# Beckdawrek and the bad bad bad lack of privacy **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 12, 2021, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beckdawrek-and-the-bad-bad-bad-lack-of-privacy/941892 "2021-05-12T07:21:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beckdawrek-and-the-bad-bad-bad-lack-of-privacy/941892/1 "2021-05-12T07:21:14Z")
I’m in my (MY) bathroom. With my beautiful talavera tile floor. Sitting. Doing what you do in a bathroom while you sit. Door flies open. In comes the lil’wrekker flips the nice vanity light on and starts preening and looking close at herself. I say “excuse me” She sez…“Ma I need my hair done, my roots are showing” Again I say “excuse me” She walks over and starts picking at my hair. “Oh, Ma!!! Your hair is worse” so much grey. “Ma, it looks horrible, we have to get YOU to the salon, soon!” Guess who has an appointment Thursday? Yep. You’re right. This is no way to be regular.😁 ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beckdawrek-and-the-bad-bad-bad-lack-of-privacy/941892/2 "2021-05-12T07:31:42Z")
They make these things you can put on the door so nobody can go in when you are already in there. And you already have a gun, right? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beckdawrek-and-the-bad-bad-bad-lack-of-privacy/941892/3 "2021-05-12T07:33:16Z")
I know about those locky thingys. I can’t lock the door. My diabetes is such that it’s never wise to lock yourself in. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beckdawrek-and-the-bad-bad-bad-lack-of-privacy/941892/4 "2021-05-12T07:35:07Z")
Well then, the gun may be your only recourse. I’m sure the kids have expected it to happen some day. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beckdawrek-and-the-bad-bad-bad-lack-of-privacy/941892/5 "2021-05-12T07:39:05Z")
I have preached the knock before you enter for years. The Grandwrex are even versed in it. That don’t necessarily abide my rules. But they know. The Lil’wrekker just don’t give a crap. She pretty much owns any space she’s in. Sucks all the oxygen out in a room when she enters. But, boy is she lovable. And cute. and spoiled ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beckdawrek-and-the-bad-bad-bad-lack-of-privacy/941892/6 "2021-05-12T07:48:22Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > and spoiled Can’t imagine how she turned out that way 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beckdawrek-and-the-bad-bad-bad-lack-of-privacy/941892/7 "2021-05-12T08:43:24Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I’m in my (MY) bathroom. With my beautiful talavera tile floor. Sitting. Doing what you do in a bathroom while you sit. Trimming your toenails? 😉 **Beck** , I’m sure that you look fine. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beckdawrek-and-the-bad-bad-bad-lack-of-privacy/941892/8 "2021-05-12T10:15:30Z")
Yeah. The lil’wrekkers definition of beauty is completely different than mine. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beckdawrek-and-the-bad-bad-bad-lack-of-privacy/941892/9 "2021-05-12T11:19:29Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I can’t lock the door. My diabetes is such that it’s never wise to lock yourself in. My gf laughs at the fact I lock my bathroom door. It’s just the two of us and she knows never to enter my bathroom if the door is shut. Yet, I lock it and would position a piano to further block the door, except we don’t own a piano. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beckdawrek-and-the-bad-bad-bad-lack-of-privacy/941892/10 "2021-05-12T11:30:09Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > But, boy is she lovable. > And cute. Her behavior indicates that she obviously knows it. You’re doomed. 😳 ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beckdawrek-and-the-bad-bad-bad-lack-of-privacy/941892/11 "2021-05-12T11:42:47Z")
Going into Stereotypical Guy Mode … Lots of new houses have ‘interior door lock’ keys sitting on top of the door, on the ledge created by the door trim. Which I always thought was cool. I wonder if you have/can get/can create door lock keys and stash them similarly, and universally, on/around every locking door _inside_ the house. [and then use the locks] Because I’m a big fan of _passive_ solutions (ie, those that don’t rely on well-trained humans doing something that they’re supposed to do), but well understand how medical can mean You Need Access Now. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beckdawrek-and-the-bad-bad-bad-lack-of-privacy/941892/12 "2021-05-12T12:13:15Z")
Many, many years ago when my daughter was just past toddlerdom, my in-laws were over our house for a visit or dinner or something. MIL needed to visit the facilities, and while she was seated, tending to business, my offspring opened the door, went in, sat on the tub, and asked “Whatcha doing, Grandma?” Kids - what do we do about them?? ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beckdawrek-and-the-bad-bad-bad-lack-of-privacy/941892/13 "2021-05-12T12:32:04Z")
Oldest COTU has been trying to sneak into the bathroom when it is occupied by a grandparent. I think when she was around four, I told her to knock it off. I KNEW she trying to sneak a peek at Grandpa’s bare butt. “Forget it, Kid. Grandpa’s butt is MINE, and I don’t share!” Much embarrassed giggling ensued, and the sneak a peek ceased. Advance the clock to about six months ago. I was in the bathroom taking a spit bath.\* I was partially disrobed, and was contortioning so as to scrub my various stinky parts. The same COTU busted in, and received an EYEFUL of Grandma in most of her glory! After finishing my ablutions, I dressed in my day clothes, cleaned up my mess, and then hunted down COTU#1. She was still processing what she had seen, and was deeply mortified by the event. I explained there is a REASON why doors are closed, and for the rest of her life, she needs to have the utmost respect for closed doors. “Remember: that which is seen can never be unseen!” ~VOW - spit bath is a very old fashioned term for a quickie wash at a sink, a pot, or a bucket of water. It entails soap and a washcloth, and you clean the stinky parts so as to not offend those near you. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beckdawrek-and-the-bad-bad-bad-lack-of-privacy/941892/14 "2021-05-12T19:38:20Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Sitting. Doing what you do in a bathroom while you sit. Eating a greasy pork sandwich on a stale roll out of a dirty ashtray? 'Cause that would be my first guess. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beckdawrek-and-the-bad-bad-bad-lack-of-privacy/941892/15 "2021-05-12T20:56:01Z")
You need a squirt gun. The rule is, anyone who actually enters the bathroom (as opposed to sticking a just-checking head through the door) gets blasted. Fun AND educational! If the squirt gun is too refreshing to be effective, load it with clam juice. Call it “Bigfoot Bile.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beckdawrek-and-the-bad-bad-bad-lack-of-privacy/941892/16 "2021-05-12T23:25:04Z")
😁…dang rule about the amount of characters is harshing my emoji mellow.