Back when I was delivering pizzas in college we informally surveyed the number of times each driver knocked. The answer was all over the place from as many as seven to one sociopath who only knocked once.
“Shave and a hair cut, two bits!”
Luckily that wasn’t a problem at the University of Chicago.
So I wasn’t supposed to fling the door open, turn on the lights and yell out, “Hey! I found your missing sock!”?
Some people manage it.
I’m sure there’s a great joke or story there, but boy, that sailed so far over my head I didn’t even hear the whooshing noise. May as well have been in orbit.
Yeah, do tell. I spent some time in Chicago dorms in the late 60’s (there is no glory for me in that story, so I’m not going to tell it) and everyone I knew there was very nerdy and backwards, including me.
Exactly! That’s why it wasn’t a problem. No sex, no need to warn your roommate. (I was in Broadview dorm in '88-'89, by the way…mostly single-person rooms, because it had been an old hotel).
Or, as the Perfect Master put it:
That’s sort of a relief, I thought I was so backwards I wouldn’t have recognized sex if it was happening in front of me.
I wished for a single-person room, two people in our dorm rooms were definitely in the position of having to walk sideways to get past each other (I don’t remember the name of our dorm, it was on a corner at the northern end of campus, across the street from a fire station, and there were 8 residential floors divided into four 2-floor “houses.”)
Pierce? That’s where we ate.
Yeah, that sounds familiar. Dining hall was on the street level floor, IIRC. Along with the tiny TV room, which was always jammed on Star Trek night. Anyway, I think that building has been torn down, at least I can’t find it on a street map.
I think you’re right — it’s gone! Replaced by the “Ratner Athletics Center,” it seems. Or that parking garage next to it.
Okay, thanks, folks, for letting us indulge in this hijack (hey, at least it’s Cecil Adams-adjacent…)
Med school there. International House. Met my now wife there! So … well … 
I House! Yes, the one part of campus full of cool people, by definition.
I lol-ed!
Lol. I was at a square dance convention last weekend, and a friend left the lobby (where we were eating lunch) saying he wanted to take a nap. He was back 10 minutes later, looking a little antsy. “You’re not napping…”
His roommate was in flagrante, but had not put a sock on the door, or even thrown the deadbolt. He just used that latch thing that lets the door open part way. Oops.
One of my dorm roommates had this doohickey, which he demonstrated to me at the start of the school year; it could be attached to the door, and essentially keep someone outside from being able to open the door, even with a key. it featured a little “flag” that protruded past the door jamb, next to the doorknob, to signal that the room was in use, as it were.
He considered himself a ladies’ man (I’d known him the year prior to us being roommates), but he went through a drought during the year that he and I shared a dorm room. However, my girlfriend and I made use of that device several times…
The hell she did. At least, not around the porn issue. You can just look at her posts in this thread (that was around the time I decided to ignore here so if she’s improved, good for her, but don’t claim she’s always had good grace. Like fuck she has.)
I was there… so by definition not completely full of cool people.
That is quite an entrance into a 5 year old, 1,000 plus messages spanning thread that clearly deserves a nomination for:
(what) were they thinking?
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Quite a headscratcher…