Put it in perspective

We all like to moan and complain about things. There are so many injustices in this world, and we mistakenly believe that complaining will help. Sometimes, something happens to bring some sort of perspective to this.
A 12 year old boy has collapsed and died at our local school. Our thoughts go out to the parents and friends and relatives of this young lad. You cant imagine what they must be going through. Having lost my wife at an early age, I can relate to losing someone, but losing a child must be almost impossible to bear.
I hope more resources will be devoted to finding effective treatments and cures for life limiting illnesses, rather than weapons to kill and maim people.
That's all. R.I.P.

Rear Wheel Steering

I was driving behind a truck this morning that had a sign on the back - "Danger Rear Wheel Steer" - Eh? So what? Should I be scared of this fact? Is it suddenly going to go backwards?
Should we have some more signs on our cars? "Danger - Radio on loud", "Warning - lost geezer in Charge"

Pensions

Is it worth doing a pension? This is a great big con.
Because I have had several jobs, I have a few small pensions floating about. I got a statement the other day. The pension pot is now £1000 less than it was 1 year ago, and buys me a pension 0f £300 per year. Was it worth saving? Where's that £1000 gone? Why cant I invest this money myself? I wouldn't have lost that much.
Why dont we just scrap private pensions, and pay extra tax to the government and get them to pay us when we retire? Hey hang on, that's how it used to be eh?