aemeijers wrote:

(And what with all the vampires these days, you never seem to have a
wood stake handy when you need one...)

This may save your life:

The business about wooden stakes is pure Hollywood bull****. If you read
Bram Stoker's book, "Dracula," you'll find that one uses a BOWIE KNIFE to
dispatch a vampire, not some ****ant tent-peg!

I live in Texas. We have a lot of Bowie knives and hardly any vampire
problem.