Insurance Policy
Once, when I was very young, I was watching my mother pack my little suitcase - we were going on holiday for a whole week. Now way back then, one week consisted of precisely seven days. So why, I asked her, was she packing 14 pairs of underwear?
She looked at me, in the infinite wisdom that mothers have, and said simply "For accidents".
It struck me recently that I have been packing 'for accidents' ever since, something I find quite amusing and not at all necessary.
It also struck me that I will still be packing 'for accidents' in sixty years' time, when I will find them necessary, and my predicament not at all funny.
