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Veterans Day week, so here's one from the veteran who started this company.
Five things I taught my wife and my daughter. Two minutes, nothing to buy.
Number three is the one nobody thinks about.
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Teaching the family: one word for the car.
Pick a word that means "everybody out, now, come to me." "Out" works fine. Then practice it once in the driveway, like a fire drill:
1. Kids old enough to unbuckle themselves practice doing it fast.
2. Everyone gets out on the same side, away from traffic.
3. Leave everything. Backpacks, phones, the car.
4. Come to you, then to the nearest open store with people in it.
Ten minutes on a Saturday. They'll remember it because they did it, not because you told them.
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Yesterday's question: after dark, a car you don't recognize idling across from your house, someone inside.
Most of the time it's a rideshare waiting on a pickup, a delivery driver checking an address, or somebody's guest.
You don't have to figure out which. If it feels fine, pull in like normal. If it doesn't, drive past and come back around in a few minutes. Either way, you noticed it, and noticing is the whole skill.
Still there and something feels off? That's what the non-emergency line is for.
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Nov. 2, about 10:50 at night, a hotel loading zone in Waikiki. Police say a man with a knife ordered a 21-year-old out of his car.
His 19-year-old sister and two younger siblings, 12 and 9, were in the car too. All four got out. No one in the family was hurt. Police were still looking for the man when the paper reported it.
The car can be replaced. The family can't. They got that part exactly right.
If you drive with kids, it's worth one conversation. More on that tomorrow.
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Source: Honolulu Star-Advertiser — staradvertiser.com/2026/11/0…
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To my brothers and sisters who served: thank you. 🇺🇸
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From one vet to another, thank you for your service.
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Today is Veterans Day. To everyone who served, and the families who served right alongside you: thank you.
A question for the veterans here: what habit did you bring home from service that you still do without thinking?
Sitting where you can see the door. Checking your gear twice. Knowing where the exits are before you sit down. Whatever yours is, we'd like to hear it.
#VeteransDay
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After dark, you pull onto your street. A car you don't recognize is idling across from your house, someone inside.
What's your first move?
0%Pull in, go inside
100%Drive past, loop back
0%Stay in, doors locked
0%Call a neighbor first
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Habit of the Week: back in, or pull through.
Park so your first move out is forward. You leave seeing everything in front of you instead of craning over your shoulder in a busy lot.
It costs ten seconds when you arrive, when you have time. It saves them when you leave, when you might not. Where the lot allows it, every time this week.
#situationalawareness
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Early Saturday morning, 4:50 a.m., Lake Avenue in Colorado Springs. Police say a man crashed his car, and a driver passing by stopped to help him.
The man pulled a gun and drove off in the helper's car. Police hadn't found him when KRDO reported it.
Stopping was the right thing to do. What happened next is on the man who did it.
For the next time any of us comes up on a crash in the dark: you can help a lot from inside your car. Call 911 first and give the exact spot. Hazards on, doors locked, and talk through a cracked window until help gets there.
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Readiness isn't a feeling you get when something seems off.
It's what you already did. The doors you locked. The mirror you checked. The spot you picked. The person at home who knows where you are.
By the time you need it, it's either done or it isn't.
Be your own first responder, step one: know where you are.
If you called 911 right now, could you tell them? On the highway it's the mile marker and which direction. In town, the nearest cross street. In a parking lot, the store and which side of it.
Your phone shares a location, but it isn't always exact. Saying it yourself saves time.
#preparedness
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Hunting season is open in a lot of states, which means a lot of trucks parked at trailheads before dawn.
Before you walk away from yours:
1. Someone at home knows where you parked and when you'll be back.
2. Drop a pin on your phone. Service at the truck isn't always there on the ridge.
3. Keys on you, in a zipped pocket.
In the truck: firearm or self-defense tool, trauma kit, headlamp, water, a warm layer, phone charger.
Good luck out there.
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Yesterday's question: night, highway, tire light on, next exit 8 miles away.
A tire light means low pressure, not always a flat. If the car still drives normally, slow down, hazards on, and make for the next exit with lights and people: a gas station beats a dark shoulder. Air, light, and help are all there.
If it pulls, shakes, or you can hear it, don't push it. Get as far off the road as you safely can.
Either way, tell someone where you are. More on that tomorrow.
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3:30 on a Thursday afternoon, a Chevron in Berkeley. Police say a woman pointed what looked like a handgun at another woman and demanded her keys.
She ran to safety. Witnesses identified the suspect, and police arrested her a few blocks away.
The weapon turned out to be a realistic-looking BB gun. Nobody can tell that in the moment, and nobody should have to find out. She put distance first. A car can be replaced.
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