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You can do that with two locks too, but one is simpler. Also, there is a failure mode here. Can you think of it?
by cryptonector 8y ago
You can do that with two locks too, but one is simpler.
Also, there is a failure mode here. Can you think of it?
- bdamm 8y agoDeath of the person in the bathroom? Damage to the hooks causing a jam or releasing the lock entirely? Simply not engaging the lock at all? Someone walking off with the thong and using it creatively elsewhere in their hotel? A few failure scenarios. Nothing's perfect!
- cryptonector 8y agoDeath or incapacitation of the person in the bathroom is what I had in mind. Yes, there's also the leather strap or hook (or doorknobs, ..) breaking. I hadn't considered that, oy.
- chii 8y agoI can't see what failure mode that the single lock has that isn't the same in the 2 locks version.
- jib 8y agoI often share the bathroom with my wife, and we don’t always enter at the same time. I.e. sometimes you don’t want to lock your own door.
- mjevans 8y agoJust thinking about this for a minute or so, I don't think there's a way of allowing /only/ one door to remain open-able ('unlocked') that solves the problem. Either both must lock/unlock in the same action or there must only be one door to the restroom (that is, duplicate the resource).
- brudgers 8y agoIt's a different problem.
- brudgers 8y agoIf the two people are accessing the bathroom from the same side, locks are not a problem. Three or more people sharing the bathroom is a different problem.