Correct Horse Battery Staple

This is visually such an oddity that I don't know how best to tackle it. The Amish are not the only people with terrible perspective on buttons, it seems.

The entire "some lines are drawn with a ruler but not others" thing is bizarre. "Lines must be perfectly straight" has never been a point of contention with my ever-shaky hands. Curious also that, having a ruler to hand, I chose to make the numeric display not centered. Also, nice half-erasure ya got there.

The context for this one, oh my. This is an illustration for the worst book in the universe, which twelve-year-old me was convinced was a masterpiece. The fact that this keypad is the image I chose to represent the first chapter rather than, say, any of the characters, is probably telling of some Deep Trauma that you can't prove doesn't exist just because I don't hurt about it.

In that wretched chapter of that wretched book, the keypad was mentioned as a security device on the narrator's bedroom door. The reason it has this appearance is that I had a door alarm as a kid, which was also a yellow box with a fake plastic screw in each corner with the code 681 (though far more interesting to look at than this slab of cheese). However, opening the door in the story doesn't set off a siren, it merely results in a trapdoor dropping the intruder into a dungeon. There is also a  clearly Lemony Snicket-inspired (with apologies to him, as he is actually interested in creating things of quality) passage about the potential connotations of the phrase "password accepted" being spoken in the dead of night by a synthesized voice, but nary an explanation of how "password" can possibly apply to input containing only digits.