The Mother of Who?
By Gus Kilthau
@Ceerios (4698)
Goodfellow, Texas
June 16, 2017 4:04pm CST
The Mother of Who? -
They tell me that "Fathers' Day" is right around the corner (of the calendar, anyway...) I am experienced as a father. AND also as a grandfather AND as a great grandfather.
I think that I just "invented" a childproof door.
Experience pays, right?
No need to describe the door at the moment, but it looks to be practical of both use and of installation. As with most inventions, the idea for this thing came along like a bolt of lightning from a cloud. One minute, one of the several great grandchildren was bugging me as I was at work in my little office here, and the next thing was that my childproof door arrived, not actually, but in 1-2-3 conceptual order.
Necessity IS the mother of invention.
The next step will be to produce one childproof door to insure that the concept was practical in the many aspects of practicality. That is much like cooking a cake. You put the cake stuff together, then you bake the cake in an oven, and after that you check it out by eating a big piece of cake.
After a while, we will have to figure out what we want to do with my new door.
Image: A door - Gus Kilthau
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@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
16 Jun 17
rilght adoor just that no frills hope it turms ouit to be
,,more childproof than the childproof lids on bottles
of pills. We f oumd out years bac k our six year old
daughter could take the lid off a bottle of baby aspirin
and the lid was child proof we had to rush her to er
they pumped her tumy so she did survive that we locked
our medicine cabinet after that
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@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
17 Jun 17
@Hatley - Ms Patsie - We have a 2-year-old here who has earned the right to have the new name that I have given her - "Tornado." That kid cannot reach as high as the doorknob to my little workroom. The first time she surprised me with one of her wild entries I looked to see how she did it - how did she get the door open? I looked. She had dragged the coffee table to the door and stood atop it to get to the doorknob. No problem for a tornado, right? Nothing is secure from this kid.
I am glad that you got your little one all pumped out and saved for that day. -Gus-
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@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
28 Jun 17
If you could really have a good door that keeps the little ones out, you will make millions!
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@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
28 Jun 17
@PatZAnthony - Ms Pat - Would that not be the day? -Gus-
@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
18 Jun 17
@Genipher - Gotta smile at that one because I agree with your husband. Several of the things I dreamed up in the past resulted in products - and those resulted in lots and lots of hard work - and so on and on... (You can fill in the blank spaces in the chain as you like.) Things might have become less tangled together had we been able to get rich from all of the effort, but life mostly does not work that way, does it? -Gus-
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@responsiveme (22923)
• India
24 Jun 17
You certainly my got to out think the kids.
I used to keep a filled bucket of water in the bathroom in case there was no running water but stopped it when my two year old decided to put his head inside the bucket
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@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
24 Jun 17
@responsiveme - Friend ARM - We have a two-year-old here, too, I have given her the working name, "The Tornado." There is a need to watch those two-year-olds at all times, for you never do know what they are going to do next. -Gus-
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