Heard a interesting question posed this morning.
If you were alone in the house and a fire broke out, you have a few seconds to get out, what would you grab?.
I assume most blokes would grab their wallets, a friend of my mother had this experience for real a few years ago, she says she ran out the house with the cat under one arm and a dust pan and brush in her hands, she had no idea why she grabbed the dustpan.
As I said , with me I would say me wallet,I just asked me sis in law she recons definatly her make up bag.
So prooner what is your most precious portable possesion.
:rolleyes:

I would say my house keys....

On second thoughts my ciggies.

Good question. I only have two material things in the world which are completely irreplaceable. My flying logbook. And my WeightWatchers record card. Both of them contain information which is not held anywhere else, and although I could summarise what they say, I could never get all the details back.

Even my wallet wouldn't bother me that much. I don't carry enough cash to worry about. Credit cards can be replaced. The condom is probably getting close its use-by date. And loosing my ID card for work means I couldn't get into work, which I view as a good thing!

FFF
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Well the cats have a cat-flap so they'll be able to rescue themselves.

Hmmmm, I suppose my wallet, keys and phone (very useful for calling the Fire Brigade / insurance company).

Oops, probably the g/f too :E

Serious answer... my kids.

Not so serious answer, my PC (if I could disconnect it in time), my half drunk bottle of White Lightening Cider from the fridge (just to make life bearable) and my little book with all my passwords etc. in. Oooh, and my mobile phone.

Obviously anyone who couldnt get out but otherwise silly though it maybe a box of photographs which has photos of relatives (living and departed), my children and of family occasions.
The rest is insured and can de replaced even the cash, the photographs cant be, those are my history

Probably a dressing gown... Although since firemen would be expected I might want my hairbrush too. :p

If there was still time I'd grab some photographs of long-departed family members.

I did say you are alone in the house, so we can disregard pets and kids.
Pay attention there at the back!!! :E

Right, that's enough! Aerbabe is cunningly revealing the fact that she sleeps "au naturel". That's too much information for any hot-blooded male!:O :O

Um,,,, probably as many of my guitars as I could carry.

Aerbabe, are you Dr Aerbabe yet ?

This actually happened to me, after a fashion. I was in a car crash a couple of years back & the car caught fire. I legged it out of there, with Dukes of hazard style explosions on my mind & on second thoughts, legged it back in again to get my keys, wallet & coughin nails.

Interestingly, the firemen said cars almost never explode in a front impact/fire. cos the tanks' almost always at the back & there's only a tiny amount of juice in the engine.

silly though it maybe a box of photographs

Not so silly.

Most Cyclone Tracy survivors of my acquaintance, who lost everything when their homes were flattened, mourn the loss of their photos above all else. (Except where they lost a family member too.)

Our cyclone evacuation checklist starts with insurance docs and photos having equal billing....then the 'portable valuables'.

The first Guitar I bought, a beautiful cherry Les Paul. Not the most valuable, but it's been with me since my early teens, we've been through some times together and it's unique enough to be irreplaceable. All the finishes come out different, see? A new one just wouldn't be the same...

As for logbooks, etc., (sorry to slip into native IT nerd parlance) all that is covered by offsite digital backups, as is, increasingly, my photo collection, although as that project is nowhere near finished I'd also be stumbling through the smoke clutching as many photo albums as I could carry.

Everything else, pah, insurance job.

SSS

1st load out the door.... the car keys, phone, laptop, photos and the cat...

2nd load... toothbrush, change of undies, and my uniform that I always seem to have ready to go...

by now Ive lost the carkeys, the phone is flat, the charger is in the smoke someplace, the laptop power cord is with the charger and the cat does the bolt.

but I still have my toothbrush and photos and something to do...

oh yeah, given I appreciate my toothbrush, I must be out alive and well... that my mother would be thankful for.

Getting out with my tooshie intact is good enough for me.

Yeah, agree with most. Sorry, Drapes, if I was by myself with no kids/pets I'd just get out, whatever is in there can be replaced and is trivial.

It's been hammered home to me over the years that if the unthinkable ever did occur and there was time to grab something, forget everything except the photos. And the Binoettes have been brainwashed with the same deal :)

I know digital duplication of all those old photographs now helps, and Fotowhatever it is is a nice program, but holy Jesus, has anybody ever completed the job in less than a year? Full time? Surely there's got to be a quicker way?

Um,,,, probably as many of my guitars as I could carry.

Aerbabe, are you Dr Aerbabe yet ?

Well Binos, get yerself a scanner with a negative reader/transparency lamp, shortens the job somewhat but in no way is it a quick fix... I'm digitising new films as they come in so the backlog isn't getting any bigger, but the old ones, still chipping away a photo at a time... Reckon I've done 10% of my collection. Be worthwhile when it's done though, eh? And no colour fade...

SSS

My teddy bear. Every thing else is replacable, Mr Robinson sure isn't!

My bloody Prosthesis of course.............ggggggggggeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Car keys, wallet and laptop.

insurance docs and the car from the attached garage

Ozzy

My family history & genealogy records....years of diligent, but frustrating research....

The cat, piccies of my dearly beloved dead granny, my teddy bear, and my mobile phone.....in that order too I guess!!:rolleyes:

I would grab everything that is precious to me and ride my motorcycle to safety.

I would then piss myself laughing as every thing of mine that is in it is insured and all my photos are on 4 CD,s in the bank and the house is not mine and probably burnt down because the owners have ignored the Tennant's request to have the wiring checked for 3 years.

Burn baby burn!

I think the point mentioned elsewhere is that despite all this fine planning, people being people tend to grab daft things in these circumstances.
So I can picture prooners covered in soot rushing out into the street , sans teeth,wig ,wooden leg, and wallet carrying a turnip.

:(

I remember waking up once at about 3 am to the sound of a burst water main and the resultant flooding of all rooms in the house.
What was the first thing I grabbed and relocated to the top of a wardrobe?
My scuba gear.
God knows why.

sep

This would be my worst nightmere.

I've spent my whole life collecting stuff. Things like records, old radios, watches and jukeboxes, not to mention cars and aircraft (not that they are in my house - but the paperwork is...)

Ok, Ok it might be junk to most people (and the insurance company) but I really love this stuff.

I'd probably be found burned to death, wedged in my doorway behind my beloved 1960 Rowe-Ami Tropicana, watches up my arms, clutching my signed Otis Redding album. Nearby would be burnt rements of aircraft reg docs, my cherished XJS service book and my MK1 Cortina handbook.

On second thoughts - I'm going down with my ship.
:E

Kingy (pyroman):}

Photo negatives (too many photos to cary) and a credit card. I know the card is easy to replace but I need a hotel room NOW as my house has burnt down.