Bright Ideas: Autocrats: What the Trunk Fairy Might Bring You

	Bright Ideas and True Confessions: How and What to Do and Why Autocrats
What the Trunk Fairy Might Bring You	Sometimes one cheap little tool or item could make the whole difference in success and failure of a project, and that little thing is twenty or a hundred miles away. It would be wonderful to be able to knock on the trunk of your car and wish one of these things into it. At various times I've wished for things like safety pins tape (clear and other) wooden stakes or sticks flashlights extra water cardboard air compressor shovel sand spray cleanser paper towels rags/dish towels scissors rope/twine/string waterproof markers calligraphy equipment copy of Corpora highway map of area hammer nails/tacks extra stakes extra cloth to cover things tarps trash bags (in rain storms) rocks to weight down paper [1] broom swatter (for toilet wasps) firewood wood slats to level things salt cardboard box Bactine stapler extension cord saw work gloves rubber bands bag ties toilet paper There's no such thing as the trunk fairy. You need to take some of this stuff with you even if you don't think you'll need it.
Footnote:	[1] This is so rarely a problem in New Mexico or Colorado that when a bunch of us went to TYC near Houston we were shocked at not being able to find one single rock of any size. It was a geology lesson that will stick.
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