Time for my 'senior moment' rant !
Are we now incapable of assuming responsibility for our actions and their consequences ? Has everything become --"someone else's fault and they must PAY for it " ???
Let me take the recent snowfall/ice as an example. I keep reading about some Joe Bloggs or other who slipped and is going to sue his local council. Wife tells me of an actual ongoing court case where a council gritted a path, man walks down and falls over, man is actually (yes , really ) sueing the council because he says 'I wasn't as careful in walking because the path had been gritted ! ?????" Council Solicitor says they would have a 'stronger' case if the path had NOT been gritted ! I ask you... what are we coming to ?
We have become 'compensation' obsessed to such a point that the genuine failure of responsibility, real incompetence etc just becomes buried in the trivia !
And don't even mention conkers !
AAAGGGHHHH !
Brian
Are we now incapable of assuming responsibility for our actions and their consequences ? Has everything become --"someone else's fault and they must PAY for it " ???
Let me take the recent snowfall/ice as an example. I keep reading about some Joe Bloggs or other who slipped and is going to sue his local council. Wife tells me of an actual ongoing court case where a council gritted a path, man walks down and falls over, man is actually (yes , really ) sueing the council because he says 'I wasn't as careful in walking because the path had been gritted ! ?????" Council Solicitor says they would have a 'stronger' case if the path had NOT been gritted ! I ask you... what are we coming to ?
We have become 'compensation' obsessed to such a point that the genuine failure of responsibility, real incompetence etc just becomes buried in the trivia !
And don't even mention conkers !
AAAGGGHHHH !
Brian