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I was watching an episode of CSI: Miami and in it Horatio was trying to make some sort of "safety" point. He said in essence "You always lock the bathroom door, even when nobody else is home, don't you?"

Well, *I* don't! So it made me curious - how many people lock their bathroom door? And do you do it if you're the only person in the house?

hmmm, no..but I always have my entry doors locked, even when I lived in small towns or out in the middle of nowhere.

Yes the house door I can understand. I keep that locked. You don't want a random deliveryperson or other random person to have that temptation! We live in a pretty small town too

When I lived in southern Oregon in a small town, I never locked my front door in the daytime. Here in the city it was hard to get into the habit of doing it but it is always locked.

Bathroom door? Unless you have small children who never let mom go to the bathroom alone, I can't imagine why you would lock it.

Joan

Well now that I work from home I do admit to leaving the sliding back door unlocked most of the time in the summer, to go in and out. But if we leave the house we lock up. And we rarely use the front door - that's where deliveries and such come - so that stays locked.

But yes on the bathroom door to me it's almost a safety issue. If I slipped and fell, I would want Bob to come running and help me, not to be struggling with a locked door to get through. I wouldn't have any reason to keep him locked out ...

I live alone & don't even shut the bathroom door unless someone else is here! When I didn't live alone, I rarely locked the bathroom door. Maybe if we had company.

But, I've kept exterior doors locked anytime I've been home alone for the most part. Except maybe the back door in the daytime.

I not only lock the bathroom door but i have two locks on my bedroom door with a butcher knife on my night stand.
i live in a low income housing project with a high crime rate.
scared yes i am

I'd be the same way, Rosie. When I was younger and would stay home alone, I'd have knives and hairspray by the bed and put booby traps by the windows & doors. (Stacks of stuff someone would trip over so I could hear them.)

I lived in small towns then & really the only reason I did that was I had an active imagination and watched too many scary tv shows and movies and read too many scary books. Oh, and listened to all those scary nighttime stories!

And, I still take safety precautions others might not--I always lock my car doors, try to be aware of my surroundings and so on.

now a days you have to be careful, just to much crime, we even have safety screens on our windows, that don't stop them eighter

I never lock the bathroom door unless the grandchildren are in the house.
As for outside doors - if I am alone, they are locked.

Rosie, I think it is a very good idea to have a strong lock - bolt lock - on your bedroom door. I had never heard of it before until one saved a friend's life. Her father had always put bolt locks on all the bedroom doors and put one on her's when she moved out.
A rapist broke into her house through the sliding door (locked), took a knife from her kitchen and proceeded to try to open her bedroom door. She woke up and saw the handle turning. Then he tried to force it and finally tried to kick it in. The bolt lock held. She had a gun in the bedroom. The intruder heard her call 911 and got out of the house, dropping the knife in the hallway. She didn't have to use the gun.

The police told that the rapist had been in the area and injured some women. They didn't put it in the newspapers - bad publicity, I guess.