We all want to help our children, don’t we? Of course we do! Sometimes you go without simply to ensure that your children grow healthily. That doesn’t change as they get older and often the sacrifice is hard, especially so in these troubled times.
So when a grown up tells you something then you tend to take note. It is after all the natural order of things. When that grown up is a government minister then you do tend to take note. When that government minister tells you not to panic over fuel but it would be best to top your car up and whilst you are about it perhaps filling a couple of Jerry cans might be a good idea I guess that is what you do.
Have you ever watched petrol unexpectedly catch fire? It is shocking. The deafening bang, the stunning blast, the hammering heat and, if you are unlucky, the searing painful deep skin burn.
So when a government minister says fill Jerry cans you really do raise an eyebrow and ask the question, “You can’t be serious?” Then the ghastly news that a mother helping her daughter by decanting fuel from a Jerry can into a jug for her daughter's car then experiencing the petrol suddenly metamorphosing into a traumatising demonic fireball! She is now fighting for life in hospital.
After all is said and done we want what is best for our children and thought that was the message being delivered. We live in times of confusing rhetoric and most of the time that is simply tediously annoying. But occasionally that rhetoric can have catastrophic results.
All very sad don’t you think?
So when a grown up tells you something then you tend to take note. It is after all the natural order of things. When that grown up is a government minister then you do tend to take note. When that government minister tells you not to panic over fuel but it would be best to top your car up and whilst you are about it perhaps filling a couple of Jerry cans might be a good idea I guess that is what you do.
Have you ever watched petrol unexpectedly catch fire? It is shocking. The deafening bang, the stunning blast, the hammering heat and, if you are unlucky, the searing painful deep skin burn.
So when a government minister says fill Jerry cans you really do raise an eyebrow and ask the question, “You can’t be serious?” Then the ghastly news that a mother helping her daughter by decanting fuel from a Jerry can into a jug for her daughter's car then experiencing the petrol suddenly metamorphosing into a traumatising demonic fireball! She is now fighting for life in hospital.
After all is said and done we want what is best for our children and thought that was the message being delivered. We live in times of confusing rhetoric and most of the time that is simply tediously annoying. But occasionally that rhetoric can have catastrophic results.
All very sad don’t you think?
