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7 lessons for campers: the only way I survived the festival summer
by Stefanie Lechthaler
"Every Day Carry" neurosis: My rucksack is full of things that I hardly ever need but always want to have with me
21.10.2020
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You can recognise them by their thick rucksacks, from which they conjure up this or that pack full of bandages or tools to make life easier for themselves and others: the EDC nerds. I am one of them.
Life is full of pitfalls: a shoelace breaks, the bike chain pops out, a lightning strike destroys all the electronic data at home, the escort gets her period earlier than expected, a screw has to be tightened somewhere, the child scrapes their knee or someone gets seriously injured. And then you're left looking stupid and can't do anything because you're not properly equipped.
Unless you're an EDC nerd - for "Every day carry". We EDC nerds always have everything we could possibly need with us. This subjunctive mood sets us apart from people who only carry things they actually need in everyday life - and then unsuccessfully try to stop an arterial haemorrhage with paper tissues because they don't have a tourniquet with them.
1st pack "Everyday life"
2nd pack of "tools"
3rd pack "First aid small"
4th pack "First aid acute"
- Tourniquet (sling for clamping blood vessels)
- Pressure bandage
- Rescue blanket
5th pack "Hygiene"
EDC is not just equipment. It's an attitude that could be described as forward-looking realism: You realise that pretty much nothing will happen, but something could happen at any time. An old friend of mine is an emergency doctor and regularly works in air rescue. He once said: "You know, people leave the house in the morning thinking it's going to be a day like any other, and by the afternoon they're in the helicopter with me."
The only downside: when I go shopping, I can hardly fit anything in my rucksack, it's so bulky. But I wouldn't be a real EDC nerd if I didn't always have a folded shopping bag with me!
Are you an EDC nerd too? What do you always have with you? Write it in the comments!
Thomas Meyer
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tacheles@thomasmeyer.chAuthor Thomas Meyer was born in Zurich in 1974. He worked as a copywriter before publishing his first novel «The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch» in 2012. He's a father of one, which gives him a great excuse to buy Lego. More about Thomas: www.thomasmeyer.ch.
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