This HAS to be SC Fallout

[Zaiida]

It's official. As a species, we are doomed.

Nah, there are enough of us that as a species we will survive unless some idjit presses the wrong button or we end up getting invaded by hostile aliens or Captain Trips become real. Intelligence may go down though, Idiocracy is a scary thought.

Yes I have been watching zombie and apocolypse movie marathon, why do you ask?

Idiocy comes in many different forms. Lately I have been attempting to open shop doors the wrong way completely ignoring the push or pull signs at myself. Or I forget that all glass doors are not automatic = WHAM! that was embarrasingly hilarious

[JoitheArtist]

I was in a Starbucks a couple of weeks ago, and went to use the restroom. The door was big, and had one of those little dials on it to show green with "Vacant" on it when empty; when you slide the lock, it changes to red and says "occupied."

You'd think this would be a hint. Nope.

So I'm in the restroom, and someone yanks on the door. I think she actually expected it to open. Then she rattles the door. I don't say anything, because HELLO, the door itself says "occupied!" Also, I dislike shouting while in the bathroom.

Peace for a few moments, then the door is yanked again, and rattled. I say, "Occupied!" Nothing happens; the rattling continues. I say it louder, same result. Finally, I shout it, and the rattling stops.

I made the mistake of thinking this idiot had gotten the point. Silly me.

A few seconds later, I hear voices outside the door. It's an employee patiently explaining to this moron that the bathroom is, in fact, occupied.

When I left the bathroom, she was waiting, and glared at me. I so wanted to grab her head and push it into that sign on the door. Maybe then she'd notice it!!

[Zoom]

the door handle DOES NOT TURN! Countless people complain they couldn't use the restroom because the door was locked

"Well, you'll just have to wait your turn then!"
"But there wasn't anyone in the stall!"
"So, you admit you go around looking in closed stalls? We're calling the police."

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

and people wonder why I find the movie Idoitoracy to be the prophet for the future of the human race?????

Future....good one.

[Jay 2K Winger]

My idea of SC Fallout would using the VATS system against them.

Hey, you took the words right out of my mouth!

I'm glad to see I wasn't the only one who read that in the title.

[Racket_Man]

Future....good one.

I say future because there is still enough people in the present (like those here at CS) who do have brains, use them regularly, have enough common sense, do not listen to the Josef Goebbels propoganda machine of lies that permeate the the corp spineless BS give-them-what-they-want-even -if-it-costs-us -mucho-$$$$s, do not go for the gimme/freebie grab at the drop of a hat, actually AND understand and read signs, etc.

BUT yes I will cop to the present more than slowly trending toward the premsis of the movie.

[mharbourgirl]

Reminds me of the warnings in instruction booklets for hair dryers. "Do not use while sleeping." WTF???

Considering how many people I see daily that do seem to have done their hair in their sleep, that's a valid warning.

And this is coming from someone who was a teenager in the 80's. If *I* think your hair looks like crap, there's something really wrong with it.

[Andara Bledin]

Reminds me of the decorative door handles on the doors to our restrooms; you simply push the door open, the door handle DOES NOT TURN!

I've never understood the use of decorative handles that look like operative handles. Why not just have your standard c-shape handle on a door that doesn't latch?

That said, there are just way too many people who are outwitted by simple doors. >_>

^-.-^

[AnaKhouri]

In my old bookstore, the door to the restroom in the kids' section did not lock. It was a single restroom, no stalls or anything. The reason they disabled the lock was that way too many children were locking themselves in, panicking and screaming, and the only way to get in besides the locked door was to climb up into the ceiling, remove a panel, and drop down into the restroom (weird, huh? But the door did not have an outside lock we could pick).

So the lock was permanently disabled, and a sign placed on the door "This door DOES NOT lock. Please knock before entering." Simple, right? Of course, people don't always read, and young kids can't/don't read, so there was a fair number of people being walked in on while making peepee. But most were parents, hadn't peed by themselves since their kids could walk, and besides some startlement and blushing no one ever really complained.

One day a woman marched up to the information desk and snarled that I needed to tell my manager that she would be back in two days and if what they had discussed wasn't fixed she would be going to the media and police. I was startled to say the least but said OK, I'd tell her. My manager laughed when I did. I asked what it was about. The woman had been in the kids' bathroom and someone walked in on her. Now she was demanding that we have a lock because it was illegal and immoral or some crap. We spent much time speculating what exactly she was doing in there that made it so horrible. Masturbation was the most popular guess but drugs was #2. At any rate it was never changed. If the woman was so sensitive she should have come upstairs, the sign clearly stated the DOOR DID NOT LOCK.

[wolfie]

In my old bookstore, the door to the restroom in the kids' section did not lock. It was a single restroom, no stalls or anything. The reason they disabled the lock was that way too many children were locking themselves in, panicking and screaming, and the only way to get in besides the locked door was to climb up into the ceiling, remove a panel, and drop down into the restroom (weird, huh? But the door did not have an outside lock we could pick).

Now that's a bad design (lock that can only be opened from one side). What if the lock had been used in a home (i.e. no "through the ceiling" backup access)? Might it have been a "privacy latch" that, instead of having a lock cylinder on the outside, had a small hole in the handle where you could stick a long needle through to push out the button on the inside? Or, might it have been one of those but at some point, somebody fixing things didn't realize the importance of the hole, and swapped the outside handle for a "passage" (no lock at all) handle that didn't have the hole?

Disabling the lock was a bad idea - considering the price of "privacy latch" sets, it would have been fairly cheap to put on one that worked, and keep the "emergency opener" at the desk.

[Andara Bledin]

Disabling the lock was a bad idea - considering the price of "privacy latch" sets, it would have been fairly cheap to put on one that worked, and keep the "emergency opener" at the desk.

This. It's fairly trivial to get a privacy lock with a proper external release, and rather less so to have people potentially walking in on children in the restroom and the liability issues that would raise.

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[Sapphire Silk]

Wow, man... that's right up there with "Do not attempt to stop blades with hands or genitals" on a chainsaw I was looking at.

OK, who in their right minds attempts to stop blades with their genitals?

And why would we want to stop them from doing so? If they can't figure it out on their own beforehand that this is not a good idea, why would we want to ensure their ability to reproduce?

[Scorpodael]

And why would we want to stop them from doing so? If they can't figure it out on their own beforehand that this is not a good idea, why would we want to ensure their ability to reproduce?

Because lawyers, that's why.

[AnaKhouri]

This. It's fairly trivial to get a privacy lock with a proper external release, and rather less so to have people potentially walking in on children in the restroom and the liability issues that would raise.

No clue. I suppose management/owner could have done something about it, but they never did.

[AmbrosiaWriter]

OK, who in their right minds attempts to stop blades with their genitals?

And why would we want to stop them from doing so? If they can't figure it out on their own beforehand that this is not a good idea, why would we want to ensure their ability to reproduce?

I'm going to put my faith in the manufacturer who said, "Because someone would do this then sue the hell out of us because there was no warning!" and preemptively struck against the idiocy.

Also;

BECAUSE WE'RE IN AMERIKA, THIS IS AMURKIA!