Also three meals away from: revolution, anarchy, collapse. One of many great quotes that are regularly attributed to everyone's favorite, recent source. It's also been attributed to Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Lenin, Robert Heinlein. Earliest print paraphrasing Alfred Henry Lewis (nine meals).

It must have the ring of truth to it, to survive so long and offered as wisdom from so many sources.

You're right. We need to figure out how to do better than the mice.