Yesterday our local water utility left a notice in our front door saying that due to some sort of maintenance on a water main our water "might" be off today from 11:00AM-5:00PM.
OK no big deal. My Darling Bride read the notice after I did and was pretty freaked out. "How are we going to make it without water?", she asked. I could see an almost panic striken look in her eyes.
No let me describe our situation: Both my Darling Bride and I will be home all day (on vacation this week) with our dog. We have no children living at home.
I quickly went through a mental checklist:
a) plenty of drinking water stored in garage...check
b) 4 10Gal water containers filled and stored in garage...check
I assured DB that we would be fine and even brought a case of water in from the garage and put it in the fridge. "What about the toilets?" she asked. Brought in a 10Gal water jug from garage and explained to her we could use that for flushing.

A questions she always asks me:
"Why do you have all that stuff in the garage?"

She just doesn't get it.