My neighbor's kid pointed at my new apartment's bathroom door and asked 'why is the lock on the outside?'

I had to explain that the previous owner must have installed it backwards, which means you can lock someone in the bathroom from the hallway, a design flaw I'd been blindly living with for 6 months.

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grace92615h ago

Imagine the weird power trips you could have with that setup. Host a dinner party and quietly lock the chatty guest in the bathroom for a time out. It's the kind of flaw you only find when a kid points it out, then you realize you've been one wrong move away from a home made panic room this whole time.

the_nina13h ago

Never thought of it that way.