Wyatt, You are “prepared”, like that you carry “two” knives and would hunt with someone like you anytime —- if I lose my knife, know I can borrow yours !!
TANKS, we think alike. Although if I’m ever pinned underneath a “Train” I think my Screaming & Crying like a Woman —— will get the Rescuers attention !!When I was a teen, I read a quote from industrialist George Pullman where he explained why he always carried a $100 bill. He said that if he ever was in a train accident and was buried he would extend his hand with the bill in it in order to get the rescuers' attention.
In other words, for emergencies. Since then, I always carry the aforementioned $100 bill, adjusted for inflation, and it sure has come handy.
It is not the only thing I carry when leaving the house every day.
If I provide assistance to someone in need, I expect no gratuity ... and indeed I will not accept one. That is the way I was brought up. The person who assists me can accept a promise to reward him when internet is available. Anyone who gets indignant about the delay doesn't deserve compensation ... but will receive it anyway ... at my convenience. Since COVID I stopped carrying any cash at all (some cash goes with me to Africa for tips but I don't carry it except during transit there). Eating out I pay with card and all portable machines now have the option to add a tip. Carrying around a hundred dollar bill had a lot more utility in Pullman's day when there were no debit cards and he rode to work in a carriage or behind a steam locomotive. Anyway I certainly do not look on that guy as any kind of role model. Google "Pullman Strike."
ONTARIO HUNTER - while YOU would Not expect or accept any monetary compensation for helping someone - and many people on this Forum would also help others for free - because it’t “the right thing to do”….there are others in this World that might not be as nice. Citing how you can “eating out” and pay with a credit card or access a cash machine is irrelevant and a poor examaple for this discussion. In any type of emergency situation cash “could” be helpful and would almost Never make things worse. “Carrying a $100 bill” during “Pullman Days” - ?? A $100 cash (5/20s or 10/10s etc..) is still welcome by “most”. My scenario was in a “what if” situation where you are unable to access technology and if having some “cash” would be helpful? You are reluctant to even acknowledge there are times that “might” be the case. SO, please let me know circumstances where having some extra cash$$ on you is detrimental ? I know you will come up with something, you have to but i do like your examples as they get “creative” and well off the beaten path - I expect you are resourseful and can get out of some tight spots on your own when needed…. Disappointed that someone born after 1990 would rely so heavily on “technology” - next you’ll be attending a Taylor Swift concert !!
I was born forty years before 1990.
Seatbelts are just so the rescuers know where to find the bodies.For somebody on that train has a knife to cut the seatbelts
Ontario, I‘ve got “responses” but there’s no point as You are as set in your ways as concrete …as most of us Old Guys are. Watch the Super Bowl this Sunday, it’s a lot like your Grey Cup only with better athletes that are even more over paid, similar to Hockey only the score is usually higher then “1” at the end…and of course Canadians could never match the arrest & conviction records of our PROS…
If I have to buy some Good Samaritan's assistance during an emergency, I'm not sure I would trust that assistance to be helpful. Keep on driving down the road, pal.
Carrying Canadian cash is detrimental because the slippery stuff has a way of climbing out of my pocket ... constantly. Go to the bank and ask for a hundred dollars Canadian, carry it around in your pocket for a week, and you'll see what I mean. Using cards is much better for the economy too. It moves money faster. And the faster money moves, the more productive the economy. For example, few years back Canada did the wise thing and eliminated pennies. Made sense. Costs like seven cents to make each penny and people threw them away like they were paper cups. Everything is still dollars and cents up here. If the customer pays cash, the price is rounded off to nearest nickel. Pay with card and it's the exact amount. So people were encouraged to use cards. Great. Keep the currency moving and working instead of home in a jar or laying useless on the curb.
I don't care for Taylor Swift ... but I'm not stuck in Frank Sinatra mode either.
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You should have asked him before he retired. Active duty has at least %30 discount with Benchmade.
As I predicted... next will be hand to hand knife fighting lolol...
And mid-size for no less useful but broader application.
