Do you have emergency planning at your home/apartment or farm like I have.

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Yes, I do.

No, I do not.

Sounds like a damn good idea!

You can only vote on one answer.

Countless times I have walked out of the house closing the door behind me to return later usually when I need to eat drink or have a constitutional moment to find the door locked with the dogs just staring at me wagging their butts and nubby tails wagging as I scream, "open the door dad needs to take a shit!".

So, I have a key hidden on the front porch, one in a tree not far from the house and one window permanently unlocked to crawl through once the screen has been pushed up. I have had that emergency entry through the window twice while dressed up as Willa too.

Just asking an honest question about home emergencies.

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plasticpants02 · 61-69, M Best Comment

i have the key and window thing also. and used the window very many times.

WillaKissing · 56-60

@plasticpants02 Finally, and I mean finally someone gets it! LOL

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

I don't think any houses here have that sort of lock on the front door, they are all deadlocks so you have to lock them with the key. I think that is the case for most front door locks installed in the UK in the last thirty years of more as well.

I do remember it being a problem when I was growing up though when everyone had what we called Yale locks regardless of whether they were actually made by Yale.

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ninalanyon · 61-69, T

@WillaKissing I'm pretty sure that there are still some old style 'Yale' locks left in the UK. The thing that I don't like about a lot of front door locks in the UK is that they cannot be unlocked from the inside without a key. So if you have some kind of emergency in the house, such as a fire, you have to find the key before you can escape. The justification of course is that because UK front doors have a letter box flap then a burglar could use some kind of tool to reach in and turn the handle to open the door from the inside and avoid having to break a window.

WillaKissing · 56-60

@ninalanyon You dang Brits have had centuries to burglar proof a door. LOL

I get it just got to be funny at your expense.

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

@WillaKissing That's ok, I don't live there any more! I emigrated before the country went totally bonkers.

MarineBob · 56-60, M

County sheriff lives less than 100 yards away

WillaKissing · 56-60

@MarineBob Me no neighbors for one square mile in any God given direction.

For you, now I know why you got married again! LOL Shotgun sheriff wedding! LOL

HumanEarth · 56-60, F

Of course I do.

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HumanEarth · 56-60, F

My house was built before there was roads put in

WillaKissing · 56-60

@HumanEarth Perfect! The way I wished I was instead of 100 yards from the state route!

HumanEarth · 56-60, F

Only way you're going to see me is with the Hubble Telescope that Google Paid for their upgrades

Sevendays · M

All my exterior doors are combination lock sets.

WillaKissing · 56-60

@Sevendays That is too much thinking when you are pushing cotton MR.!

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