The ol' sock on a doorknob

[CalMeacham]

@MikeF

Speaking of dorm hijinks, one could “penny in” someone in a room. We had heavy wooden doors in steel frames but here was a little give if you pushed on the door at, say, chest level. Pennies could be placed in this gap, stacked on edge, if you get my drift. You’d jam them in there so tightly that it was very hard to turn the knob with the latch bolt force up against the strike plate.

This happened to me in our dorm room my freshman year. Only it wasn’t a wooden door – we had a metal door in a metal frame. When you “penny” someone in that way, it’s serious. With wooden doors or jambs there’s some “give”, but metal doors and frames are solid.