You know that feeling when you manage to type your password in wrong on your smart phone a few times in a row? And then it locks you out for a few minutes? It’s kind of the worst thing in the world. Two minutes feels like two hours, and five minutes feels like a week.

But what if you were locked out of your phone for…25 million minutes?

It sounds like something out of a futuristic movie, but we’re not kidding. This nightmare can actually happen.

We didn’t even know it was possible to be locked out of your device that long—and neither did one dad, Evan Osnos, who pried his iPad out of his 3-year-old’s hands to find the impossible: Locked out for 25. Million. Minutes.

Just for reference, one million minutes is equivalent to one year, 329 days, 10 hours and 40 minutes. So 25 million minutes is much, much longer than that. Like, 45ish years longer than that. Like you could potentially die before your phone is unlocked. Your kid will probably be married at that point.

So what did Evan do? As a cry for help, the dad, he posted a photo on his Twitter showing his iPad’s lock screen that read, “iPad is disabled” followed by “try again in 25,536,442 minutes.”: “Uh, this looks fake but, alas, it’s our iPad today after 3-year-old tried (repeatedly) to unlock. Ideas?”

The tweet went viral, garnering over 15,000 likes and more than 4,000 retweets. The reactions were pretty varied. Shock. Sympathy. Panic. Skepticism. And of course, there were quite a bit of unhelpful yet funny jokes made.

“Time travel seems to be your best bet,” someone tweeted at Evan.

“Did the 3 year old get his hands on the iPad just as the 12,000,000 minutes from the previous lock expired?” someone else wrote.

“Might as well give the iPad back to the kid. If you’re lucky, it might just make number will overflow to something less long,” another person said.

But there was also some helpful advice as well. Apparently this is something that many parents have experienced before (who knew?) and were happy to offer the tips on erasing their device. This is pretty much the only way to solve the problem of your kids locking you out of their own iPads or iPhones for similar amounts of times.

This is similar advice that Apple states on its website: “If you enter the wrong passcode on an iOS device too many times, you’ll be locked out and a message will say that your device is disabled,” the company explains. “Data on the device will no longer be available, and you’ll need to erase your device.”

The problem with this is that all of your data can get deleted. But honestly? Evan didn’t care at that point with the alternative being waiting years on years before he could use his iPad again!

“Got it into DFU mode (don’t hold down the sleep/power button too long or you end up in recovery). Now restoring. Thanks to those who shared advice!” he tweeted as an update.

Has being locked out of your phone this long ever happened to you? What did you do to fix it?