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Picture this. You’re at a friend’s place helping that friend assemble their new barbecue and disover to your amazement that they don’t have any sort of Phillips screwdriver in the place, yet they need one to start that assembly. Or, how about this? You and a couple of your cousins show up at your widowed Aunt Mary’s place to help fix her old, broken fence. Your Uncle Tom used to be quite the handyman, but Aunt Mary can find only one of his old hammers, and has no idea where the other ones might be. Suddenly your plans to make use of some of his old tools have hit a major stumbling block.
There are all sorts of well designed, compactly packed, emergency tool kits that could be kept in your car or truck for that “just in case” moment. There are emergency shovels, emergency preparedness kits in bottles, flares, and flashlights that can be used to smash windows to escape a sinking or burning vehicle when the doors are stuck. You might have emergency rations, emergency lighting, or a sleeping bag or two for use when finding yourself stalled on the highway during a winter storm or while confronted with roads that have been closed due to some disaster ahead.
Those are all good ideas, but why not also consider keeping a well stocked tool box in that car or truck. There are all sorts of scenarios that could arise where you might appreciate having a hamer, or a saw. or a Phillips screwdriver, or whatever handy and at the ready for use when needed. These things just possibly could also prove of some use during an emergency. Or they just might simply prove to be of great convenience to have there. They could save you time, trouble and extra trips, and there is a lot to be said for that.