My life was saved twice, 8 years apart by a simple pale blue cotton bath towel.
2001: used it to defend myself when attacked by 3 knife yielding dope-dealers in the showers of my army unit.
2009: it caught in the 🏨 balcony railings after I slipped and went over. 90m cliff below.

— koumdros (@koumdros) June 25, 2018

This reminds me of a certain work of literature.

Douglas Adams was right.