@Terrik has a surprisingly cute bellybutton...
They say once you've lived together long enough, you start to resemble one another.
--Patrick
I can think of reasons... none of them good.
"I said brush your teeth, kids! How do I know? I'm your mother, I know these things."
--Patrick
Not uncommon in hotels I've seen around Asia. For example, they show up in Thailand a lot too.
My best guess is that they facilitate sexytimes.
My friend made the same suggestion, however, if the first thing you see in the morning is, say, Mr. Z using the toilet, then no. No, they do not.
Or how about the hotel my wife and I stayed at in LA... no shower curtain or door, just a half wall, looking like a castle battlement.... WTF, over?
Wait. Y'all don't have a window between the master bath and bedroom at home?? That's quite common in Oklahoma. We call it the boudreaux bay window. How else do you know if the toilet is free?
Or how else are you going to watch wrestling?
You... knock on the door and ask if they're done yet, goddamnit?
Door closed = occupied
Door open = free
Is this... is this not a universal convention?
Post was a joke, y'all. 
We don't have a window between the bedroom and bath.
We don't have a window between the bedroom and bath.So you just communicate in the morning via grunts, then?Post was a joke, y'all.
--Patrick
Yes, and no. It is the rule in my house, and most of the people that i know. But some people, I don't know why, don't like for the bathroom door be be left open. Have a couple of relatives in my wife's family that insist on closing the bathroom door when they leave the bathroom, anywhere that they go, know for a fact that they were not raised that way. Family gathering, 50+ people in a home, 2 bathrooms, they keep closing the door to the bathroom, when nobody is in there. Will get up from where they are sitting, go to the door and close it. Maddening.
My family, and everyone I know, close the bathroom door all the time. The reasoning is twofold, one is the bathroom is considered unsightly, and you don't want guests in your home randomly staring at a toilet, and two is to keep offensive smells contained. Not just the ones you're think of, but also things like perfume, hairspray, and various other things people apply in there.
Yeah, this. My dad would sometimes be stymied because while he'd be using the bog, one of the cats would show up and decide that his boxers, spanning between his ankles, would make a mighty fine hammock.
We keep the full bathroom door's closed, because our cats have a love/hate relationship with the bathtub and its curtains.
The half bathroom is where we keep one of the litterboxes, so obviously it stays open
The half bathroom is where we keep one of the litterboxes, so obviously it stays open
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If I close the bathroom door when I'm in it, the cat tries to DIG UNDER IT to get in, pulling up the carpet with his claws.
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Awww. One of ours seems to not notice if we do it. The other likes to shove her entire arm under the door and wave it side by side, over and over, until we finish.
I'm so sorry... sometimes I can't stop myself.I caught Jun kissing Santa Claus under the mistletoe last nightView attachment 18240
Yeah, y'know....Knocking on a door isn't exactly hard. Also, you know, locking a bathroom door, and having either an "occupied/free" sign outside, or just a red/green indicator on the lock. We keep bathroom doors closed as well, for reasons listed above. My girlfriend's family doesn't, and it weirds me out completely. God dammit, I'm trying to have a shit in peace, don't just waltz in here to "quickly" spray on some deodorant, mother-in-law.
Some pictures from our trip. The weather was very windy and a bit rainy, particularly when we went more to the northwestern side of the island. The worst thing about Maui is that the radio stations SUCK. If you don't like reggae, Hawaiian, or urban contemporary music then you are SOL.
The view from our condo.
Saw this little guy when we went to the Kealia Pond National Wildlife Refuge. I also took a lot of bird pictures there.
A view of Haleakala from across Maalaea Bay.
Noah at the Dragon's Teeth.
A view of Kapalua and the west Maui forest reserve at Pu'u Kukui from the Dragon's Teeth.
Molokini, which is a crescent-shaped remnant of a volcanic crater.
Maluaka beach
Saw this little guy when we went to the Kealia Pond National Wildlife Refuge. I also took a lot of bird pictures there.
A view of Haleakala from across Maalaea Bay.
Noah at the Dragon's Teeth.
A view of Kapalua and the west Maui forest reserve at Pu'u Kukui from the Dragon's Teeth.
Molokini, which is a crescent-shaped remnant of a volcanic crater.
Maluaka beach
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