cobysev

I actually have electric number pad locks on both doors. They’re separate locks; the back door has had one for years and I just installed a new door on the front a couple years ago.

So they technically have two separate keys, but we don’t really use the keys. I know the combo to both doors (since it’s my home), but my friends living on the first floor only know the combo to their front door.

I like it because they’re set to always be locked from the outside, so I never have to worry about whether I locked my door or not. If the door shuts, it’s locked. And I don’t need to carry a key around. Just enter the combo and it unlocks for 10 seconds.

Who has front and back doors that are keyed differently?

My house was designed to be a duplex (despite being a single house on a 6-acre country property), so the two floors have their own separate amenities. They only connect with a rickety staircase in the basement. Otherwise, they might as well be two separate apartments.

The house is embedded in a hill, so the first floor walks out at ground level in the front yard and the second floor exits at ground level in the back yard.

My parents used to rent out the first floor when I was a kid, so that door always had a separate lock. Now, I have a buddy and his mother living in the first floor while they’re trying to get back on their feet.

Their house got foreclosed on when they were 95% paid off on their mortgage, so they lost everything. And rentals are way too expensive in my area for them to afford. So they’re staying with me until they can save enough for a home of their own.

I like that they have their own key separate from my floor. I don’t have to worry about them snooping in my home when I’m not around, and vice versa. They get a sense of privacy, knowing that I’m not just gonna walk into their home.

Genuinely, thank you for the original. I see this edited into a meme so often, I couldn’t even remember what the original was.

Change “nurse” to “housewife” and you described most US military spouses. So many of them were pushing pyramid schemes… err… “multi-level marketing” amongst one another.

My wife served in the military alongside me, and yet even she got roped into an MLM scheme at one point.

I remember software in the 90s having limits on how many computers you could use an application on (however rarely enforced)

I remember software in the '90s having “limited licenses,” but operating on the honor system. Because you could just install it on as many computers as you wanted and there wasn’t really a way for companies to stop you.

It wasn’t until the early 2000s when I started seeing licenses verified through the Internet and actually limiting their usage.

Don’t forget the blue silicone wedding ring. They pushed those at the BX/PX as a way to show your marital status without taking your valuable ring to a deployed site.