oh you enjoy the love of a close and supportive family? well sometimes i get to pull people out of the mud with my winch. you can't even conceive of happiness like this.
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I play an instinct honing game of intuiting what random item someone will need today. Then I get to be the guy who randomly has (for instance) a magnet, casually in his pocket when one is unexpectedly needed. One must remain nonchalant to retain the coolness but inside I'm glee-ing like a toddler
Last fall I pulled out a multimeter to help someone chase down a bad connection in their camper. I’ve handed out fuses, hardware, and jumpstarted other vehicles more times than my own. It’s the best!
When the power goes out and I pull out my flashlight. Yeah, I'll be telling that story to my friend's children and grand children and great grand children.
I have a tricked out 4runner and love to cruise around with a friend or two, smoke weed, listen to podcasts and pull out stuck cars in the winter. I carry a jumpbox for a similar thrill.
broadly speaking the two kinds of peppers are: selfish monsters who want to hide on safety while the world burns and people who experience a full body orgasm when someone needs the multi tool they carry at all times.
i’ll be more than happy to make you godfather of my two young sons in exchange for their potential future access to your prepper stash if needed. #winwin
One of my happiest memories is an Uzbek man asking me for a knife and unfolding my leatherman and giving it to him. Shortly after he asked for pliers, when he saw them come out of the same tool his face was priceless.
I’m not a prepper but I’m never happier than when someone needs a bottle opener and I can use the one I have on my keychain, which feels like the same neighborhood
Hear! Hear! Just hosted a Prepper 101 Day at our place and made everyone eat some of my preps for lunch. I also came in in a pinch for a medical emergency for other friends a couple weeks ago.
trained on diaper bag duty to mend, feed, and soothe an army, and the effect now of being asked for that one thing i keep in my bag at all times is essentially like a saint's illumination illustration in a medieval manuscript
> me when driving through the Mojave and coming upon unprepared motorists and hikers and I get to deploy everything in my survive-cheap-and-compact arsenal
This is the exact same feeling you get when someone asks if you have a cable for their electronic device and you pull out that box full of old cables from the last 35 years of your life and you happen to have one that works.
I get a hint of that every time someone needs a cutting tool and I whip out my utility knife. They all think I'm a weirdo for carrying it until they need something opened...
I’m the kinda pepper that likes being able to help with all the random skills and equipment, tools, food etc I’ve managed to get or grow. Idk about orgasm but yeah it’s nice to help or teach those who want to learn and didn’t grow up rural and nerdy.
I got so fed up with mine, given all the terms of art that I use, that I just turned mine off. Sometimes I have to deal with a real typo because of that, but at least they're *my* mistakes, dammit.
I bought a little credit-card shaped multitool with a knife, a bottle opener, a screwdriver. One time my kid got a hair tourniquet on his finger on a road trip, and I was able to cut it right off. Screaming child, surprise knife, problem solved!
I got to use the para cord I’ve been carrying in my bag for three years on Saturday to lash a broken stroller back together. It worked well enough to last the rest of the day. I know this because I saw the family again hours later. It was great!
I think this also goes with people who own pickup trucks that aren't messy- they are either selfish, metal pedestrian murder whales cramming themselves into the compact parking spot at Wholefoods... Or that person who is down to drive you to IKEA whenever just for the joy of it.
My husband and I were on vacation walking in some remote wooden pier in Florida. My husband got a splinter and as we were tying to pick it out someone came by with a multi tool and helped get it out and I could telepathically hear the “always be prepared” mantra in his head. It was cool!
the ones who hide in safety are on their own when the shit hits the fan. If they are short of ANYTHING, they are basically defenseless. A limited range of skills, few or no remaining trusted social contacts, large hoards of needed supplies but no backup.
Someone asked for a flash light the other day because their phone was dead and the sheer ecstasy I felt because I got to offer them the flashlight I carry everyday. Nearly an out of body experience
One of the MANY rabbit holes I have fallen into because of your shows ended up with me joining a SAR/Vehicle recovery volunteer group over in CO. It is SO satisfying and I have spent SO much time and money (partially) because of you! Worth it. For the orgasms of course.
There's something to be said about feeling useful.
I keep blister packs of meds in my 'make life bearable' kit and always keep loperamide and that has saved me and others so much. Diarrhea when you're not at home is fucking miserable.
Is this one of those window breakers you’re supposed to carry if you live in Florida so if you drive into a swampy ditch next to the highway and your car becomes submerged and loses power you can break the window from the inside to get out?
Working in animal care taught me long ago to keep extra tools & supplies at hand. It’s not even a conscious effort anymore, it’s always available to me or my coworkers. And I mindlessly refill supplies as I walk by them.
I over-prepare for field trips and overnight trips with students and I get that same satisfaction when someone needs the random thing I hauled halfway around the world
Me, in my partner’s fully stocked kitchen, convincing her that the back of the saw blade on my swiss army knife is actually the best tool for peeling ginger.
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Me, excited
"I CAN HELP!"
The secondary market is borderline ridiculous.
Oh my God, I got to use my multitool
"Weather ain't too bad, I'll make do with a lean-to"
Youre a Pepper
Don’t you wanna be
A Pepper too
(Wait, that didn’t sound right).
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VeTh72OVz0w
The rest, absolutely. Bring snacks for everyone and there is 100% a rush when someone says 'What now?' and you have a solution ready to go on hand.
I keep blister packs of meds in my 'make life bearable' kit and always keep loperamide and that has saved me and others so much. Diarrhea when you're not at home is fucking miserable.
The above posted is a bottle opener, phillips head, mini-prybar etc.