More than that, at night there was nobody around to tell him what to do. At Auschwitz he dreamed of such a time. You think you know everything, but you don't know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you have a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
Life is inconvenience.
Life is lumpy. Learn to separate the inconveniences from the real problems. You will live longer. And will not annoy people like me so much. In a gesture combining dismissal and blessing, he waved the young man off to bed.