husband at all, but a complete stranger! She had walked into the wrong room, the one right next door to theirs!
If I’m in the hotel room alone, at night – definitely closing the door. I don’t care if they’re under the bed – they can’t get me in the bathroom LOL
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on April 17th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
jp said:
YES, I always close the door and double lock the hall door. One ’surprise’ walk in by Housekeeping while my Husband & I were in Vegas was enough for me to learn my lesson. Scared the hell out of her too!
zomg, this makes me want to never have little boys, since most of you said “no” because of small children bursting into the bathroom.
I close the door, lock it, use it, go out, *close the door*, wash hands.
Whenever else I use it, I will knock before entering. I know, weird, right?
But I grew up with three much younger siblings and then lived with three girls in college. I knock on ANY bathroom I come too, even when I lived alone in the summer and always lock. It’s just straight up habit.
Oh, the bathroom door at my parent’s house is basically torn off it’s frame from years of a sibling yanking on it, to find that it’s locked.
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on April 17th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
annie u. said:
Shades drawn, door locked and bolted, why close the door ?
But I would say it’s just kinda nice to close the door when using la toilet when there are other people around. I mean it’s not the most noble human activity. Am I being too conservative here????
You know, I just had a similar conversation with my best friend. I asked if she closed the bathroom door in her apartment. She said she closes it “if she needs to concentrate”. Me? I mostly leave it open. I’m a little more ADD. Multi-task.
You know, I just had a similar conversation with my best friend. I asked if she closed the bathroom door in her apartment. She said she closes it “if she needs to concentrate”. Me? I mostly leave it open. I’m a little more ADD. Multi-task.
I don’t think I’ve ever been in a hotel room all by myself. But I have lived alone for a long time, so I never close the door. And sometimes when I have guests over I forget about that and sit down to pee with the door wide open. Fortunately (in this respect, at least) my bathroom is so small that I can close the door from the toilet.
As soon as I get in the room, the Do Not Disturb sign goes out, the door is bolted, chainlock goes on, drapes are closed. Makes me feel safer that way.
Takin’ a shower – bathroom door is closed,
otherwise it’s open.
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on April 17th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
amy said:
hell yes, especially when the road signs are full of bullet holes… Motel Hell..o
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on April 17th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
cj said:
It’s not a seagull or a flying dinosaur. It’s a UFO following along on Bossy’s Excellent Road Trip. They are recording it for next season’s newest reality show back in their home galaxy.
I do, most of the time, if only out of the habit of doing so at home to prevent the three year old from coming in to chit-chat during the moments I have left his zone and tried to sneak to the opposite end of our 80-foot long ranch home to have 30 seconds of privacy.
I do, most of the time, if only out of the habit of doing so at home to prevent the three year old from coming in to chit-chat during the moments I have left his zone and tried to sneak to the opposite end of our 80-foot long ranch home to have 30 seconds of privacy.
BUT a few weeks ago, my husband and I went to NYC. After months of my toddler opening the door every time I’m in the bathroom, my one goal for the trip was to go in and close the door and have it stay closed! It was glorious.
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on April 17th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
Barb said:
NO….don’t close the door. I am new to your blog but I used to live in the Northwest. I am so sorry you did not go over the pass…breathtaking is all I can say. I now live in the Southeast and miss the mountains.
Most likely not, though some one brought up the issue of stinking up the bedroom, so in that case, maybe I would close it. Not that my poop stinks of course, cause it doesn’t.
Only if I am in a hotel room in Europe where the hotel staff just walk in without knocking. Once I had a room in Germany where the toilet was right next to the shower (which was a clear glass tube) both in the middle of the bedroom. No locks on the door, people just walked in several times. I finished all bathroom duties in record time.
Well, as my first ever comment on the “I Am Bossy” blog, i think this is the best one for me to post on….
and in answer of the question I do NOT close the bathroom door in a hotel room when i’m alone. I dont close it at home unless we have company so why in hotel when im alone
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on April 18th, 2008 at 6:46 am
Betsey said:
I didn’t, once upon a time…and then there was the time I was using the facilities and for some reason housekeeping decided to come in, yelling ‘Housekeeping’ and vaguely knocking *as they opened the door*. So now I do.
I close bathroom stall doors. That’s about it. And that little latchy thingy on the outside door prevents housekeeping and the bad mens out. Even a husband with a key, if you forget and latch out of habit.
I keep the bathroom door open..so if I have to wee in the middle of the night I am sure to go in the right room..and I don’t have to open my eyes all the way…
As far as the seagull on your pictures..you sure you don’t just have a smudge on the lens?
The only time I ever close the door is for the husband’s sake (and I have to remember to do it each time). If he’s not home, then there is some small child that I need to be able to see from the throne.
That’s actually one of my favorite things about meeting someone at a restaurant for lunch – I get to go pee all alone!
I NEVER NEVER EVER close the bathroom door. I don’t care who is in my house OR in a hotel room … I do NOT close the door. It must be a phobia?? maybe??
The hotels I stay in, with their less-than-capacious bathrooms, you HAVE to close the door just to be able to sit on, or stand in front of, the toilet.
Absolutely not. 24/7/365 I have a husband, 2 kids, a dog and a cat. If in some alternate reality, I have a hotel room all to myself, I relish every square inch of aloneness. Is that a word? It is now. =) Really enjoying your road trip, by the way.
Close and lock bathroom door, always, whether at home alone, at home with people present, or away at hotel.
I have privacy issues. And peeping people issues. And hell, just issues. mk
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on April 20th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
psychophant said:
When my daughter was 2 she used to follow me around the house like she was on a leash attached to my ankles. Once I headed for the bathroom to make necessary changes for that monthly occurrence. I didn’t want to freak her out with the sight of all that “red” so I told her to stay in the hall because “I needed some privacy”. Right in the middle of tinkling she walks in, looks down at my underwear and asks “Is that you quivacy?”. I never bothered to close the door after that lesson in futility.
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on April 20th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Mama Bear said:
Yes, I close the door. Especially when they have a mirror mounted on the other side. I really don’t want to watch myself in that awkward position.
If I didn’t close the door, it would be my luck that housekeeping would pick that moment to deliver fresh towels or turn down the bed. Hmmm.
When I am home with a house full of family, I don’t even close the door.
After years of not being able to for fear of toddler tears, I’ve gotten into the habit. Besides, the incessant knocking when I do close the door is ridiculous.
So yes, my eleven year old son has conversations with me on my “throne.”
Shoot, sometimes I don’t even close the door when someone’s there.
Hell, no. And I enjoy the fact that the toilet seat will stay down and there will be no disgusting splashes on the floor!
Nope, unless there’s a mirror in an inauspicious place. I hate to see myself on the can.
p.s. I think that seagull is following you….
I do not. And, furthermore, I do not close it at home, because I live alone.
I’m lucky if I shut the bathroom door at home. So it’s definitly open at a hotel by myself.
Yes, and lock the door too. I’m a big chicken.
I don’t close it at home so why in a hotel room?
No. I usually don’t close it at home either — when I do, a kid usually comes along and opens it anyway. What’s the point?
No way.
If I am home with just Superman, or the girl, then I don’t shut the door either.
Nope. I’m doing pretty good if I remember to close the bathroom door when we have company!
No. Yes! Wait, no.
I think I have to contemplate for a bit longer…
Heck no! I never close it! I have to keep an eye on my spawn. And I go to other folks’ houses and forget and leave it open. A tad bit embarrassing…
It depends what I’m doing. Because I’m neurotic that way. HA!
Absolutely yes! But mostly because the open door makes it easier to hear the trashy cable television playing on the TV.
The solitary hotel stay: so many illicit pleasures, so little time.
Absolutely not. But mostly so I can still hear junky cable-television pleasure
A solitary hotel room is filled with illicit pleasures.
No – and I walk around with no clothes on as well! YEAH PRIVACY!
(but I don’t sit my naked behind on the bedspread. That’s just gnarly.)
xoxo Hope you are having fun!!
Yes, I would close the door and probably lock it but I am paranoid like that too I guess. At home, I close it depending on the number I’m doing.
Just a quick no. 1, no need unless son is near. No. 2 need privacy. As kids were growing up, sometimes the bathroom was the only place that I got to go alone in and close the door.
Depends on what you’re doing in there. Call me weird, but I don’t like my hotel room smelling like poop.
Yes, if I’m taking a shower (because it’s warmer that way), otherwise, no.
And your answer is…?
I don’t know that I’ve ever been in a hotel room alone!
I don’t close it at home, so why would I? Except if I’m taking a shower, I like to keep the warm air in the room with me, so then I would.
If I closed it at home, three kids would come bursting in anyway.
Generally speaking, I stopped closing bathroom doors on the second date.
Only if I’ve forgotten to put up the “Do Not Disturb” sign, because I don’t want the maid walking in on me!
YES, because it is the only time in my life that the door will stay closed if I close it. Plus, you never know when housekeeping is going to come swinging into the room.
Have you tried cleaning off the lens of your camera with a Q-Tip? I know it works for greasy fingerprints!
I do not close the bathroom door at home because what would be the point? Closed doors just beg for little boy attention. When I leave it open, they ignor me. Unfortunately, I forget this fact when they have friends over and find myself scrambling with pants around my thighs to slam the door when I hear them approach.
KEEP BELIEVING
Never close it!! and sometimes when i order room service I just yell “come on in”. When you check in, the first thing you do is lift the sheet up and check the mattress around the webbing. if you see any black dots, get a new room. those are bed bug poops. Im serious
Yes!
And I sit there and revel in the fact that nobody will bang on the other side and ask to “visit” me in there!
I never shut the bathroom door in a hotel room. I never shut the bathroom door at home.
I wouldn’t draw the drapes if that picture is the view from your hotel room.
When I stay in high-rise hotels, and my room faces a body of water, I NEVER shut the drapes.
BTW, why do hotels still have drapes and sheers?
Oh wait, I answered your question.
By MYSELF? What’s that?
#1 = door open
#2 = door closed
I keep it cracked (no pun intended but acknowledged!) so that I know if an attacker gets in the room.
Yeah, weird. I know.
Only if hiding a dead body.
Or if there’s a Crab Man gasping for breath because he’s got a stylish scarf gagging him.
Wait a minute! Those are bullet holes in that sign, right?
I want to change all my answers to “yes”
No, even at home I sometimes leave it open.
I used to…it was habit. Now I hardly ever do. My husband LOVES it when i talk to him from the toilet!
Nope.
And I don’t even close it at home (unless there are other people in the house).
Keep it half-way open.
…Uh, ye-ah.
…Blessings…
)
If the hotel was next door to that shot up road sign, yes.
YES!
In case of the old, ‘This is housekeeping’ accidental barge-in risk.
*shudder*
No. But then I can hardly be bothered to close my blinds when I change my clothes at home. And I live in a city. Er…sort of.
I never close my bathroom door when I am at home, whether I am alone, or whether my kids are around. If I have ‘company’ then I would be inclined to shut the door.
When I am at a hotel, alone or otherwise, I never close the window shades. I figure anybody who happens to be looking up to gaze upon my motherly figure through the glass deserves whatever is flashed upon them.
I never close my bathroom door when I am at home, whether I am alone, or whether my kids are around. If I have ‘company’ then I would be inclined to shut the door.
When I am at a hotel, alone or otherwise, I never close the window shades. I figure anybody who happens have the fortune (good or otherwise) to be looking up to gaze upon my motherly figure through the glass deserves whatever is flashed upon them.
No, I don’t.
This reminds me of a story one of my mom’s friends told.
A few years ago, she was on a trip alone w/her husband. They checked into a hotel and she decided she was thirsty. She promptly left the room to go get a soda.
When she returned, the door to their room was propped open, and it sounded like her husband was in the bathroom.
She crept in quietly, closed the door behind her, sprawled out on the bed, and yelled to him, “I’m ALL ready for you, baby! Come and get it!”
He opened the door and peered out. HE turned out not to be her husband at all, but a complete stranger! She had walked into the wrong room, the one right next door to theirs!
True story.
I used to, even when I was home alone. It’s only been since I had my son that I’ve stopped. So now I definitely wouldn’t bother closing the door.
Nope. Hell, I hardly close it ever.
No. That’s the luxury of being alone in a hotel room.
Besides – some creepy person could BREAK INTO the room while you have the door closed and hide under the bed and you wouldn’t know…but that’s just me.
Duh! Of course you close the bathroom door!! Who knows who could just come in!! Even if you are alone!
This does make me sound a bit schitzo…
If I’m in the hotel room alone, at night – definitely closing the door. I don’t care if they’re under the bed – they can’t get me in the bathroom LOL
YES, I always close the door and double lock the hall door. One ’surprise’ walk in by Housekeeping while my Husband & I were in Vegas was enough for me to learn my lesson. Scared the hell out of her too!
Nah … I don’t even close it at home … than again, I live by myself.
Using the toilet – no close.
Taking a shower – close and lock!
Your new book can be titled “Lessons Learned on an Excellent Road Trip”
Chantel’s comment = hilarious
And I think I agree with her!
Nope. I usually don’t close it at home either – much to hubbys dismay
I do, only cause I’m freaked that there will be a male housekeeper that will knock on the door and not hear me shout “DON’T COME IN!”
Chantel, above, wrote…
#1 = door open
#2 = door closed
I concur, and add this…
Shower = hotel room door closed, locked, chainlocked, DND sign on the door, and bathroom door closed and locked.
What, me, paranoid???
No. I get scared.
zomg, this makes me want to never have little boys, since most of you said “no” because of small children bursting into the bathroom.
I close the door, lock it, use it, go out, *close the door*, wash hands.
Whenever else I use it, I will knock before entering. I know, weird, right?
But I grew up with three much younger siblings and then lived with three girls in college. I knock on ANY bathroom I come too, even when I lived alone in the summer and always lock. It’s just straight up habit.
Oh, the bathroom door at my parent’s house is basically torn off it’s frame from years of a sibling yanking on it, to find that it’s locked.
Shades drawn, door locked and bolted, why close the door ?
But I would say it’s just kinda nice to close the door when using la toilet when there are other people around. I mean it’s not the most noble human activity. Am I being too conservative here????
You know, I just had a similar conversation with my best friend. I asked if she closed the bathroom door in her apartment. She said she closes it “if she needs to concentrate”. Me? I mostly leave it open. I’m a little more ADD. Multi-task.
You know, I just had a similar conversation with my best friend. I asked if she closed the bathroom door in her apartment. She said she closes it “if she needs to concentrate”. Me? I mostly leave it open. I’m a little more ADD. Multi-task.
When I check in with you, I swear I hear Johnny Cash singing “I’ve Been Everywhere.” I want to go on a road trip in the worst way!
Hell no, door stays open if I’m by myself. And the hotel room door is locked. Yeah, I check it before I go to the bathroom, don’t you?
Definitely sometimes.
Depends on if I am going # 1 or 2. Don’t need to stink the room up.
Why do you keep calling it a seagull, when it is quite clearly a pteradactyl.
?
I don’t think I’ve ever been in a hotel room all by myself. But I have lived alone for a long time, so I never close the door. And sometimes when I have guests over I forget about that and sit down to pee with the door wide open. Fortunately (in this respect, at least) my bathroom is so small that I can close the door from the toilet.
Your hotel room has a bathroom?
No. I’m a parent. I have no more modesty about these things.
Obviously because seagull is easier to spell than pteradactyl.
you’re supposed to close the door? huh??
As soon as I get in the room, the Do Not Disturb sign goes out, the door is bolted, chainlock goes on, drapes are closed. Makes me feel safer that way.
Takin’ a shower – bathroom door is closed,
otherwise it’s open.
hell yes, especially when the road signs are full of bullet holes… Motel Hell..o
It’s not a seagull or a flying dinosaur. It’s a UFO following along on Bossy’s Excellent Road Trip. They are recording it for next season’s newest reality show back in their home galaxy.
What is this “hotel room alone” that you speak of? I’m not familiar.
i don’t…but i rarely close the bathroom door even when i’m not alone in a hotel room (or anywhere else for that matter)
no, I wouldn’t close the door and most of the time don’t at home, unless It’s #2.
Sorry that’s gross.
I do, most of the time, if only out of the habit of doing so at home to prevent the three year old from coming in to chit-chat during the moments I have left his zone and tried to sneak to the opposite end of our 80-foot long ranch home to have 30 seconds of privacy.
I do, most of the time, if only out of the habit of doing so at home to prevent the three year old from coming in to chit-chat during the moments I have left his zone and tried to sneak to the opposite end of our 80-foot long ranch home to have 30 seconds of privacy.
For the most part, no.
BUT a few weeks ago, my husband and I went to NYC. After months of my toddler opening the door every time I’m in the bathroom, my one goal for the trip was to go in and close the door and have it stay closed! It was glorious.
NO….don’t close the door. I am new to your blog but I used to live in the Northwest. I am so sorry you did not go over the pass…breathtaking is all I can say. I now live in the Southeast and miss the mountains.
You are all framing new fears for Bossy, in the form of the Hotel Housekeeper. Bathroom door shut, but ears wide open.
All by myself? No, don’t close the door. (But make sure you have the room door closed, bolted, locked, and the DND sign up!)
No, it is a “see-gull” hovering and snapping pictures of all the men disappearing on this spree.
Most likely not, though some one brought up the issue of stinking up the bedroom, so in that case, maybe I would close it. Not that my poop stinks of course, cause it doesn’t.
Only if I am in a hotel room in Europe where the hotel staff just walk in without knocking. Once I had a room in Germany where the toilet was right next to the shower (which was a clear glass tube) both in the middle of the bedroom. No locks on the door, people just walked in several times. I finished all bathroom duties in record time.
You don’t have to worry about “under the bed”. Hotel beds don’t have an “under”.
Only for number 2.
nope, not even at home, unless it’s been a rough day or i’m trying to hide from my three year old
Nope.
I don’t close it at home, even when I’m not alone. It’s no secret what’s happening in there.
Well, as my first ever comment on the “I Am Bossy” blog, i think this is the best one for me to post on….
and in answer of the question I do NOT close the bathroom door in a hotel room when i’m alone. I dont close it at home unless we have company so why in hotel when im alone
I didn’t, once upon a time…and then there was the time I was using the facilities and for some reason housekeeping decided to come in, yelling ‘Housekeeping’ and vaguely knocking *as they opened the door*. So now I do.
Never. And I walk around naked.
It makes me sad to tell everyone this, but since I have 3 kids, I NEVER CLOSE THE BATHROOM DOOR……ANYWHERE.
I look forward to the day when I can close the door and keep it closed.
I close bathroom stall doors. That’s about it. And that little latchy thingy on the outside door prevents housekeeping and the bad mens out. Even a husband with a key, if you forget and latch out of habit.
I keep the bathroom door open..so if I have to wee in the middle of the night I am sure to go in the right room..and I don’t have to open my eyes all the way…
As far as the seagull on your pictures..you sure you don’t just have a smudge on the lens?
I tried last time we were in a hotel….but the darn door kept opening! I agree, that seagull is stalking you!
Oh yes! Because what if the maid came in? Or that REE!-REE!-REE! guy with the knife?
The only time I ever close the door is for the husband’s sake (and I have to remember to do it each time). If he’s not home, then there is some small child that I need to be able to see from the throne.
That’s actually one of my favorite things about meeting someone at a restaurant for lunch – I get to go pee all alone!
So, out of habit, NO I wouldn’t close the door.
No. In fact, I like to leave the door to the hallway open as well, just in case I suffer an aneurism or a back spasm and need assistance.
Are you on your way to the Doocery Inn?
I love Wyoming! I grew up there, and there is just nothing like those rugged mountains. Or the windswept plains. Lots of wind.
no, but for some reason i close it when i shower (let’s say to keep the steam in, yep, that’s it!).
PS: have you tried compressed air? the seagull looks like it’s under the lens.
I NEVER NEVER EVER close the bathroom door. I don’t care who is in my house OR in a hotel room … I do NOT close the door. It must be a phobia?? maybe??
Home or hotel, the same: using anything in the bathroom except the shower, door open; in the shower, door closed to keep the warmth in.
But I do lock/bolt/chain the hotel room door whenever I’m in the room.
Nope, leave it WIDE OPEN so I can hear the tv that has HBO. A treat my hubby we’re too cheap for at home.
Of course not. I don’t even close the bathroom door at home, unless there’s a guest in the next room.
Nope. I don’t close it at home either.
nope.
not at home either, unless I have guests.
Nope and I don’t usually at home either.
nope!
Yup.
The hotels I stay in, with their less-than-capacious bathrooms, you HAVE to close the door just to be able to sit on, or stand in front of, the toilet.
I’d only close the door if the room service guy was there — unless he was hawt.
Absolutely not. 24/7/365 I have a husband, 2 kids, a dog and a cat. If in some alternate reality, I have a hotel room all to myself, I relish every square inch of aloneness. Is that a word? It is now. =) Really enjoying your road trip, by the way.
Close and lock bathroom door, always, whether at home alone, at home with people present, or away at hotel.
I have privacy issues. And peeping people issues. And hell, just issues. mk
When my daughter was 2 she used to follow me around the house like she was on a leash attached to my ankles. Once I headed for the bathroom to make necessary changes for that monthly occurrence. I didn’t want to freak her out with the sight of all that “red” so I told her to stay in the hall because “I needed some privacy”. Right in the middle of tinkling she walks in, looks down at my underwear and asks “Is that you quivacy?”. I never bothered to close the door after that lesson in futility.
Yes, I close the door. Especially when they have a mirror mounted on the other side. I really don’t want to watch myself in that awkward position.
If I didn’t close the door, it would be my luck that housekeeping would pick that moment to deliver fresh towels or turn down the bed. Hmmm.
Ha!
When I am home with a house full of family, I don’t even close the door.
After years of not being able to for fear of toddler tears, I’ve gotten into the habit. Besides, the incessant knocking when I do close the door is ridiculous.
So yes, my eleven year old son has conversations with me on my “throne.”
… And, err, I’m blogging from there now.