Woman gets locked in toilet, but manages to escape

My mom got stuck in a restaurant bathroom stall, the door latch wouldn't release. She fortunately had her phone and called the restaurant for help!

This happened to one of my kids. We and the staff (who were exceptionally nice) managed to coax him through. Weirdly, he doesn’t want to return.

Such a gorgeous building to live in - lucky her!

I have cousins who are incredibly academic but have never left institutional education because they went straight from school to university, got lots of degrees, then got teaching positions. They can understand nuclear physics or obscure branches of mathematics etc. but have few basic life skills, and little general knowledge or experience of much outside their own field. Their mother would often say that she was the only one in the family with any common sense. She planned her own funeral because she knew they would never be able to manage it. "There's none so strange as folk."

Also, one of my colleagues in his twenties got stuck in his rented en-suite room because his door latch broke. He was also in there for 7 hours before the landlord got someone in to release him. He was on the ground floor with windows that opened, but there was a space-limiter fitted to prevent break-ins. Those things can be removed with a screw-driver within minutes. His flat-mates were handing food through the gap to him. Why they couldn't have handed a screw-driver in and released him, I have no idea. Maybe they just didn't examine the problem carefully as most people would. Or more likely, he just wanted a "snow day" at home!

There are a lot of book-smart people who don't have a lot of street smarts, common sense, or a wide knowledge base beyond their specialty.
But maybe she was joking.
That would be scary being stuck in there until who knows when!

I'm thinking when you are in a panic your brain just starts thinking the worst.  I 'know' I could live awhile without food/water, but if I was trapped, that is a whole other story.