history: I had just packed a roadside emergency kit in my car when a snowstorm hit and stranded me on a back road. I am so glad that I decided to pack a kit for my car in case of bad winter weather. I bet you are_comma_ that's some pretty good foresight right there! Did you have to use it this past winter?
current: I did, two days after packing it we had a blizzard and my tire went flat out in the middle of it. I would have been very unhappy had I not packed it.
next: How satisfying must it be to have something like that ready to go in case of emergency, and then to actually get to use it? I'm pretty jealous, and proud in a vicarious kind of way.