Over the weekend, I managed to lock myself out of a bathroom in my house. Unable to find the little key that comes with those push-button door locks, I resorted to using a paperclip to pick the lock open.
Okay, okay, I appreciate that it’s not really picking the lock when the lock is designed to be disabled by sticking a thin metal shaft into the lock, but still, I felt pretty cool. Still got my lock-picking skills. Ha-ha.
Entry gained to the formerly secure bathroom, I thought about the development of the paperclip as a lock pick and IT tool. Did the inventor of the paperclip imagine how many doors would be opened with it? How many routers would be reset with it? How many iPhone SIM card slots would be popped open with it?
I love when people develop out-of-the-box uses for existing products.
Must be something in the water… a friend of mine in Denver locked herself out of her bathroom this weekend past.
Weird…