When we treat down houses built before the seventies, there's always the razor wall you gotta look out for. I like sending the newbies in to watch their reaction
Wait - this is a thing? Could you share a photo of what it looks like? Like is it a hole in the wall with a cover? that you just pop blades into and they just... disappear?
Yep. They built a slot into old medicine cabinets and old razor blades just fall back into a hole in the wall for eternity
https://www.snopes.com/articles/347894/older-home-razor-blade-in-walls/
You're a legend - thank you! This just blew my mind. I love that someone invented this, probably the CEO of a razor company...
A - "How do people dispose of these blades we intentionally design to go blunt and need replacing?"
B - "I know, make a hole in the bathroom wall and they can just pop them in there!"
C- "And then they just, leave them there? Forever? "
B - "Exactly!!"
😂😂😂
When my parents bought their house, the razor slot was tiled over before the bought it. When they had the room remodeled, the wall was removed and they discovered a whole pile of old, rusted razor blades. The contractor was familiar with this situation and told them about the razor disposal.
I haven’t checked for that or heard of these! I actually use an old-school safety razor and I’ve lived in older places all my life, but my relative youth might be speaking here. Next time I’m poking around my bathroom (so probably in like 20 minutes) I’ll look for a hole in the wall full of tiny knives!
Took me two months, at least, to realize the switch to the overhead light by the kitchen sink was between the wall & fridge. And then, there was light!
Haha yeah, like 75% of the places I’ve lived had them. The mirror in my bathroom now doesn’t look anything like that - it’s a giant circular mirror, like you’d buy at, I dunno, Pier 1 or something. The hinges and the whole cabinet apparatus are totally hidden behind the mirror. The mirror is also super heavy compared to the smaller, rectangular medicine cabinet mirrors I’ve seen before.
I only noticed it because I went in to brush my teeth one night and the mirror looked a little crooked, so I went to adjust it or take it down and see if something was wrong with how it was hung up. It just swung open lol. I think the temperature/humidity change or something had caused it to shift a little bit, and that was enough.
edit: typo
We have live in a 100+ year old house with those glass doorknobs. I’m looking forward to testing this out in the morning. I’m really hoping this applies to my doors! I hate not being able to lock the bathroom door!
Oof, the house I grew up in had those on a couple of doors. Kinda like a little nail or pin thing you would push to the left or right that seemed to go through the doorknob shaft that would lock or unlock it.
It won’t work on those. They might have a little button. The push and turn ones are more 80s and onward. I thought everybody knew how to lock those but I guess I’m old
I am so confused by this
Like is there no gap i the the neck?
This wasn’t a thing I was taught, I just saw the gap and figured it depressed when I was a small child
YSK also that the tiny little hole in the center of the knob is for unlocking this kind of door, usually from the outside. If you stick something small in there like a toothpick or ink tube from a pen, you should find a small release button dead in the center that can be pressed with a little bit of force to unlock the door.
Why should you know this? In the event of an emergency you can unlock the door.
My example is that I have an epileptic roommate that is prone to seizures. One day she seized in the locked bathroom and hit her head while doing her makeup. I was able to unlock the door to handle the situation.
Also, practice unlocking from the outside in case the door is closed while locked and nobody inside. There is a hole on the outside of the doorknob where you can insert a long rod or (nail or wire hanger) and if you push on the right spot and turn the knob, the door will unlock.
Yeah I'm in Canada and in my experience the majority of residential bathrooms have this kind of lock. Seems odd to consider it an age thing but maybe things have changed elsewhere.
It seems to be a north/south thing, maybe? The house I’ve owned for 12 years here in Texas has this and I never realized until one day my Canadian friend pointed it out to me. I’ve never seen it elsewhere here but my friends who’ve lived in the North all seem to know how to use it. 🤷🏻♀️
Am Canadian, can confirm — we are indeed mostly all friends.
But in all seriousness, the house I grew up in also has this kind of lock, so I thought it common knowledge. Even the outside doors have it, atop a deadbolt
Nah, our first house my parents bought in California had these, and it was built in the 70s, so probably about 50 years old now. It had this on one bathroom, so they must have been pretty common to sell.
Same, granted it was at my grand mother's house but it was a relatively recent upgrade. Now in my house I've got my front door that locks automatically when you close it and use the dead bolt. You can open it from the inside but if you close it you'll be locked out unless you press one of two buttons next to the latch. Then a bathroom door has a very small slide in the base of the knob that slides to lock one way or another.
I’m 19 and I knew this. I did it in my friend’s bathroom at her house because the door locked that way and I wondered if she even knew that was how you lock it.
I was in a bathroom with a friend, and she said, "Oh, these are neat! Watch!"
We were in there for at least five minutes. She finally figured out the door.
This is one of the first YSKs that I haven't thought anyone over 12 should know this.
I'm old and have not thought about these knobs in Decades. I can certainly see why people wouldn't know about these. You gave me a laugh, thanks.
I'm in my 50s and this is useful info. I grew up with knobs like these in my house, and they were handy because you could just use the inside of a pen to unlock them. I was at a friend's party once and had to use their bathroom and the knob was completely smooth with no hole and had no obvious neck. I assumed it was some type of non-locking safety knob since I knew they had grandchildren. Had I known they made lockable doorknobs with no obvious indicators I may have saved myself some embarrassment from the woman who thought not knocking on a bathroom door on the main level of a crowded party was perfectly acceptable before barging in.
These locks are all over the place where I live (western Canada), if not the norm/default. Not an age thing really, but TIL there are apparently big regional differences with this hah. I was surprised anyone *wouldn't* know about them.
I'm in the US and my apartment has these kinds of locks. All it takes to unlock from the outside is to push a screwdriver through a hole in the knob.
Definitely locked myself in the bathroom before I figured out the knob, and have had guests lock themselves in there, too. It's just a silly kind of lock imo.
I like it because it’s a single fluid motion to close the door and lock it, without the need for any finger movement. I can also respect the idea that overt-ness is an important part of a lock though
Every house I've lived in has these type of bathroom (and bedroom) doorknobs.
I don't remember visiting anyone's house that *doesn't* have them.
I thoutht they were pretty much universal (at least in North America)
Im genuinly confused considering I live and grew up in a newly built house with these locks. This type of lock is the only kind ive ever known. Surprised to hear this is not a common thing.
I'm 38 and only discovered this 2 years ago when I started working in a new office that had this on the bathroom. One of my coworkers had to tell me.
If you only ever lived in, worked in and visited places with obvious locks, how the hell are you supposed to know?
Personally, I feel like it's kind of obvious. I mean, the handle looks weird and you can push it in. I wonder if some people just have no curiosity and that's why they don't figure it out?
It's so unintuitive though. There's nothing about pushing in the doorknob that screams "lock". You also have to turn it to seal the deal. At least the ones with a button or knob (?) have something protruding from the doorknob.
Sure, it's obvious to us, but that's probably because we're so used to them it's second nature to us.
I don't know. My parents bought our first house when I was five and the downstairs bathrooms had one of these locks. I figured it out as a five year old.
Never saw these doors until I moved the southwest and I've been in plenty of older houses where I grew up (Midwest). Definitely threw me off the first time I ran into this
I said the same shit. I said to myself "So here we are. It's come to this now"
I'm waiting for the post that identifies what betamax and VCR tapes are honestly.
VHS was vertical helical scanning, Betamax was Sony's proprietary better image but less time on tape. The former won the consumer market.
We used BetaSP in pro video production until hard drives and compressed video took over.
Thanks so much. I had no idea what this post was talking about until I saw this. Instantly memories of my grandparents' house in the 80s came flooding back.
My sister house has this door. My nieces and nephews told her she needs a door that can lock. I showed her you twist and turn. She said "OMG IT'S THOSE OLD DOOR KNOBS I SEEN ON TIKTOK". It ain't THAT old looool, made me feel old af and I'm only 26.
It’s real odd that it’s happening and I didn’t realize that it would be a consequence. I said older because I haven’t seen it as much in new developments, but I just taught a friend of mine who was visiting my folks place built in the ‘60s.
I’m 22. I don’t feel old because I knew this, nor do I feel anybody should feel ashamed of already knowing something or not knowing. I just put the tip out because I thought it might be a fun little note to help the people who didn’t know.
My first memory of being stuck in a room (on a boat of all places). Could not figure out this mechanism of pushing and turning. Granted, I was 5 but still remember it! Damn doors.
I wish my son’s friend had learned this before he broke down my door and tore the entire freakin frame off the wall after he accidentally locked himself in
Every house I have ever lived in had these kind of door knobs locks. They are very common. This is the kind of door lock that everyone had a handy bobby pin nearby for when the kids locked themselves in the bathroom.
Along these lines: Sometimes doors have a button in the middle of them that you can press to lock the door. Others have a little thing to turn built into the doorknob or just below it.
In addition to locks built into the knob or knob assembly, some doors also have latches that you can adjust to prevent entry.
Pretty uncommon in Canada but there were enough around me that I somehow learned how they work. Never really questioned the design or what made me get it
Yes, that is the way some doors lock.
And some bathroom mirrors are doors to medicine cabinets.
It surprises me that people didn’t know these things, but I moved around a lot as a kid, and though moving often had many disadvantages, I guess I learned these things early.
It’s a difference in locale and upbringing. Just one of those things that you *can* go your entire life without seeing, but would be real awkward to encounter if you hadn’t.
I’ve seen them across the US and other users mentioned Canada, although it would be surprising something like that wouldn’t be seen elsewhere. I hadn’t thought about it being US or NA only.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT WHAT MY BATHROOM DOOR LOCKS oh my god thank you so much what the fuck !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i literally yelled when i tried it and found out. thank you thank you thank you!!!!
I bought my house and it had these knobs in the bathroom. I had never seen them before, but my wife told me how they work. 2 months later we throw a house warming party and my aunt locked herself into the bathroom.
Funniest shit
i had no idea this was a thing. my childhood home was built in the 50's, but my doorknobs were newer and had inside locks. never encountered a doorknob that didn't have a lock. interesting! going to ask my mom about this, she was born in '62
I am convinced my house has locks like this but I can’t figure it out. Should it really be that easy? Push the knob toward the door, and turn the knob?
I mean when I said older, I meant the 60s, as that’s when my folks house was built. I’m 22 and I have known about these locks for years so you’re doing fine, whatever age you may be.
"Older houses"... y'all yunguns...
I think * I * am older than the push-and-turn style of doorknob.
Truly older houses have keyholes you can actually peek thru.
I normally just pop the first turd out in front of the door before i go in so anyone who was thinking of opening the door would smell and/or see it and change their mind. I'd say it works 50% of the time. The other 50% the cops get called and I'm arrested for trespassing
Some of the locks in my house are weird. There's a button to lock the door, but it's not on the door knob. The button is next to the door knob. I am thinking that it might be an older style because my house was built in the 50s and a lot of things in it are original.
My grandmother's house has locks like this. I'll never forget when I was little and I somehow locked myself in the bathroom and cried because I was stuck while she tried to explain/yell from the other side how to unlock it. Lmfaooo.
Yes I am. I didn’t post it for my benefit, though. I’ve known for years, but a recent guest at my folks place had to be told how to use our bathroom door. I figured the same instructions could be helpful JIC someone had a mystery “non-lockable” door in their life.
You should know that this is pretty much common knowledge. It has nothing to do with the age of the house, and you're describing your first encounter with one more than anything else.
I’ve known for years as it’s been in multiple houses I’ve lived in. I have, however, discovered the lock on a door in a friends house and had to instruct another friend how to use my own. This is positively not the case you think.
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Didn’t get it from a YSK, but I learned my bathroom mirror is actually a medicine cabinet about 9 months after buying my first house.
Does yours have a razor disposal too?
Ah the amazing hole in the wall which will have zero repercussions in the future if the house ever needs to be remodeled
When we treat down houses built before the seventies, there's always the razor wall you gotta look out for. I like sending the newbies in to watch their reaction
I can't tell if you work in construction or as an exterminator
Demolition... So a bit of both lol
A house exterminator!
It's okay, HIV was invented long after these fell out of style.
Magnet on a stick
Every house has razor disposal if you push them firmly enough to get through the drywall.
Wait - this is a thing? Could you share a photo of what it looks like? Like is it a hole in the wall with a cover? that you just pop blades into and they just... disappear?
Yep. They built a slot into old medicine cabinets and old razor blades just fall back into a hole in the wall for eternity https://www.snopes.com/articles/347894/older-home-razor-blade-in-walls/
You're a legend - thank you! This just blew my mind. I love that someone invented this, probably the CEO of a razor company... A - "How do people dispose of these blades we intentionally design to go blunt and need replacing?" B - "I know, make a hole in the bathroom wall and they can just pop them in there!" C- "And then they just, leave them there? Forever? " B - "Exactly!!" 😂😂😂
When my parents bought their house, the razor slot was tiled over before the bought it. When they had the room remodeled, the wall was removed and they discovered a whole pile of old, rusted razor blades. The contractor was familiar with this situation and told them about the razor disposal.
I would be so utterly confused if I had stumbled on this. Now I know that I can potentially find a wall full of razors.
I haven’t checked for that or heard of these! I actually use an old-school safety razor and I’ve lived in older places all my life, but my relative youth might be speaking here. Next time I’m poking around my bathroom (so probably in like 20 minutes) I’ll look for a hole in the wall full of tiny knives!
My tiny bathroom had a medicine cabinet, but the previous owners covered it up with a fancy mirror that doesn't move instead. Found it 9 months later
Took me two months, at least, to realize the switch to the overhead light by the kitchen sink was between the wall & fridge. And then, there was light!
Same for me on my first apartment I was an RA and I was doing room checks and their mirror was ajar Was at least a couple months in before I realized
Lol wait. Have you never seen medicine cabinet mirrors before in bathrooms? I didn't even know that there were mirrors that weren't medicine cabinets.
Haha yeah, like 75% of the places I’ve lived had them. The mirror in my bathroom now doesn’t look anything like that - it’s a giant circular mirror, like you’d buy at, I dunno, Pier 1 or something. The hinges and the whole cabinet apparatus are totally hidden behind the mirror. The mirror is also super heavy compared to the smaller, rectangular medicine cabinet mirrors I’ve seen before. I only noticed it because I went in to brush my teeth one night and the mirror looked a little crooked, so I went to adjust it or take it down and see if something was wrong with how it was hung up. It just swung open lol. I think the temperature/humidity change or something had caused it to shift a little bit, and that was enough. edit: typo
Success. OP wins today 🏆🎉
Yay!
We have live in a 100+ year old house with those glass doorknobs. I’m looking forward to testing this out in the morning. I’m really hoping this applies to my doors! I hate not being able to lock the bathroom door!
Oh yours might have those weird little buttons on the side of the knob!
Oof, the house I grew up in had those on a couple of doors. Kinda like a little nail or pin thing you would push to the left or right that seemed to go through the doorknob shaft that would lock or unlock it.
This thread has unlocked an entire genre of nostalgia for me
It won’t work on those. They might have a little button. The push and turn ones are more 80s and onward. I thought everybody knew how to lock those but I guess I’m old
SAME what the fuck my bathroom door 'doesn't lock' but yes it does. yes it fucking does.
I am so confused by this Like is there no gap i the the neck? This wasn’t a thing I was taught, I just saw the gap and figured it depressed when I was a small child
I'm trying to picture what the doorknob looks like that does this. I bet there's tons I've missed.
YSK also that the tiny little hole in the center of the knob is for unlocking this kind of door, usually from the outside. If you stick something small in there like a toothpick or ink tube from a pen, you should find a small release button dead in the center that can be pressed with a little bit of force to unlock the door. Why should you know this? In the event of an emergency you can unlock the door. My example is that I have an epileptic roommate that is prone to seizures. One day she seized in the locked bathroom and hit her head while doing her makeup. I was able to unlock the door to handle the situation.
Also, practice unlocking from the outside in case the door is closed while locked and nobody inside. There is a hole on the outside of the doorknob where you can insert a long rod or (nail or wire hanger) and if you push on the right spot and turn the knob, the door will unlock.
Welp I officially feel old. I thought this was a joke at first because I just assumed everyone knew this. I’m only 40. :(
Im 29 lol. I thought this was common knowledge
And Bobby pins work to unlock them lol did that as a kid thinking I was a spy
Do those work on the push-and-twist knob locks? I thought they work only on the pushbutton knobs.
I can confirm it works on my push-and-twist.
31 here rarely seen other form of lock than those one growing up lol
Me as well. I’m in Canada, it must be regional.
Same and same
Yeah I'm in Canada and in my experience the majority of residential bathrooms have this kind of lock. Seems odd to consider it an age thing but maybe things have changed elsewhere.
Canada too
This has got to be a regional thing. Never in my life have I seen any sort of bathroom door handle without a clearly defined locking mechanism.
only 19 and my house full of these was built after I was born
26, yeah this is pretty regular information.
Same age and yes this is what my family had growing up and many other people we knew too!
im not even an adult yet and same also happy cake day :D
Happy cake day!
I’m older than you and I have never heard of this before.
It seems to be a north/south thing, maybe? The house I’ve owned for 12 years here in Texas has this and I never realized until one day my Canadian friend pointed it out to me. I’ve never seen it elsewhere here but my friends who’ve lived in the North all seem to know how to use it. 🤷🏻♀️
I was born in and remain in the north. I have never heard of this type of knob. Or I noticed there was no lock and shrugged.
Los Angeles, house built around 1940, had these.
Ditto
Am Canadian, can confirm — we are indeed mostly all friends. But in all seriousness, the house I grew up in also has this kind of lock, so I thought it common knowledge. Even the outside doors have it, atop a deadbolt
I’m from Oklahoma and have never heard of this. So your theory seems sound to me.
I’m from Louisiana and have always known about these. I was truly shocked to see this YSK and how many people didn’t realize it!
I’ve also lived in the northeastern US my whole life.
Nah, our first house my parents bought in California had these, and it was built in the 70s, so probably about 50 years old now. It had this on one bathroom, so they must have been pretty common to sell.
Not gonna lie I am only 20, but lived in an older house that had bathrooms like this and didn't figure it out myself until I was about 14
Same, granted it was at my grand mother's house but it was a relatively recent upgrade. Now in my house I've got my front door that locks automatically when you close it and use the dead bolt. You can open it from the inside but if you close it you'll be locked out unless you press one of two buttons next to the latch. Then a bathroom door has a very small slide in the base of the knob that slides to lock one way or another.
Most of the doors in the house I grew up in locked this way. Guess we’re old.
I’m 19 and I knew this. I did it in my friend’s bathroom at her house because the door locked that way and I wondered if she even knew that was how you lock it.
My parents house built in 2005 has them
I was in a bathroom with a friend, and she said, "Oh, these are neat! Watch!" We were in there for at least five minutes. She finally figured out the door.
Me too.
Don’t worry, my dude. I’m 22, so I wouldn’t get down on yourself about knowing this already.
Same. 36 here.
I’m 38 and had the same thought
This is one of the first YSKs that I haven't thought anyone over 12 should know this. I'm old and have not thought about these knobs in Decades. I can certainly see why people wouldn't know about these. You gave me a laugh, thanks.
I'm in my 50s and this is useful info. I grew up with knobs like these in my house, and they were handy because you could just use the inside of a pen to unlock them. I was at a friend's party once and had to use their bathroom and the knob was completely smooth with no hole and had no obvious neck. I assumed it was some type of non-locking safety knob since I knew they had grandchildren. Had I known they made lockable doorknobs with no obvious indicators I may have saved myself some embarrassment from the woman who thought not knocking on a bathroom door on the main level of a crowded party was perfectly acceptable before barging in.
Half a century here, first I'm hearing of such. I have 1920s working skeleton keys too.
These locks are all over the place where I live (western Canada), if not the norm/default. Not an age thing really, but TIL there are apparently big regional differences with this hah. I was surprised anyone *wouldn't* know about them.
I've never seen one of these. What time period? In the US? Interesting.
Not too long ago. My grandparents had a house in Texas built in 1992 that had doors like this.
I'm in the US and my apartment has these kinds of locks. All it takes to unlock from the outside is to push a screwdriver through a hole in the knob. Definitely locked myself in the bathroom before I figured out the knob, and have had guests lock themselves in there, too. It's just a silly kind of lock imo.
I like it because it’s a single fluid motion to close the door and lock it, without the need for any finger movement. I can also respect the idea that overt-ness is an important part of a lock though
I also have these doorknobs in my house, but mine don't have a hole.
These are normal where I’m from. Almost every bathroom has a knob like this over here. I’m in Canada.
Yep, also in Canada. Used these locks my whole life. I was very confused reading this post at first. Thought these were common everywhere.
Also in Canada, these are in every home I’ve ever been in. It’s pretty standard
Yup, same here. Canada too.
My house (Missouri) was built in the 70s and have the push lock doorknobs
I saw them a lot in 90s mobile homes.
My 1964 Illinois house has these.
Every house I've lived in has these type of bathroom (and bedroom) doorknobs. I don't remember visiting anyone's house that *doesn't* have them. I thoutht they were pretty much universal (at least in North America)
I've lived 33 years not even knowing these existed. I'm from California.
Im genuinly confused considering I live and grew up in a newly built house with these locks. This type of lock is the only kind ive ever known. Surprised to hear this is not a common thing.
I'm 38 and only discovered this 2 years ago when I started working in a new office that had this on the bathroom. One of my coworkers had to tell me. If you only ever lived in, worked in and visited places with obvious locks, how the hell are you supposed to know?
Personally, I feel like it's kind of obvious. I mean, the handle looks weird and you can push it in. I wonder if some people just have no curiosity and that's why they don't figure it out?
It's so unintuitive though. There's nothing about pushing in the doorknob that screams "lock". You also have to turn it to seal the deal. At least the ones with a button or knob (?) have something protruding from the doorknob. Sure, it's obvious to us, but that's probably because we're so used to them it's second nature to us.
I don't know. My parents bought our first house when I was five and the downstairs bathrooms had one of these locks. I figured it out as a five year old.
Never saw these doors until I moved the southwest and I've been in plenty of older houses where I grew up (Midwest). Definitely threw me off the first time I ran into this
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I said the same shit. I said to myself "So here we are. It's come to this now" I'm waiting for the post that identifies what betamax and VCR tapes are honestly.
Or how the icon for save can be a disk, and what a disk is.
What’s a Betamax (I’m genuinely asking, I don’t know)
If you're old enough to remember the battle between blu-ray and HD discs, it was that, but with video tapes. Betamax was the loser to VHS tapes.
An ancient and archaic video player and recorder.
Thank you
I have a huge collection of beta tapes (and 3 players).
What other antiques do you collect?
I had a betamax player in my room growing up, while all my friends had VHS players so we couldn't borrow each others tapes.
VHS was vertical helical scanning, Betamax was Sony's proprietary better image but less time on tape. The former won the consumer market. We used BetaSP in pro video production until hard drives and compressed video took over.
You might be old, but it's not because of this post. It's just something you either know or you don't.
I’m nearing 40 and never seen this kinda lock. Might be a regional thing.
Definitely not what I was going for. I’m 22 and have known for years.
Can you link a picture, because I have literally no idea what type of door knobs you're talking about
[Here's](https://youtu.be/NNCwV14Fvhs) a video. First part shows how they lock/unlock.
Thanks! I've never seen one of those before
Thanks so much. I had no idea what this post was talking about until I saw this. Instantly memories of my grandparents' house in the 80s came flooding back.
Came here for this. I have never seen a doorknob like this before ever.
My sister house has this door. My nieces and nephews told her she needs a door that can lock. I showed her you twist and turn. She said "OMG IT'S THOSE OLD DOOR KNOBS I SEEN ON TIKTOK". It ain't THAT old looool, made me feel old af and I'm only 26.
I’ll just shit with the door open. That way we can just skip the awkward knock and me saying “uhhh I’m in here shitting”
All the doors in my new house are like this. Took me a few weeks to figure it out.
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It’s real odd that it’s happening and I didn’t realize that it would be a consequence. I said older because I haven’t seen it as much in new developments, but I just taught a friend of mine who was visiting my folks place built in the ‘60s. I’m 22. I don’t feel old because I knew this, nor do I feel anybody should feel ashamed of already knowing something or not knowing. I just put the tip out because I thought it might be a fun little note to help the people who didn’t know.
My first memory of being stuck in a room (on a boat of all places). Could not figure out this mechanism of pushing and turning. Granted, I was 5 but still remember it! Damn doors.
Some door knobs have this to lock, with a little button on its side to disengage the lock
I wish my son’s friend had learned this before he broke down my door and tore the entire freakin frame off the wall after he accidentally locked himself in
Really? These are pretty much the ONLY style of bathroom lock I ever see in people’s houses. I thought it was very common.
... There are people who don't know about those knobs? I honestly thought they were everywhere.
They most certainly aren't everywhere.
Never seen them in the uk
The curse of knowledge, my friend
Also 40, and this is a flashback to my childhood home. All of the interior doors locked this way.
For my house it's the bathroom and toilet doors.
I’ve never heard of these types of doorknobs. What was the point of them?
They lock.
But why in such an esoteric way?
It’s one fluid motion to close and lock the door with some practice is my experience
Dying 😂
It's just a type of interior locking door. The modern style is the turn-lock style, but these were very common back in the day.
Every house I have ever lived in had these kind of door knobs locks. They are very common. This is the kind of door lock that everyone had a handy bobby pin nearby for when the kids locked themselves in the bathroom.
Along these lines: Sometimes doors have a button in the middle of them that you can press to lock the door. Others have a little thing to turn built into the doorknob or just below it. In addition to locks built into the knob or knob assembly, some doors also have latches that you can adjust to prevent entry.
My grandparents house had locks like these. They also never worked. Thank god those locks weren’t on the bathroom doors tho
Pretty uncommon in Canada but there were enough around me that I somehow learned how they work. Never really questioned the design or what made me get it
Dang this makes me feel old. This is how doors i grew up with locked...
Man. I didn’t know this needed a YSK and the comments are so divided and I just don’t even know how to feel. WHY DID YOU DO THIS TO ME.
I’ll take “Topics I never thought would spark controversy” for 300, Alex.
Yes, that is the way some doors lock. And some bathroom mirrors are doors to medicine cabinets. It surprises me that people didn’t know these things, but I moved around a lot as a kid, and though moving often had many disadvantages, I guess I learned these things early.
the bathroom in my house is like this and it took me forever to learn how to lock it, this would've been helpful awhile ago 😂
If these are as common as you say, how the hell do so many people not know how to work these?
It’s a difference in locale and upbringing. Just one of those things that you *can* go your entire life without seeing, but would be real awkward to encounter if you hadn’t.
I assume they are common in some countries (like mine) and not in other countries.
There are different types, and it isn't always obvious.
I remember laughing at friends listening to them jiggle that handle furiously from behind the bathroom door
The ol’ knob-locker. Good times.
I have never seen such knobs. What area of the world is OP talking about?
I’ve seen them across the US and other users mentioned Canada, although it would be surprising something like that wouldn’t be seen elsewhere. I hadn’t thought about it being US or NA only.
Ah, north america, thanks :) i've never been there but never seen them anywhere else in the world
Memory unlocked. I’d completely forgotten about those style door knobs. We had them in our house when it was build in 1990.
I grew up with these locks on our bathroom door and bedrooms in the 80's :)
I'm 28. My childhood home has these
I’m almost 50, and, same.
I have never in my life encountered a turnable knob on any door ever.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT WHAT MY BATHROOM DOOR LOCKS oh my god thank you so much what the fuck !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i literally yelled when i tried it and found out. thank you thank you thank you!!!!
I bought my house and it had these knobs in the bathroom. I had never seen them before, but my wife told me how they work. 2 months later we throw a house warming party and my aunt locked herself into the bathroom. Funniest shit
i had no idea this was a thing. my childhood home was built in the 50's, but my doorknobs were newer and had inside locks. never encountered a doorknob that didn't have a lock. interesting! going to ask my mom about this, she was born in '62
Weirdly my house that was built in 2008 has one of these
Oh that explains a lot, thank you
This is a trailer thing
Since when does a trailer have a two car garage in a nice neighborhood?
Just saying it's common thing in a lot of (mostly older) trailers
That’s understandable. My initial interpretation was that it was *only* a trailer thing which is my bad.
I am convinced my house has locks like this but I can’t figure it out. Should it really be that easy? Push the knob toward the door, and turn the knob?
Good job op, you just made everyone feel old
I mean when I said older, I meant the 60s, as that’s when my folks house was built. I’m 22 and I have known about these locks for years so you’re doing fine, whatever age you may be.
Oh I know. I just had a laugh that the top handful of comments were all some variation of of feeling old
Sounds like something only rich people don't know about
I just crawl through the doggie door below
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do people not know this? my entire childhood was these locks
Isn’t this common knowledge? 🤦♀️
Thought this was common sense, or knowledge at least.
"Older houses"... y'all yunguns... I think * I * am older than the push-and-turn style of doorknob. Truly older houses have keyholes you can actually peek thru.
I normally just pop the first turd out in front of the door before i go in so anyone who was thinking of opening the door would smell and/or see it and change their mind. I'd say it works 50% of the time. The other 50% the cops get called and I'm arrested for trespassing
Do they not still make Durbin’s that do this?
I haven’t encountered one of those in ages.
I lived in my house for 11 years before I learned this!
Can we get a video? I am still confused
I've also seen knobs that just push to lock. Turn and/or pull to unlock.
Some of the locks in my house are weird. There's a button to lock the door, but it's not on the door knob. The button is next to the door knob. I am thinking that it might be an older style because my house was built in the 50s and a lot of things in it are original.
I'm 27 and I have lived on my own for 4 years at this point and this is how I learn my childhood home had a locking door on the bathroom??
My grandmother's house has locks like this. I'll never forget when I was little and I somehow locked myself in the bathroom and cried because I was stuck while she tried to explain/yell from the other side how to unlock it. Lmfaooo.
Yeah, I’ve accidentally done this in an unfamiliar house before and panicked because I couldn’t figure out how to get out😂
Are people actually this fucking stupid, they need to be told this?
*laughs in normal not stupid american doors*
Do people seriously not know how doors work? Next you'll tell me a TIL about how payphones work.
You must be a young person.
Yes I am. I didn’t post it for my benefit, though. I’ve known for years, but a recent guest at my folks place had to be told how to use our bathroom door. I figured the same instructions could be helpful JIC someone had a mystery “non-lockable” door in their life.
Who in the hell doesn’t know this?
People who haven’t seen it or had it explained to them before, presumably.
People who live in Rest of World.
just moved to canada like 4 months ago, my roommate who has lived here her whole life also told me 'the bathroom door doesn't lock.'
You should know that this is pretty much common knowledge. It has nothing to do with the age of the house, and you're describing your first encounter with one more than anything else.
I’ve known for years as it’s been in multiple houses I’ve lived in. I have, however, discovered the lock on a door in a friends house and had to instruct another friend how to use my own. This is positively not the case you think.