LOCKED IN A SECOND FLOOR BATHROOM WITH A TWO YEAR OLD

When Lorig was three years old, Marash Girl was actively interviewing survivors of the Armenian Genocide, recording their stories of survival for posterity . . . [those interviews are available at the Armenian Museum of America in Watertown, Massachusetts, as well as at the Library of Congress] . On with the memory --

Marash Girl often took one of her children with her, well behaved as they were, on the venture.  While interviewing an elderly Armenian woman in her second floor apartment in Watertown, Massachusetts, little Lorig had to use the bathroom, which she did, with aplomb.  Independent as she was, she carefully locked the bathroom door upon entering the bathroom, but . . . you've probably guessed the next sentence from the title of this blog  . . . when she was ready to leave the bathroom, she could not unlock that door. Unbeknownst to us, the woman we were visiting never locked the bathroom door because it could never be unlocked. . . Vaht to do . . .

We called the Watertown Fire Department, hoping that they could help, and even though the bathroom windows in that apartment were tiny, the wonderful Watertown, Massachusetts, Fire Department made it through, unlocked that bathroom door, and the rest is history . . . as recorded here . . .Thank you, Watertown Fire Department, and all emergency services that are out there to save us from certain disaster.

N.B. Marash Girl checked with Lorig yesterday, just to be certain that this memory was not a nightmare but a reality; she confirmed that it was a reality AND a nightmare.