Deus Machina
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You can't cut a cake or start a fire with a smart phone (two of the things mentioned in the OP).
Actually, you can start a fire with a smartphone. If you can get the battery out, it and a couple little bits of wire make as good a firestarter as most of the ones you scrape with a knife.
And, to be fair, some cars hide their spare stuff so well a mechanic can't find it, especially with the way a lot of people toss the manuals somewhere you never find them. I hate it.
As for the rest, yeah. There's not a week goes by without a conversation as such:
"You don't have a smart phone? How do you do anything?"
"Like a grown man."
And then I have to use my knife for something for them, ask them how they function without one, and there's not a thing they can say that doesn't make them sound like helpless children.