Shut The Door

Here’s a purely hypothetical situation. Let’s say you’re a guest and you’ve arrived after a long journey. You’re tired. You and your mate have had no rest or privacy nor much comfort at all for days on end. You’re shown to your guest room and you wearily begin to prepare for bed. Innocently enough, you happen to notice the silhouette of your spouse, who is also preparing for bed. Your thoughts are distracted and you seek to distract your spouse. The two of you begin a very comforting moment indeed.

But wait, what is that sound?

 It is the sound of your host tapping on your bedroom door, which you suddenly realize is just two inches open. “Um!” you say, too loudly to be anything but awkward. “This is not a good time.” There, that was embarrassing for everyone. Shut your door and this will never happen again. Gentle guests, an almost closed door at bedtime is not at all the same thing as a completely closed door.

Heroic hosts, consider the following entirely fabricated situation. Let’s say that you and your mate are having one of those unromantic conversations in the bathroom. One of you is using the toilet while the other one cleans their teeth at the sink. You’re chatting so comfortably that you neglect to attend to the fact that you did not close the bathroom door. You never close that door! It’s around several corners and no one has any need to come to this area of the house. No one that is, except your guest, who innocently steps into a room where they hear two people chatting and a bit of water running. Excellent, now we’re all family. Brothers and sisters, while a closed bathroom door is a proven way to deter invaders, a locked door is even better.

As many of us know, and most of us suspect, there are some things we just don’t want to know about our family and friends. Let’s all help one another out.

May the doors you open lead to pleasant spaces, and the doors you lock remain secure. May you be happy while hosting and grateful while guesting. Peace.