and the lesson learned?

Coral relayed a story to me last night - something that happened in her classmate's home.

The family went on a week vacation and asked their neighbor to water their plants. The neighbor kindly agreed.

The first day of the vacation the neighbor stopped by, did the neighborly thing, and then stopped in the toilet to do her own thing. When she was finished the grasped the door handle to open the door, but unfortunately the handle was loose and it fell off on the other side, rendering her part of the handle useless.

She had locked herself in the bathroom on the first day of a week long holiday.

Obviously without food or water.

Left with no other options, and out of desperation, at some point she decided to kick in the bathroom door. Three days later, although weak from the lack of food, she found the last bit of strength needed to finally break through the door.

The moral of the story - if you're home alone, leave the door open. Otherwise you could die of starvation.