Thursday, September 24, 2009

Malaysia - what do you do?


You're in the bathroom. You turn to leave. You see this. You would like to exit the bathroom. What do you do?
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Christopher Q Brady said...

I love that this predicament could happen all over the world, but the title is very specific "Malaysia - what would you do?"

My guess is that the safest course of action would have been to wait until the next occupant came along to open the door. Clearly, though, that is a risky strategy. If this is a low-traffic restroom, the next occupant might not be along for quite a while. And let's face it, the time you spend waiting for the next occupant is still time spent in a dirty restroom.

A strategy I once employed when faced with this exact same predicament, albeit mine was in a laundry room, is a tactic I like to call "Bustin' Loose". At one of the apartments I used to live in I had run home to grab lunch and decided to throw a load of laundry in before heading back to work. As I turned the doorknob to exit, the knob came off in my hand. There was no way to jimmy the door, and nobody was coming by despite my loud yelling for help and the profane protestations of my situation at the time. Thankfully, in my case, there was a small square glass window (wire-reinforced) at eye level on the door. After about 15 minutes had passed, and I couldn't get someone to let me out from the outside, I reached the point where the physical integrity of my landlord's property was no longer valued higher than my need to get back to work. There was a folding table in the room, and I set it on its side in a position where one of the metal legs to the table was leaning precisely on that small window. Summoning my inner Bruce Lee (I was once a brown belt in Tae Kwon Do), I delivered a beautiful side kick to that door, which focused all the energy of my kick to the metal leg leaning on the glass.

Presto! The glass exploded towards the outside of the door, I reached through the window to open the door with the doorknob on the outside of the door, and saved the next good fellow from getting trapped in the laundry room.

While I'm betting you are a man with the decency and patience to have waited for the next occupant, the rebel in me is hoping that you opted to bust loose.

September 25, 2009 at 5:29 PM
Chris said...

wow - i wish i had your kung fu. i pinched the screw with all my strength and pulled until i could get a toe around and pull the door back. it worked, but it was much less dramatic than your solution!

September 25, 2009 at 5:56 PM

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