I decided to head to the bathroom before crashing into my bed tonite. However when I tried opening the door I realized that the bathroom had been locked from inside!!! Damn, it was a frustating thought. I think Om must have mistakenly kept the knob of the bathroom door in the lock position after using it. Om is a friend of my under graduate friend, Siddharath and has been staying with me since past 3 days. He will be moving out tommorow.
Anyway being Engineers we decided to open the knob without the a key. Om tried using a safety pin by inserting it in the hole of the knob and rotating it. The knob was basically a privacy door knob and was suppose to open without a key. Apart from pins, the other objects that we tried as a part of the stunt were scissors, knives, forks and screwdrivers. I even googled to find an answer to the physically frustating problem. I found a link
here but was of hardly any help. Half an hour had past and I was about to explode.
Since none of the techniques work, we decided to educate ourselves by solving a similar but easy problem. In short, we decided to experiment with my bedroom knob so as to understand the mechanics behind it. We purposefully locked the knob and then unscrewed it and using scissors rotated the inside shaft and finally unlocked the door. Hurray!!! We simply needed to apply these steps to the bathroom knob now. So after fixing (screwing) the bedroom knob, we again attacked the bathroom knob problem with our newly acquired knowledge and unlocked it as well.
I was relieved mentally as well as physically :) with the unlocked bathroom. Also I was enthusicatic enuf to write this blog about the misadventure. Anyway I will sleep now. Good Night World.
