The people who refuse to give way to emergency vehicles - or worse, deliberately obstruct them - would undoubtedly be the first to complain when the emergency vehicle they later come to rely on doesn't arrive speedily enough. Some years ago at the annual tenant shareholders meeting for our estate, there was an proposal on the agenda to install security gates at the approaches to prevent unauthorised parking. Thankfully it failed to go through, partially for staffing reasons but also because as I pointed out, the first time an ambulance was unable to get through for my Sam (whose condition necessitated the service fairly frequently) I would rip out the barrier and insert it into the person who thought it was a good idea.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
