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Don’t Make Yourself a Target

Gulp! Joe Junior here and I’m in big trouble. I just read this:

If your neighbors’ kids are hungry 10 days into a disaster that has no end in sight and their parents have seen your year’s supply of food, you can guarantee that they’re going to do whatever they need to get food for their kids.

That’s from Lesson One of David Morris’ Survive in Place: 12-Week Urban Preparedness Course. (I’m only 7 but Dad thought I should take this course – it sure is more exciting than math homework).

After reading the first lesson, I just realized I’ve been making a big mistake.

Please don’t tell Dad.

I’ve been bragging to all the kids at school about how much food and seeds and silver we’ve got hidden in our home in case something bad happens.

But David’s course says I should keep quiet. If some bad thing does happen then all those kids are going to tell their parents how we got dried food and protein powder and even water cleaning tablets. Then all those kids’ parents will surround our house. And then I don’t know what’ll happen.

I think I’ll be grounded… that’s for sure.

The Survive in Place course points out a few other ways people make themselves a target (like putting NRA stickers on your car). Fortunately I haven’t done any of those other things.

So maybe, just maybe, all the kids at school will forget about the 155-year supply of food I told them we have (I was exaggerating anyway).

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This post was written by Joe Jr. on Thursday, August 12, 2010 and tagged as: Big Mistake, Big Trouble, Dad, Disaster, Math Homework, Neighbors, Nra, Parents, People, Preparedness, Protein Powder, Seeds, Stickers, Target, Those Kids