Weaponized forehead axes

Time.com

Few are they the number of things more deadly than the corner of a wall in the dark. I wake up before the kids, wife, and if I'm lucky, the dogs, so I do my best to not wake the others while getting ready for work.

This morning I awoke, it was darker than usual which means my son decided to dim the dining light (which acts as the house-wide night light) to a lower setting than usual. I stumbled my way to the bathroom for a shower, suppressing the cough that is for some reason getting worse. I finished my shower and headed for my closet to get dressed. No problems yet, I am a grown man after all, and should be entirely capable of dressing myself quietly without major bodily injury. After getting dressed I closed the closet door and turned off the light, eliminating what little illumination I did have, and while turning to go to the kitchen for some coffee (in hind sight, coffee before the shower may have prevented this), I miscalculated my angle and walked face first into the corner of the wall.

Do not google "Ouch". Trust me.

Why do houses have corners at all? Aren't we advanced enough as a society that we can gently curve the angles of our construction rather than live in giant boxes full of murderous, weaponized forehead axes? Forget protecting yourself with a gun during a home invasion. Save your bullets and just turn the lights off, the thieves will be dead within five minutes.

For that matter, why do we need walls at all? Why don't we just have giant houses made of glass with active barrier generators of some sort that can be moved invariably whenever the owners get tired of the current floor plan? It's 2014 people, we should have this.

Luckily, the cough I mentioned before has the back of my throat feeling dry and swollen, which suppressed the scream enough that I didn't wake anyone.