I find it amusing when someone criticizes others for carrying spare parts or being "over-prepared" on long tours.
Frequently, they are the ones that only put on a few hundred miles a year, then join a long tour unprepared.
Then comes the inevitable breakdown, slowing the whole tour down, while they are begging for help, or spare dissy, carb, or tappet wrenches to adjust their "adjustable" valves.
Of course, they don't know how to use the tools or install the part, so someone else will have to stay behind to get them running while the tour proceeds.
If all else fails, they will holler at the nearby NAPA store clerk, "What do mean you don't have parts in stock for an 80 year old car???"
Hopefully, they can borrow someone's one's cell phone (no coverage, left behind, or dead battery), call AAA/CAA, before realizing that they forgot to renew their membership.
Well, there's always the credit card to get towed home. Oops, that's expired, too?
And you left cash at home with your spare parts? Ouch!
Sounds like the start of a real bad day!
Know anyone like this?