When is a door not a door? When a door is ajar.
Everyone is more concerned about security, but sometimes you just have to wonder what goes through some folks’ heads. Yesterday, I went with my wife over to the County Courthouse (same one I wrote about back on January 13) to get her driver’s license renewed. The counter area has just recently been renovated (along with the rest of the building) and it looks a lot nicer. Of course, all the employees now have the ubiquitous scan card I.D.s to get them into the doors which are now all locked with the ubiquitous scan card I.D. readers. Pretty good idea, I suppose. But you know, it looks kind of silly for our steadfast civil servants to walk up to the counter, swipe a card, and go through one of those little swinging doors that is only 2 ½ feet high. In that instance, you just gotta figure that the money spent on wiring a card reader for this nondoor would have been better spent on a couple of “Do Not Enter” signs. If they wanted to get really serious, they could read “Terrorists Do Not Enter.” That would stop ‘em!

posted by Terry at 11:40:00 AM