If you’ve ever fallen down and scraped your knee, if you’ve ever smashed your thumb with a hammer, or if you’ve ever stepped on a carpentry nail, then you know how crucial a first aid kit can be in certain situations.  There are certain injuries when a bandaid just won’t cut it: You’ve got to yank that screw out of your elbow, wipe the rust out of the wound, stuff some gauze in the hole, and wrap it up in a bandage.

Somehow those kinds of accidents never seem to happen at home, either, so it’s important that your first aid kit be portable. I keep one in the trunk of my car.
Here’s an interesting thought… do NASCAR drivers keep first aid kits in the trunks of their racecars? Do they even have trunks in those things?  I guess they probably don’t—I mean, those tail lights look painted on.  I suppose they keep the first aid kit in the glove compartment.