Come on people!- Only one ‘like’ on Post #7?
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dou·ble en·ten·dre
do͞obl änˈtändrə,ˌdəbl änˈtändrə/
noun
a word or phrase open to two interpretations, one of which is usually risqué or indecent
Knock and enter. My husband, who has shared my bedroom for 30 years, AND shared the mortgage, has learned to knock before opening the door . It is courteous. In our home if my door is open, anyone walking by or even people outside in the vicinity of our hall window can see right in, and I’m sure in many dorms if the door is wide open people can see in. There are plenty of non creepy reasons why a person could be changing in their own room and should be given the courtesy of a knock and enter by the roommate so as to prevent them from becoming an unwitting flasher.
What “unwitting”?
Sorry, I dont feel knocking is necessary when entering your own room. The key alone to open the door should be enough to know somebody is about to come in.
I believe this guy knows exactly what he is up to. I’m pretty sure the majority of roommates know each others schedules enough to know that at XX time so and so roommate will be coming back.
If a person is standing stark naked in the middle of his room or her room, changing into band uniform before a basketball game, the whole world shouldn’t have a view. This roommate is a pig. However, just because you are entitled to do something doesn’t mean you should be rude. Barging into a shared room is rude. It takes less than a second to k ok once before opening the door. Also, I once posted here about the time my husband opened the door as I was bending down to pick something up and smashed me in the face. Swipe cards don’t make enough noise to alert anyone and most of the dorms my son saw this application season have swipe cards.
Just wait til he brings friends over.
I agree the friend’s son should knock first.
No one’s civil rights are being violated by knocking on a bedroom door you share with another. And it takes a second. Just a considerate thing to do. Sheesh.
However, it is also likely that - since it’s happened more than once - that the roommate WANTS to get caught.
And if that’s the case - well, that’s kinda… well, maybe creepy.
This is perhaps one instance where the old adage — If you can’t beat 'em, join 'em — would not apply.
In what sense is this an unusual roommate problem? Unless the roommate was deliberately trying to get caught, it seems like the combination of nothing too remarkable and bad luck.
Standing in the middle of the room in the middle of the day? That’s not unusual? Yikes!
What a jerk…
A for effort, Madison.
LMAO I’m a sucker for puns. Why was the roomate ‘petting the snake’ in the middle of the room? Maybe there was a webcam the friend’s son didn’t see and the roomate was giving a ‘show’. I just hope their room doesn’t have a carpet.
In all my years of having a rower, a baseball player, a band kid and just a semi-normal teenage boy in the house along with friends I’ve not encountered issues with guys being shy about dropping trou anywhere in front of anybody. Sister is usually trying to get the kid to stay in his room while changing (to no avail)
Swipe cards…forgot about those. No noise. Still, don’t think one “should” have to knock.
They can certainly come to a meeting of the minds about whether that would solve the … interruptus of it all.
A room divider?
In talking with my friend about this at lunch I got a clarification. The knocking is irrelevant, my friend’s son was in the room when roommate started to entertain himself.
Wow… um…
Time for a roommate change, pronto.
And that guy needs a single so he won’t expose himself to other potential roommates. This is more than awkward, I’d argue its sexual harassment/indecent exposure.
jmnva06: Okaay. There is no changing that. I’m with doschicos.
Sounds like drugs or an extreme mental health issue.