Door Stops and Traffic Jams
By David Dean Menzies I saw something new at work that I have never seen before. Anywhere. Someone had taken one of those little wooden door stops and wedged it in between a door frame and inside of the door, almost at about eye-level. Prior to this I had only ever seen them used between the bottom of a door and the floor. Taking a step back and looking at this particular situation, it made perfect sense – the floor underneath the door, when open, is made of some type of marble. The door stop didn’t have any type of rubber on it, just pure wood, so it would slide on the marble and prove ineffective, hence the jerry-rigged solution. Brilliant, right? Or maybe you don’t think it’s brilliant. Perhaps your thinking has you going in a different direction, like why not just use a rubber-soled door stop, or I bet that looks silly. Who knows. Your perspective is your own, and the solution itself is open to interpretation. At the end of the day, the result is that the door is propped ...