For years, I carried a flashlight in my handbag. This was ONLY because I frequently had to use an elevator and was fairly phobic about getting stuck in there without light. I felt pretty silly for doing this, and even had several female friends laugh about my lugging along a flashlight. They pointed out that most elevators have emergency lights.

Once I started reading this site, I went back to carrying two different sizes of flashlights in my handbag. I check both lights fairly frequently. My new phobia is that I'll be caught with dead batteries. <img src="images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />