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Ok, I carry a small day pack everywhere I go and on all the zipper tongues, I carry 12" of Para-Cord braided to about 3 inches, for "emergencies". Usually to the ribbing of friends and family for being a preparedness freak.
Well after last night, they ain't laughing no more!
Some background, I am a bi-lateral amputeee, which is a fancy way of saying I haven't got any legs from the knee down. Anyway, I drive with handcontrols, and last night about 9:45 as I was taking a new underpass close to a "bad" part of a town about 30 miles from where I live, the brake arm broke off my handcontrols. I got the car stopped in a parking lot without hitting anything, and called my family thinking I was going to need someone to come drive my car home for me. Realizing that this wasn't the best area to be stranded in, I began trying to "patch" the swivel socket that was broken so I could get out of there. I quickly undid one of the lenghts of Para-Cord I carry, put the socket back together and wrapped it like a knife handle, tied it off, tested it around the parking lot to make sure it would hold, then drove all the way home safely.
Yeah we may take some crap for being prepared, but sometimes it pays off!
Well after last night, they ain't laughing no more!
Some background, I am a bi-lateral amputeee, which is a fancy way of saying I haven't got any legs from the knee down. Anyway, I drive with handcontrols, and last night about 9:45 as I was taking a new underpass close to a "bad" part of a town about 30 miles from where I live, the brake arm broke off my handcontrols. I got the car stopped in a parking lot without hitting anything, and called my family thinking I was going to need someone to come drive my car home for me. Realizing that this wasn't the best area to be stranded in, I began trying to "patch" the swivel socket that was broken so I could get out of there. I quickly undid one of the lenghts of Para-Cord I carry, put the socket back together and wrapped it like a knife handle, tied it off, tested it around the parking lot to make sure it would hold, then drove all the way home safely.
Yeah we may take some crap for being prepared, but sometimes it pays off!