Now Change The Ending
Picture the firefighter at your door again. You have ten minutes to leave, and you may not set foot in your home for days.
Could you pay for gas? A hotel? Prescriptions? Food? Could you reach money from another neighborhood, another city or another state? What happens if your phone dies? What if your wallet disappears too?
If you started scratching your head around question two, congratulations. You just found the problem while you're still sitting comfortably at home. That's exactly where we want you to find it.
Take a few minutes now to identify your primary way to access money, your backup, the emergency cash that makes sense for your family, and the secure information you'd need to recover if something stopped working.
Do that, and the next scene looks very different. The card freezes. You sigh. You use Plan B. You go back to the person, pet, evacuation or ordinary life that actually deserves your attention.