Susan,

You know how some people stroll through life, completely unprepared, and yet NOTHING ever happens to them? Well, my brother and brother-in-law are pretty much like that. I love them both dearly and certainly don't want anything to happen to them.

That said, whenever I demonstrate a newly acquired item I've added to my preparedness kit, my family generally tends to point to my bro and my bro-in-law as examples, saying, but THEY don't carry such things.

I am firmly in the minority around here. My bro might be carrying his SOG CrossCut, but that's about it. My bro-in-law is a true minimalist and optimist, in every sense of the word.

He dislikes carrying anything at all, even a wallet and keys. He carries only his car key and house key. That's it for keys. No wallet. Just his license and a credit card, and maybe a little bit of cash. Nothing else.

His attitude is, nothing bad will happen. And nothing bad ever does happen to him. If things go wrong, he treats it as a grand adventure and shrugs it off.

He's always happy, accepting of what life hands him, and has a very Zen outlook. Sigh. I'd love to be more like him, but I can't.

-- Craig (trying to accept the pessimistic, cynical, and paranoid inner me)

Well, that's two prepared NY-ers. I wonder how many million are left to go?

-- Craig

Well Dad is always prepaired (where do you think I got the _Be prepared_ attitude from), and I have at least 2 co-workers who are always prepared, and I know of at least 3 friends who are prepared - so that makes 8 of us, so you DO have a 1 in a Million chance..... <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

That's something, anyway.

-- Craig