Really. Who the fuck is responsible for making them? What fucktard dimwit is responsible for designing a type of door that consistantly fucks up and is apparently impossible to repair? OK I know it can be done, but I have been fucking with the damn thing for 30 minutes. The little wheels attached to the top of the door just won’t quite make it into their track. Why? For the love of Og and all that is unholy…WHY?
How hard could it be to make a design that stays where it is supposed to be, and if it somehow does get knocked off the track, is easy to put back on?
And the “designer” is proliferate. I find these doors all over. Several houses I have lived in have had them and they all come off the track at some point, leaving me to screw with the damn thing until the planets align properly and the wheels find their grooves.
So Mr. Wheel Track Door Maker…fuck you, you fuckwit! I pit thee with the heat generated by Rosie O’Donnel’s thighs in cuordoroy.
My bile tastes like a shake made from putrid dog milk, Gremlin feces, and the 2 week old rotting corpse of Ron Jeremy.
My rage is like a fish hook in your eye. My fury is sandpaper on your bloody hemorrhoid.
Hmmm, this sounds like a business opportunity. The problem is the wheels on the upper track are small enough they can be put on the track without tools, so that means they can be taken off without tools, even unintentionally. Make the upper wheels larger, and put a removable gate in the track that must be screwed in. No screwdriver to remove the gate, no wheels falling off the track.
What most bugs me about those sliding doors are the tracks on the bottom. They’re ugly and collect dirt. I suggest eliminating that by inserting a magnetic strip into a grove in the floor directly below the doors, which would contain magnets of opposite polarity to keep the doors aligned.
This superior design would be more expensive to purchase and install, and a little up front money will be needed to refine the design, manufacture, and market it. But if you and others feel that strongly about the other kind of doors, we can profit by providing an alternative. If you have the money to invest, you can send it to my bank account in the Bahamas. Then after we make millions, we can stay in the Bahamas to enjoy it!
Dirt isn’t the only thing they collect. They collect everything that is small enough to fit in (you know it fit in, because it’s in there, so why is it so damned hard to get OUT?).
(By the way, try to insert the casters into the top track when the bottom of the door is swung out, rather than hanging straight down. If it’s the kind of door I’m picturing, you can’t really just drop it into the track, it has to go in at an angle.)
We removed ours when we moved in and just left it open (but that closet is in a spare bedroom I use as a gym, and no one sees it). Can’t stand the things either.
When I was eight or so and at a sleepover, we were hanging out in my friend’s bedroom. (Big surprise there. Anyway.) We were playing some cheesy card game on her bed, which was near her closet. Her closet doors had a habit of coming off their track.
And hitting me in the head.
Sleepovers unfortunately only got worse at her house, but I’ve harbored a dislike of those doors ever since.
We’ve removed all the sliding closet doors from our house and burned them. Ok, so we didn’t burn them. Two are being used to hold the dog houses up off the ground to water doesn’t seep in in the winter, the rest are in the garage. Instead we have put curtains up in colors that co-ordinate with the decor of the room in front of the closest. Looks nice, never comes off track.
I don’t mind 'em either, I like having all my stuff tucked safely away behind doors. I realize it’s kinda trendy to take out the doors and put up curtains but I think that always winds up looking messy and collegiate.
Lite Brite pegs, broken crayons, pennies, Play-Doh, all clumped together into an impenetrable… clump. I spent my childhood in a house with such closet doors, and they never worked.
Now, in my adult home, they still don’t work, but at least the tracks are clean.
