Always carry duct tape

So my bro-in-law Clint calls me up and his car has overheated on his way home from work. This left him stranded on the 405 north of me a bit, and about 50 miles away from home for him.

I make a run to the auto parts store to buy a funnel and coolant. Well, coolant is about $15 for a bottle. Forget that! I go to CVS and buy two packets of distilled bottled water for a total of $10. So I end up with about 3x to 4x the fluid for 2/3 the price!

I get up to Clint and we start putting water in the car. We keep on putting more water in.... hmm.... this is weird. Start looking around and the upper radiator hose is leaking. It has a tear about 1" long in it. Out comes the duct tape I leave in my car! We wrap the hose up the best we could. It was good enough for Clint to make the 50 mile drive home.