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[pencilead]

A big upcoming welcome to all of the new teachers starting the foundation program this September! Welcome to your new home. We are all in this thing together.

a bit about housing:

A pregnant lady couldn't unlock her bathroom door. She screamed pretty much all day and was found by her husband many hours later. This is due to the locks made in China.

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[veiledsentiments]

The reality is that it is getting more and more difficult to find anything that isn't made in China. And to be honest, the quality of their products is much improved... but like all things you get what you pay for.

My first thought was why would anyone lock the bathroom door when you are home alone. Personally I wouldn't have even closed the door, no less locked it!!

VS

[pencilead]

Veiled, you missed the point. She locked the door out of habit. She was trapped for six hours. Any person would be traumatized by this.

[veiledsentiments]

I didn't miss the point at all. I still find it odd that people lock a bathroom door in their own home. I would NEVER do so and can't understand why one would even develop the 'habit.' Actually this has happened to me... in the US... with a US made knob/lock mechanism. The door wasn't locked, but the mechanism broke and it was jammed. I lived alone at the time. It took me awhile, but the bathroom provided me with the necessary tools to develop some lock-picking ability. If that hadn't worked, I was going to start working on taking the hinges apart.

Yes, it was likely not pleasant, but since she knew that her husband was eventually coming home, I can't see why any mature adult would be 'traumatized.' She was certainly in no danger. Personally I would only be pissed off at how stupid I was to lock the door in the first place. After all, she did have water and a place to sit even if not that comfortable. She could have taken a nice long bubble bath... or two... leisurely taken care of all the usual female maintenance issues... and in my bathroom would have had some reading materials...

Rather like when I locked myself outside of my flat in Abu Dhabi... and no one, including the landlord keeps keys... and the country at that time banned locksmiths. (It was impossible to even get a duplicate key made.) The Indian harass finally decided to go and find one of his friends who was a carpenter to remove the door. We had to wait for him to return from work... and then find tools. That took a few hours and I managed not to be 'traumatized' while hanging out in the un-airconditioned hallway in my bathrobe in August. The shop downstairs let me have a bottle of water and you don't want to know about toilet facilities provided to the area workers.

These are the types of things that happen overseas that you use to amuse the neighbors and friends later.

VS

[Stephen Jones]

I first got locked in a public toilet at the age of six whilst my parents were listening to a choral concert. Since that time I have always checked the lock first.

As VS says it is almost impossible to get locks made anywhere else but China now. My house in Lanka I have loads of Chinese padlocks and have twice sprained my ankle climbing over the wall because it wouldn't open, as well as not sleeping on the floor outside on a couple of occasions.

[Stephen Jones]

As Veiled has pointed out Chinese products have 'invaded' everybody's budget. I would like to know where you can get locks that are not made in China.

[veiledsentiments]

If you think that any university in the US or UK wouldn't use the cheapest product that they could get for any campus housing, you haven't been paying attention.

And you DO need to work on your reading comp skills... as it seems that you were unable to understand both my posts and Stephens.

VS