"If you only had one meter?" Where and under what conditions?

Lab job, home, shed, under car, dead boat and radio in gale force wind waters,
suspect non labelled 3 phase mains switchboard,
PCB with bloated and 'normal appearance' monster caps,
rich no-life scum cheapass clients hassling you to find problems left by the last tech/s who 'worked cheap' etc
At this point it's 2 meters/meters/? (200cm/2000mm/78.74 inches) of decent quality or nothing for me
Why risk it on one meter that may fail, get dropped/driven over/drowned
or batteries go flat?
That said two AVO8-mk5 analogue needle pointers in a briefcase won't let you down
(especially if shipwrecked on Earth, or spacewrecked on Moon or Mars)
and don't need batteries,
passive features only,
and up to 3kv if you like living
terminally dangerously
Active features can be handled by digital Fluke beaters
with 'installed and removed on the day of use' batteries,
assuming there is squeeze room for them in the briefcase,
and no one at interstellar flight control checks the weight
