You know those things you put on drawers so your sweet little ones can’t open them? Have you installed one of these childproof latches I speak of? They help you avoid the chance of a knife-wielding toddler running around your house. So when my little girl got tall enough to start opening up the kitchen drawers, it meant it was TIME TO CHILDPROOF.
So I got my tools out and began the quick installation. Then I realized this was one of those jobs where the first time you do it, it’s really annoying because the screws are tiny so you keep dropping them and the tape that’s supposed to hold the little plastic pieces in place during installation isn’t very sticky so the pieces you so carefully lined-up keep falling.
Then you finally get it installed only to realize the one piece is too far back and your fingers can’t reach far enough to unhook the latch so at this point it’s child and adultproof. You start to ponder life without knives, forks, and other helpful utensils only to realize you have to re-install it. It goes a tiny bit faster this time around, and as you finish, you think about how the next ones will be easier.
Well, in my case, once I finally got the damn thing properly installed, I chucked all the dangerous utensils in this drawer because I was not installing another one. I walked away proud and impressed with myself, child is safe, a job well done. Or at least done.
Then about fifteen minutes later, I needed a knife to cut-up a snack and tried to open the drawer, but it was stuck and I thought, “What the heck is wrong with this drawer?” So I stubbornly ripped it open like the Incredible Hulk, and only then remembered I had installed the childproof latch. I walked away less proud and less impressed with myself, a job undone.
So if you perform an extremely annoying task, then forget in a matter of minutes and rip that sucker right off, give yourself grace.
coming full circle 