My friends have a lot of funny jokes about me.
I understand that they’re just poking fun and it’s all in good spirits, so I don’t mind when they pick on my particular quirks.
I know that I am a bit of an odd bird, so it makes sense that there is plenty to joke about. One of the things that they find most entertaining as my penchant for always over preparing. If we’re headed on a trip, I’m going to be the person who brings two bags too many. I’ll have plenty of snacks, first aid supplies, and backup entertainment sources. I’m always ready for the worst case scenario. They might poke fun, but in the end I end up saving us with my preparedness. Recently, they were joking because we were headed out of town for a week and I brought some unusual supplies. In the back of my car, they found a couple of space heaters that I wanted to bring along. For some reason, this was absolutely hilarious to all of my buddies. They couldn’t imagine a single situation in which we would need a backup heating source. Personally, I could think of 10 or 20. It didn’t seem like a big stretch that we would run into some heating issues and ultimately need an alternative form of warmth. Sure enough, when we arrived at the cabin and we found that the pilot light was out on the forced air furnace. While we waited for the property owner to give us instructions on resetting of the heating system, I smugly went out to the car and gathered my space heaters.