Simon is home from his travels, having luckily avoided any disruptions to flights caused by volcano ash and thunder storms. Upon his safe return he commented that the car had “been fine”. He added that he had been going to say so when it had completed its first part of the journey, and delivered him safely to his parents’ house in Dover, but he “didn’t like to tempt fate.”
Now Simon is, by anybody’s standards, a Very Rational Being. His dogged preference for logic and the scientific method have at times been known – how shall I put this – to piss me off. So it always surprises me when he behaves in any way that smacks, however remotely, of superstition. Of course, in his defence, his fear that the journey may not have turned out to be trouble-free did have some grounding in recent experience.
