Frank Slootweg wrote:


Highly unlikely, in any city large enough to support an
opera company! (In any case, we all have to die sometime,
and I'm sure family and friends would get the message if I
didn't return as scheduled, and had not so-informed them.)


Sigh! The "you" in my last (quoted) sentence is obviously the generic
you, i.e. not you personally. (Clue: "everybody").

Really? You WERE replying to my post, after all.

There are always people willing to relieve you of your
money, selling "essential" products for which the need is
non-existent (or at best slight). I just choose not to be
suckered in.


Exactly which part(s) of the OP's "What if you break a leg out on the
trail? What will happen to you if nobody knows where to find you?"
didn't you understand? Something is not "being suckered in" just because
*you* don't need it.

Obviously you're one of the suckers who'll BUY that sort of
expensive junk. "A fool and his money are soon parted." I
refuse to waste any more time with this idiotic exchange.
(P-L-O-N-K!)