A couple of years ago, I found a unique item tucked away in my Christmas stocking amidst the socks, flashlight and accompanying batteries, chocolate bars and fruit (fruit? What’s that for?). It was a small book – The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook.
A quick study of this book – written by Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht – found it to be exactly what its title indicates. It’s a book that details how to survive under numerous perilous scenarios. Things like “How to Escape from Quicksand” and “How to Survive a Poisonous Snake Attack” and “How to Jump from a Building into a Dumpster” and “How to Treat a Bullet or Knife Wound.”
What I found when reading the handbook was that I was extremely ill-prepared for any type of emergency that would require me to live. In each scenario the book gave, my survival instincts would have gotten me killed, according to the expert recommendations.
