Hey! This has been a blast of a thread to go through. It brings back memories of my family playing the 'What If' game at the dinner table.

I was once able to stop a mocking freind of mine(who has since gone one knife camping with me) when he said that it was a waste of time to do this 'survival' stuff. I reminded him that less than five minutes before, he had bemoaned that he didn't have a tool to do something in a dark place under his computer desk. I handed him my VicMultitool out of my pocket and held the flashlight I have on a lanyard on my belt as he fixed whatever it was. Wasn't it good that I had been prepaired to 'survive'?
Utter silence for a few minutes with a glare in my direction.
I was gloating for a week after that. And gave him one of my old Scout knives to go along with that crow.

Rena