tipsy on a friday night
Feb. 2nd, 2013 12:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katekatit all went well until I had to call my housemate to let me into the house because she'd chain-locked the front door. and that sent me into a PISSED off mood because it really sucks to have to call someone to get them to open the door to your own fucking apartment.
IN ONE OF THE LOWEST CRIME RATED COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD.
Also, our front door is a steel-door, with a deadbolt. (this I have a key to). Additionally, our front door can't actually be reached by walking in from the street - you have to walk around the building, through a gate, up stairs, and *then* you get to the "1st" floor front door. Delivery people can't figure it out. Fed Ex & UPS people have trouble figuring it out. We are NOT easy prey for robbers.
Yet still she insists on locking the chain lock every night. And sometimes she does it to passively agressively retaliate when she's feeling pissed at me. I'm sure tonight it was because I didn't do my dishes from last night. Or maybe she honestly thought I was at home, even though there was no evidence of me being in my room, even though I didn't come out to cook dinner (and she can clearly hear me do that since she comes out and talks to me while i'm cooking dinner every night since she's gotten back from the states).
i am so annoyed right now it's burned off at least half of the good feeling i had from hanging out at Sam's new place, trying Shochu (a kind of sake-ish thing), drinking good whisky, watching too many stupid youtube videos, and having good conversation with smart people.
dammit.
IN ONE OF THE LOWEST CRIME RATED COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD.
Also, our front door is a steel-door, with a deadbolt. (this I have a key to). Additionally, our front door can't actually be reached by walking in from the street - you have to walk around the building, through a gate, up stairs, and *then* you get to the "1st" floor front door. Delivery people can't figure it out. Fed Ex & UPS people have trouble figuring it out. We are NOT easy prey for robbers.
Yet still she insists on locking the chain lock every night. And sometimes she does it to passively agressively retaliate when she's feeling pissed at me. I'm sure tonight it was because I didn't do my dishes from last night. Or maybe she honestly thought I was at home, even though there was no evidence of me being in my room, even though I didn't come out to cook dinner (and she can clearly hear me do that since she comes out and talks to me while i'm cooking dinner every night since she's gotten back from the states).
i am so annoyed right now it's burned off at least half of the good feeling i had from hanging out at Sam's new place, trying Shochu (a kind of sake-ish thing), drinking good whisky, watching too many stupid youtube videos, and having good conversation with smart people.
dammit.
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Date: 2013-02-01 04:28 pm (UTC)Once, when my brother and I were kids, my parents went out for the evening and we put the chain lock across the door. And went to bed, and when they got home they pounded on the doors and windows but we did not wake up. They were really mad! I don't even remember how they got in, maybe my brother finally woke up and let them in...
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Date: 2013-02-02 02:13 am (UTC)the thing is i don't actually use the chain lock, so i've never locked her out of the house. for me the deadbolt is plenty safety (especially since we live in a bedroom community and have never even had solicitors come to the door in the daytime). and two of the times she's done it to me she says she legitimately didn't know I was home.... but am i responsible for telling her i'm going out on a friday night when I don't know what time i'm going to be home? i don't even do that with my housemate in LA (nor does she do that with me)
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Date: 2013-02-02 02:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-02-02 02:56 am (UTC)as far as replacing with a second deadbolt, it's a steel door, so i'm pretty sure there's special drills and stuff that you need to make the proper holes to put in a second mechanism (and it's certainly not set up for them). while i wouldn't have a problem with that, i think the cost would be prohibitively expensive. it's a good idea though.
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Date: 2013-02-06 03:41 am (UTC)Well, that kind of puts the lie to her claims that everything you do is sooooooooo loud/messy/suggestive-of-another-human-existing-in-the-same-zip-code, if she can't tell "you're in your room minding your own business" from "you're across town."
It would not be useful to bring that up. But oh, I would want to.