Original Commentary
Sometimes it pays to be unimportant enough not to be paid time and a half.

Modern Commentary
Unrelatedly, a while back, I mentioned that the bedrooms had their own keyed locks and how we had plans to do something with that but never actually paid it off.
One of the reasons for that is that time had passed. After a few months without being mentioned, that element was no longer "in play". We didn't have any reason for Brisbane or Kimberly or Lola to bring it up again and it seemed unfashionable for us to begin a story with "Remember that thing we mentioned in passing, several months ago".
Is it odd that we're bringing it up this much later? Imagine if we instead brought it up again, in-comic, a few months later than this.- Terrence