Hmmmph.

[bazilnut]

Do you ever think that we might be becoming too safety conscious? Life involves a certain amount of risk and to spend all your time trying to eradicate it seems like a bad way to use time and energy spent more productively. Minimize, sure but I don't know about eradicate. Management has declared that, because the pool is relatively isolated, there will be no solo swimmers. They say that if something happened no one would know until I or one of my esteemed co-workers were to wander by. They assure us that it would be very unpleasant to discover someone who had bled to death due to slipping and hitting their head. Sure, that would be unpleasant for me as well as the formerly living person...but it would have been an accident. They happen! I close the pool up by myself and have to walk around to make sure all the doors are closed, I could slip too! We should just shut it down obviously. This all stems from my acute sense of how ridiculous I sounded when I informed a fully grown (not to mention v. tall and somewhat imposing) man that he could not go swimming unless he found himself a 'swim buddy'. I'm sure my instinctive wince as I said it didn't help convince him that this is logical.

It's all the lawyers fault I tell you!

It's all gone to hell in a handbasket since the Nac Mac Feegles got themselves their own toad lawyer.

I'm offsky