Simple things you never knew...

[Johnnytheboy]

...until an embarrassingly late age.

I know this has been done before but PH Search etc...

This morning I was trying to get through a coded door in a client's premises. One of these kind of locks:



I was fumbling with my phone to find where I'd noted the code, when a staff member came in and punched it in. He punched C721X, whenI found the code moments later it was C127X. I asked if the code had changed and he told me on any of these locks you can punch the digits in any order, and it will still work.

I've had to memorise dozens of these over my 20 years of work, and have punched them in hundreds of times and I never knew this. Presumably everyone else did.



Anyone else got any gaps in their knowledge that took decades to plug to make me feel better?

[Johnnytheboy]

alorotom said:

Johnnytheboy said:

on any of these locks you can punch the digits in any order, and it will still work.

I didn’t know this till you posted it so you definitely aren’t alone!

In fairness I am now going to try this in several locations to prove the theory!

[Johnnytheboy]

Yipper said:

Education in Jamaica is only compulsory up to the age of 11. You must pay for your own education after aged 12 and above.

That's not so much simple as utterly irrelevant.

[Johnnytheboy]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

If it's a simple thing you NEVER knew, then how can you post it here?

(should it be until recently? )

I know, there's always one

What, like reading the first line of the first post?