Originally Posted By: Jeanette_Isabelle
I don't get this at all. Experience has always been my best prep teacher. Every time a situation I was unprepared for came up, I then on was prepped for that situation.

I'll give an example. I began prepping when I was a child. It happened in the checkout line of a grocery store when suddenly I needed to sneeze. All I had were my two hands. Fortunately a woman, also in the checkout line, handed me a Kleenex. Then on I had a Kleenex Pocket Pack on my person when I left the house.

Jeanette Isabelle


Different learned lesson. Your experience was that having a random stranger hand you a Kleenex when you needed it was an aberration. Most people don't carry Kleenex with them, so you were lucky. Your takeaway was that you will need to sneeze in the future, but it's unlikely that there will be a random stranger with a handy Kleenex, so you need to now carry Kleenex for sneezing. Their experience was that they were rescued from the same predicament last time, so they will be rescued from the same predicament in the future. They didn't take into account that SAR is not always available or successful.
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