lol I've never heard the "on the jar" expression before. That's way cooler than just saying "ajar".
I have no shame to an extent, I'll leave the door open when I'm home alone - or if it's just my mom and I. If my dad or brother, or any other male persons are around - I am closing and locking that door.
My stairs directly face my bathroom and a toilet isn't an attractive thing to be facing you head on once you have climbed the stairs - not to mention it is a flat so my bathroom is on the same floor as every other room in the home. Whether in it or not, I still like my bathroom to be half-private.
Then there is the heating factor at this time of year; open doors waste energy.
Edit: I see most of the replies are still missing the OP's point. He isn't asking if you leave your bathroom door open when you're using it, he is complaining about people shutting bathroom doors when there is no one using them
Is it really a problem? Sure, I've tried to go into a bathroom when someone is in there, but obviously it is locked so I can't open the door and so just wait. Not sure what the big deal is. I certainly wouldn't want to keep the door open whenever it is not in use. Looks awful!
I know you can just knock but does this annoy anyone else...why not just leave the door on the jar?? :mad:
I know exactly what you mean. I'm trying to establish a 'code' with my wife whereby if either of us is in the bathroom, fully close the door. If we're not, leave it open. (We have kids, so it doesn't have a lock.) That way there's no ambiguity, no need to knock, no loitering around listening for signs of activity and no need for that un-dignified shout of "I'm in here !". Open means free, closed means occupied.
We always keep the bathroom door shut because we have a very nosy greedy dog who would eat the contents of the bin in a heart beat. Before we got him we would leave the door slightly 'on the jar' (I really like that phrase!) cos its easier to know if someone's in there or not.
What annoys me even more is when somebody is in there but doesn't close the door and leaves a slight gap!
My brother does it in the mornings when peeing/putting gel in his hair and every single morning without fail I will push the door open to go in there and the door will hit him, followed by a chorus of "WHAT THE F**K ARE YOU DOING?!?!" from him and "WHY CAN YOU NOT USE THE LOCK?!?" from me.
It's quicker and far less embarrassing to stick to the code - if it's shut someone's in there, if its open a couple of inches it's free. Always do that in my parent's house.
Not a problem in our house as the bathroom door has frosted glass, so, although you can't see what the person is doing, you can see that someone is in there
What annoys me even more is when somebody is in there but doesn't close the door and leaves a slight gap!
My brother does it in the mornings when peeing/putting gel in his hair and every single morning without fail I will push the door open to go in there and the door will hit him, followed by a chorus of "WHAT THE F**K ARE YOU DOING?!?!" from him and "WHY CAN YOU NOT USE THE LOCK?!?" from me.
I'd just go in and start running the shower and pottering aorund. He'd soon shape up.
It's quicker and far less embarrassing to stick to the code - if it's shut someone's in there, if its open a couple of inches it's free. Always do that in my parent's house.
Of course in my house, alone, who needs doors?!
You don't want to stick to the code after a gentleman has completed his morning visit. Even with the window open and vigorous use of the febreze, I find it best to shut the door:o
I don't really understand this thread, but anyway I live alone and my bathroom door is always open, even when I'm having a bath/shower, If I have family or friends who I don't have sex with then I close the door.
Great expression! I remember first coming across it in the Pickwick Papers and deciding it was much better than "ajar"!
'I was there,' resumed Mrs. Cluppins, 'unbeknown to Mrs. Bardell; I had been out with a little basket, gentlemen, to buy three pound of red kidney pertaties, which was three pound tuppence ha'penny, when I see Mrs. Bardell's street door on the jar.'
'On the what?' exclaimed the little judge.
'Partly open, my Lord,' said Serjeant Snubbin.
'She said on the jar,' said the little judge, with a cunning look."
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I have no shame to an extent, I'll leave the door open when I'm home alone - or if it's just my mom and I. If my dad or brother, or any other male persons are around - I am closing and locking that door.
Then there is the heating factor at this time of year; open doors waste energy.
Edit: I see most of the replies are still missing the OP's point. He isn't asking if you leave your bathroom door open when you're using it, he is complaining about people shutting bathroom doors when there is no one using them
Okay Mizhog, how long had you been standing outside the bathroom door before realising it was empty? Did you do the 'bursting for a pee pee dance'?
My brother does it in the mornings when peeing/putting gel in his hair and every single morning without fail I will push the door open to go in there and the door will hit him, followed by a chorus of "WHAT THE F**K ARE YOU DOING?!?!" from him and "WHY CAN YOU NOT USE THE LOCK?!?" from me.
Of course in my house, alone, who needs doors?!
I'd just go in and start running the shower and pottering aorund. He'd soon shape up.
You don't want to stick to the code after a gentleman has completed his morning visit. Even with the window open and vigorous use of the febreze, I find it best to shut the door:o
Fires always start in the bathroom:D
same here!
Great expression! I remember first coming across it in the Pickwick Papers and deciding it was much better than "ajar"!
'On the what?' exclaimed the little judge.
'Partly open, my Lord,' said Serjeant Snubbin.
'She said on the jar,' said the little judge, with a cunning look."