Since we came to our house, we have named some of our rooms. Some normal (we simply call the kitchen "the kitchen") some not. Like one big room we call "the computer lab" even though there are no computers there. Hudson just called it that since someone has some extra desks stacked there. One room we haven't figured out is "the torture chamber". This little room had no door knob on the inside an a chain lock on the OUTSIDE of the room. Just seems like the kind of place people would get locked in for some kind of punishment.
Well, the inevitable happened recently, Bethany and Hudson went in there while playing and shut the door. Since there is no knob inside, they couldn't get out. I went to the knob that did exist and turned it and it turned. But the mechanism inside didn't. Not a good thing. After taking a screwdriver to the outside we were able to get the door open with little or no emotional scarring.
So I took the knob off, then had the bright idea to swap it with our bedroom knob since it won't lock and I can put the new one in our bedroom and we'll have a lock. The knob from the bedroom door went fine to the torture chamber. Then we went to a local store to buy a new knob with lock. No problem, got it for $3.75. Key and all! Yeah for privacy!!
Except when we got home, the new knob mechanism is too small. So we went to another store. Everything is either too big or too small. Go to another store. Same deal. Go back to the original store. Same deal. Too big we can find, too small we can find. Multiple pieces we can find. A match for the hole in our door and the holes in the door frame? Nggak ada (it sounds a lot like "ain't got it")!
My mind runs to Lowe's or Home Depot with aisles and aisles of knobs. All designed to fit the same hole no matter who made your door. Conformity? Uniformity? Universality? Privacy? Nggak ada!!
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