# Recommendation for a lock **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 17, 2025, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommendation-for-a-lock/1023107 "2025-09-17T01:12:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2025, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommendation-for-a-lock/1023107/41 "2025-09-18T18:17:17Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > institution has a maintenance department and those folks include a locksmith and appropriate Medeco tooling & banks right within their organization Nah, they don’t usually cut keys inhouse, except maybe like at a huge university campus or the Pentagon. I think it’s more like how a personal car often has a dealer decal\* where a squad car or electrical utility repair van never does. Management also probably doesn’t want every Walgreens clerk or bank teller who has a problem with a lock calling the number on the key to arrange for a service call. \*Not _your_ car. Mine, either. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2025, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommendation-for-a-lock/1023107/42 "2025-09-19T03:14:47Z")
> [@minor7flat5](#): > > Locks and toilet seats. First things changed. The toilet seats? there’s little in a house that’s easier to clean than a toilet seat. I guess i eventually replaced all the toilets in the house, including the seats. But i don’t think I’ve ever replaced just a toilet seat. ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2025, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommendation-for-a-lock/1023107/43 "2025-09-19T11:23:20Z")
One sample–I bought one house, decades ago–and the toilet seats were weird squishy ones that didn’t seem very easy to clean thoroughly, with heat-welded seams and such that would trap nastiness. But I didn’t want to have the mental image of the guy who owned the house for twenty years before me seated on the throne every time I used the bathroom. Totally irrational, but there it is. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2025, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommendation-for-a-lock/1023107/44 "2025-09-19T12:15:20Z")
Yeah, i hate the squishy ones, and would replace those. But i lived here years before i replaced any of the toilets, and never gave a second thought to them having been sat on by other people. The toilets in public parts of the house get used by friends and contractors, too. 🤷‍♀️ ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2025, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommendation-for-a-lock/1023107/45 "2025-09-19T12:33:36Z")
Some people are a LOT squickier than others about that stuff. I recall threads where a surprising number of people reported they _never_ used a toilet away from home and arranged their life to never be farther from home than they could return to before needing to pee again. Color me gobsmacked at the time. ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2025, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommendation-for-a-lock/1023107/46 "2025-09-19T12:43:43Z")
I _did_ say it is totally irrational, didn’t I? Fortunately I don’t fear public toilets, but I can understand why many would be icked out enough to not use them, thereby suffering a lifetime of planning everything around getting home for bathroom duties. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommendation-for-a-lock/1023107.md?page=2)