Mysteries

There are many, many mysteries I do not even pretend to understand. Real high on that list is this:

That's the doorknob to a closed closet in our house. There's several just like it. If you look at the reflection in the tacky brass doorknob, you'll see our guest bedroom.

Think about that for a second--you can see the reflection of the room in the doorknob and the door is closed.

Oh, yes indeed, our closets lock from the outside. It's PERFECT for locking kids in the closet, if you're in to that sort of thing.

I'm not, but I often wonder if the people who previously owned this house were. I mean, SURELY the builder didn't commit that atrocity, right?

And for the record, there is one mystery that I understand completely. This:

is @SecretAgentL. If you guessed that Laura = Secret Agent L = the girl from the Eyetique commericals, you were right. I seriously hope you didn't think I would do Do Good Day without Secret Agent L. Unpossible!

Comments

[Kelley]

If you hear a disembodied voice whisper 'GET OUT' get the freak out. K?

*shudder*

[Susie]

The people who lived in my house before me did the same thing. However it was to keep the kids from accidentally locking themselves in the room or closet. My kids are old enough to know better so I have since fixed them. But maybe that is what happened who knows...

[FireMom]

LOL.

Also, she's totally awesome. :)

[swandive00]

When we were house hunting, we looked at a house like that and I thought it was bad juju. Of course, it keeps you from locking yourself out of the closet, it makes it possible to keep people in (if you're into that sort of thing), but it also makes it possible to (accidentally?) lock yourself in.

There were also these freaky lights that reminded us of the transporter pad in Star Trek. We bought a different house.

[Karen Hartzell, Graco]

Growing up, my parents flipped all the doors to the bedrooms so we could not lock ourselves in our bedrooms. I find it very odd that closets even have locks on them unless it was a storage closet in a rental home with an actual key. Our closets in our new house (15 yrs old) doesn't even have turnable door knobs, they just pull open from a latch system.

[Katie in MA]

Unpossible is now my new favorite word. And I *shudder* to think about what my two girls would do with those closet doors. Instead of shrieks and tattling that one of them locked the other out of the bathroom ("THERE'S A WHOLE OTHER BATHROOM YOU CAN USE!"), I would hear shrieks and muffled tattling that one of them locked the other in the closet. Glad they're yours. :-)

[megrcam51]

Trust me, the builders did that!! I have one on every closet in my house. Seriously, WTF? The only explanation I can come up with is that they bought those stupid knobs surplus and sure as hell wasn't going to buy any other knobs. That would cut into their profit margin by, what like $2? Can't have that!