Last time we checked, there was no burglar in the house, no quicksand in the yard, no drive-off-able cliff on the commute. But since we insist on clinging to fears even we know are irrational, we found out what to do…just in case.

Get yourself out of the stickiest situations!

• What would you do? Survival stories

From the April 2007 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

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