I had to blog on this incident at work yesterday. Our office doors are monitored by 24 hours security alarm system and all staff need to enter and exit with the tap of the card.
Two of the doors - marketing room store door and the main employee entrance door was just tightly shut and refused to unlatched even with the tap of the card. The IT guy went to check and found out that the fault was due to the control card being faulty. In a nutshell, no amount of tapping of cards and unclicking of the controls on the main desktop can unlatch the door. The doors remained tightly shut. Simply refuse to open its mouth.
Now me being me place the thinking cap to good use. If the system is controlled by electrical wires connecting the hardware and the software, one way to get the door open was to remove the wires, right? I threw this question to the IT guy and he told me not possible. (Now.... how can that be? Just open the box where the hardware is, pull out the wires and then it sort of send a message to the system that this door is not connected and can be opened).
Then being a Taurus by birth, the innate stubborness is at work. I do not believe it. I storm into the IT room and start to try the box and then in front of me, there are like 1001 boxes for you to try your luck on the wires to be pulled out. (So forget it!) I decided to use the control clicking as the first solution step. What I did was just to find that particular door and right mouse click and select Unlock Door, the red dot becomes green. I did the same for the other door. The same thing happen.
What follows next is both doors are now able to open!
IT guy: What did you do to make the doors open?
Me: I simply do the clicking on the main computer controls.
IT guy: But that was what I did exactly just now! and It didn'y work at all. I think you have that
Magic TouchMe: (just smile) You know what... I guess it was the physic powers that came to me there and then and well, call me nuts, I like to credit to Little One. (if C reads this, confirmed he thinks I am insane!)