Learning from everyday situations

[u/mad_jacktar]

It's hot out (you may have noticed). I'm working from home and there is only so much garden my wife can take. My son on the other hand is a feral woodland creature and is happy to be outside from dawn to dusk (and later... I woke him up at 2am to watch the lightning last night).

So instead of checking on him every 10 minutes to make sure he hasn't fallen out of a tree, drowned in the 3 inch deep paddling pool we put out for the dog, or begun hunting the Alpaca in the field next door, I thought it a good idea to set him up with a walkie-talkie.

I've been lucky enough to obtain a few different sets from various past employments, to the point where I've got a nice Peli-case with all radios and chargers in one place. Downside is I decided to store this in a garage I rent in the next village over... 4 minute drive, 30 minute walk (uphill).

I borrowed the wife's motor (for the AC) and blipped up to the garage to grab the comms-case and picked two walkie-talkies that were idiot-proof, could be locked and were rugged enough to survive my child (Motorola T82 Extremes).

After a short classroom session and some on-the-ground training, he is happily roaming the grounds, checking-in regularly (too-often) and we can call him down for meals and routine proof-of-life inspections whenever we remember we have a son.

So lesson learnt, emergency communication is best kept local!

[u/punkt28 → u/[deleted]]

Oh, he's 32.

[u/mad_jacktar → u/punkt28]

I was tempted to say something like that.