People ask me “Why we have to have Health and Safety?”
Simple – because of the idiots out there.
This morning I caught a train from Whitstable to London. I was early for the train, so being the restless person I am I wandered up and down the station platform.
At one end there is a vending machine and as I glanced at it I realised that some idiot had thrown something like a brick or lump of concrete at the glass display window and shattered it, which almost completely obscured the view of the displayed products.
After I stopped, took photos and started my mental train of thought, I wandered back down the platform. The idiots had been at work/play there as well, there were two recently repaired windows in one of the station buildings.
Now I am no fan of Southeastern Railways and their heavy handed attitude to customer management but with idiots smashing things up on a regular basis it is little wonder that organisations like them take a protective or defensive approach.
I went back to the vending machine, looked again and realised that what I thought was a laminated glass panel, was in fact a tempered glass panel with a sheet of Perspex in front of it.
Why?
Well, for two reasons.
One – the most obvious when you think about it, is to stop people breaking the glass and stealing the stock.
The other thing it is there for is to stop those idiots from hurting themselves or anyone else.
It makes you think.
One idiot in any walk of life even one with good intentions can ruin things for a lot of people.
At least I thought that.
