I’m one of those OCD people, who hates to not have an answer for a question I might have. It’ll drive me nuts and halt any attempts to keep writing, if I don’t find that answer. So, I generally go and find it. Even if it takes me hours of Googling.
On Wednesday night, I suffered the horrific fate, that can only be described as “What do you mean Google can’t find it?”. I tried ‘bar lock’, ‘lock slide bar’, ‘bar across door lock’, ‘the lock with the bar across the door’, and nothing came up! Much to my frustration. Google rarely fails me, but in this, it seemed persistent.
So for 18 hours, it was driving me nuts and I finally had to ask my coworkers if they might know what it was called. One of them gave me a comment to the tune of “barré la porte”, because of the bar. So of course, then it clicks. It’s a freaking Barricade. Which makes sense, because like a police barricade across a road, it blocks a passage.
So, this post is to save someone else the misery of trying to figure this stupid lock out. Not that it’s the most common search, but still. It’s frustrating.
Also, I think there might be another name again for it. If you know it, let me know. I like words.
Have a great day.
Deadbolt
Nope. Barricade. Bar across the door, not just a tiny bar locking the side of the door X_X
No I meant like we also call the lock with the bar a deadbolt too