It's Always Good To Be Prepared

You know, I'm a guy, & like most guys, I find it a bit insulting when someone tells me I gotta do something. There's nothing that will make me "not" do something faster than having someone tell me I gotta do it!

So when I know I gotta do something, and I'm just getting ready to do it, and my wife (or anyone else) comes along and says "hey, you know you should.....", well, that's it. Now I gotta find another way to do whatever it was I was going to do until she (or whoever) came along and told me I had to do it!

Like when you're getting ready to go camping for the week end and you're thinking "hmmn, maybe I should make a list so I don't forget anything" and your wife comes along and tells you you should make a list of all the stuff you need so you don't forget any important stuff. Wow! Now what are you gonna do? Easy enough, you just reply with "I don't need no stinking list" and go about packing everything you can think of except..... the camp stove, sleeping bags, and dang it, I know I threw that tent in there somewhere. Have you ever had this happen to you? Yeah, I thought so.

So after this happens for the third or fourth time, you secretly make a camping list and the next time you are getting ready to head out for the week end, you use it, you check everything off as you load it up, and then you double check it once more before you leave the driveway! And what happens next could be considered a modern miracle: You actually enjoy the drive to your destination because you're not constantly having to reassure your other half that you didn't forget anything, you actually get to eat food cooked on your brand new cook stove that you bought two years ago, you'll sleep warm & cozy in your practically unused down sleeping bag, and when you wake up in the morning warm and dry because you actually had a tent to shelter you from that spring shower last night, you realize how good it is to be prepared!