Scott Frost shares his insights from our newsletter:
Most glove compartments are a little strange.
Somewhere inside there’s usually a combination of things that made perfect sense at one point in time.
An owner’s manual nobody has opened in years.
Three fast food napkins.
A flashlight that may or may not work.
Twenty-seven insurance cards from policies that expired sometime during the Obama administration.
And at least one pen that’s given up on life entirely.
We tend to treat our glove compartments like tiny time capsules of things we might need someday.
(Or glorified trash bins.)
Most of it isn’t important.
But every now and then, something tucked away in there matters quite a bit.
A current insurance card.
Your vehicle registration.
The sort of things you hope you’ll never need in a hurry.
Most people don’t spend much time thinking about car accidents.
That’s probably a good thing.
They’re unexpected by definition.
Most of us go years without ever thinking about what’s tucked away in our glove compartments.
And that’s exactly how we hope it stays.
But every now and then, one ordinary day becomes anything but ordinary.
That’s when all of those wonderfully uninteresting things suddenly become very important.
When that happens, you’ll never wish you’d been less prepared.
You might, however, wish you’d replaced that dead pen.
— Scott Frost
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