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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My husband is going away for the week with a few of his hiking buddies to hike the Appalachian. He doesn’t plan on having cell service for obvious reasons, and will be mostly unreachable. My parents are out of town and my ILs are extremely unreliable. I have no siblings, and none of my good friends live in close proximity. I keep having these visions of getting a flat tire or something and having nobody to get DC (my parents are the ICE). I’m also probably projecting, because I think deep down it’s just that I’m worried something will happen. But that doesn’t change the fact of, who will I call in an emergency?[/quote]

I'm you, a decade+ from now.

If something happens, call the daycare and let them know there's an emergency. Right now, identify a coworker and/or child's friend's parent if you can call them in an absolute emergency. I feel like a jerk doing this, because I feel like these people are acquaintances. But I've learned people are often more than happy to help out in an emergency. Even as acquaintances, they know me well enough to know I will not call on them unless I absolutely must. Wouldn't you be willing to help an acquaintance in that situation? Other people are too.

Ask a couple of people, write down their information, put it in your phone. You won't need them, but you'll feel better for having them, and you can give the people a small thank you gift afterwards if you know something that would be appropriate, or a nice thank you note. Being here a decade+ later I can also say the two people I identified as emergency backups have developed into friends I really do now feel I could depend on.

I also recommend generally having a plan for car break downs, or other reasonably foreseen emergencies. It's useful to know what towing company you like, whether AAA reasonably works for you, if you're ok leaving your car on the side of the road while you take an Uber.

You can do this.[/quote]

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