“The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men, Gang aft agley,” is how Robert Burns wrote it.
But we know it better like this…the best laid plans of mice and men often go astray.

I encourage people to have an emergency plan. My close group has one. I’ve also said the most likely thing to happen with such a plan is that people will lose their copy. The best we can hope for is that they remember enough of it when the time comes.

But just as likely, it won’t work for another reason. You might be out of the box. That means you could be in a location that will simply not relate to the emergency plan. Out on the highway. Visiting a friend. An infinite number of possibilities, because life means movement. All of us are on the move a great deal of the time, and that leaves us vulnerable to being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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