Originally Posted by
kaptain_zero
While I close the door, and Mrs. Zero has learned NOT to enter, when she knows I'm shaving, I do not to lock the door for one simple reason. If something should happen, a slip, a fall, I drop of the razor and lop off a toe or get a nasty laceration.... I'd prefer it if the paramedics didn't have to break down the door to get to me. There is also the bit about Mrs. Zero finding me, BEFORE she cashes in on my life insurance, thus making the 911 call.
It IS true that this might prevent me from being able to phone in dead to my employer on Monday morning, but, I rather like the idea of getting in a few more shaves in before I give up the ghost.
My strop hangs on the bathroom door, not a good situation if the door swings open while I'm stropping my razor, so this is what trained Mrs. Zero to not enter. She could hear the zip, zip, zip of me stropping. After that, she always did a polite quiet knock on the door before barging in.
Most bathroom doorknobs have an easy to defeat lock... usually a small hole in the centre of the knob on the outside. A nail or other thin item can be pushed into the hole and it trips the lock. Sadly, most people don't seem to know about such things.....
Regards
Kaptain "Better safe than sorry.... " Zero