Beyond Door Thousand 14 - Hurry Up In That Bathroom!

If you had a dollar for every minute you spent outside the bathroom door, twiddling your thumbs, watching the clock tick down towards the minute you were supposed to be at work (or past that minute), waiting for your blooming brother or husband to finish waxing their legs and let you have a shower, would you be rich?!

Well, if anybody ever gives you all those dollars, you can buy one of these self-unlocking timers for your bathroom door. What’s more, if somebody stays in the bathroom over their allotted time, the door doesn’t just unlock to reveal them in all their leg-waxy, hair-dyeish, toenail clipping glory, but it also calls an emergency phone number! If you have a regular offender for late bathroom exits, why not make it their boss?

You need to program the time limit in the initial setup, and from that point onwards it can’t be changed, or so we understand. Ner, nerny ner ner! However, there is a button on the back of the door lock to cancel the alarm. It must be pressed within thirty seconds of the alarm going off, to stop the call being initiated.

The technically advanced door lock is really designed to help elderly people, who often slip and fall in the bathrooms, and due to brittle broken bones or resulting injuries can’t get up. However, we can see much wider applications … obviously . Although the irony has been noted, that if an elderly person needs to jump quickly out of the bath to cancel a shrieking alarm with only a thirty second window, that the risk of injuries may very well be increased …

We would also recommend, for bathroom hog thwarting (now doesn’t that sound like a fun weekend sport?! Bathroom hog-thwarting …) that the timer be re-programmable … but perhaps with a pin code, to stop them simply re-programming it once they have gained entry to the hallowed white halls.

You just need to hope that your Dad doesn’t take to shaving his underarms with the door open, now!

Via Yanko Design