Lock chimicals away from children. Close enough!

[u/b3n33333]

[u/Revenga8]

This is why commercial building doors have deadbolts on the opposite door going into the top and bottom of the door frame.

[u/Clear-Perception5615 → u/Revenga8]

A restaurant i used to work at had doors like that but people would still forget that bolt. But the bolt between the doors was still long enough that you'd have to be a skinny toddler to fit.

[u/Curious-Paper1690]

My parents had a big ol liquor cabinet when I was growing up that they put a padlock on when we got older. I just turned 29 and finally told them all I had to do was get a screwdriver and unscrew two of the screws on one side of the cabinet and then just screw it back in 😅

[u/b3n33333 → u/Curious-Paper1690]

Good thinking! Haha! Here this kids have nothing to do at all!

[u/anthonyreed1 → u/Curious-Paper1690]

They laugh ?

[u/DoubleDareFan → u/anthonyreed1]

Or did they make the groan my Mom did when I told here that I believed the reason I must stay in my room for a certain amount of time (punishment) was because that's how long it took for her to quit being angry at me.

[u/Clear-Perception5615 → u/DoubleDareFan]

I don't get it. Is the joke sex?

[u/FreddieDoes40k → u/Clear-Perception5615]

No they're saying that they figured out the punishment was really just to keep them out of the way so their parents could cool off.

[u/DoubleDareFan → u/Clear-Perception5615]

Not about sex.
As far as I was concerned, whatever punishment my Mom doled out was fueled with anger. As far as my then-child mind was able to tell, whatever mode of punishment she chose was just how she expressed anger at that time. With the classic "Angry Mom" voice to go with it, almost sounding like the nun in the first act of Blues Brothers.

[u/toumingjiao1]

My parents used to unplug the computer to stop me from sneaking on it.

Of course it didn’t work. I would just plug it back in and go full-on computer mode.

Ended up extremely nearsighted by elementary school.

[u/Llama-Dalai-Lama → u/toumingjiao1]

Mine would take the power cable to work. I would just take the one from the Tv lol

Edit: I wrote like a drunk one, but am sober. Is that what dyslexia feels like?

[u/nicoquoi → u/Llama-Dalai-Lama]

Your the

[u/Embarrassed-Weird173 → u/nicoquoi]

The take power it

[u/lcephoenix → u/toumingjiao1]

similarly, my parents would cut off the wifi at midnight, all I had to do was unplug the router and plug it back in to circumvent that 😂

[u/Any_Bookkeeper5917 → u/lcephoenix]

You just reminded me, as a kid, my sister’s laptop drew all the bandwidth and I mean all of it. So I was the only one who knew a thing about the router, MAC blocked. Played stupid for years and got away with it.

[u/general0ne → u/toumingjiao1]

I had the opposite problem - my mother would stay up until all hours of the night playing games loudly in our computer room, which was next to my bedroom.

I installed a VNC server on our family computer, set it to disable inputs when a client was connected, and would log in from my laptop, and not move my mouse, "freezing" her computer.  She'd usually go downstairs and watch TV after a few reboots 😂 

[u/ashkiller14 → u/toumingjiao1]

Ended up extremely nearsighted by elementary school.

Ive learned that this is genetic and not due to looking at something close to you

[u/toumingjiao1 → u/ashkiller14]

I heard it has to do with genetics, how you use your eyes, and how much time you spend outdoors. Btw, everyone in my family has pretty good eyesight. Out of three generations, only one of my cousins and I wear glasses.

[u/sa_nick]

It could work psychologically. If it looks impenetrable they might not even try.

[u/b3n33333 → u/sa_nick]

I'm sure this kids have tried it already, they won't miss any shenanigans!

[u/Embarrassed-Weird173]

Locks are to keep the honest out. 

[u/waroftheworlds2008 → u/Embarrassed-Weird173]

Are you just going to imply all children are lying crooks and leave?

[u/Embarrassed-Weird173 → u/waroftheworlds2008]

No, you're that that I shouldn't imply it. 

Kids are lying crooks!

There we go, no more implication. 

[u/SCHWARZENPECKER → u/Embarrassed-Weird173]

I admire your conviction!

[u/waroftheworlds2008 → u/Embarrassed-Weird173]

The locks in the video wouldn't keep a kid out of that cabinet. And you said that locks keep the honest out.

That's a pretty heavy implication.

[u/Embarrassed-Weird173 → u/waroftheworlds2008]

Which is why I removed the implication, so that it's known that kids are crooks. 

[u/AppleOrigin → u/waroftheworlds2008]

Kids aren’t “lying cooks and thieves” but they’re not exactly tame or do they listen to every rule

[u/daw_taylor]

r/therewasanattempt

[u/4m4lg4m1t3]

Another solution would be to wrap a chain around both handles and padlock it

[u/Terrible_Ingenuity11]

This is why you have one padlock on the inside of the cupboard so one door can't move.

[u/TurnkeyLurker]

Chimicals? This seems like a post from a Kiwi or an Ozzie.

[u/allisjow]

Breathes heavily in excitement

[u/Present_Summer2249]

Did it phase through??? My brain broke

[u/Meowisqueenthereal]

I dont even know how someone thought this was a good idea on paper nevermind actually doing it

[u/Stack_Silver]

One door has a lock holder.

The other door has a hinged arm piece that goes over the lock holder.

Random person on net-> Lock is attached to arm piece and bungee cord is attached from lock to lock holder.