Just So You Know...

In case you were wondering... this is what a doorknob looks like after it's been beat with a hammer, jabbed with a screwdriver, and pried off its foundation. This particular scenario could happen if, say, your one year old locks himself into the guest room (which I have to admit, I didn't even know the door locked... much less that it required a key to unlock), the hinges are on the inside of the room (making it impossible to remove the door), the doorknob and foundation have no screws on the outside (in order to remove it from the door), and there is no key in the house that unlocks the door. When in this situation, there are several options. A) Go outside, get a ladder, crawl up to the window, break the window, hope the baby doesn't play with the broken glass, crawl in the broken window through the broken glass, rescue the baby and open the door from the inside. B) Call the fire department. Since the fire department is not allowed to go to any call without lights blazing and sirens screaming, wait for the fire department to arrive and every neighbor to come out of their homes to watch as the firemen arrive at our house in full fire gear, ready to rescue the child from the locked room. C) Smack the doo doo out of the doorknob until it falls off, allowing one to remove the insides of the doorknob and rescue the child from the locked room. I opted for C (although I'm quite certain Ezra and Asher would have much preferred B).