GSA,
Services here are NEVER going to be working 100%!
I recall growing up in the south of London during, was it the Harold Wilson or Ted Heath, the early 70's power outages due to the miner strikes, particularly of an evening the family would sit around a home made candle of margarine and string ... one couldn't buy candles at that time in the shops, the country, myself included, was on a three day working week, and it was during that era there was a baby boom because many decided that during the extended hours of darkness there was nought else to do but to have sex.
How times have changed, regretably it's happened o Xmas eve but as soon as there's a power outage these days they're calling for "heads will roll" because they haven't been able to take the flight that they might have paid nigh on bogger all for.
I'm no fan of Maggie Thatcher, indeed she put me out of (Laker Airways) work back in the 80's, but she obviously got something right because these younger generations actually expect electricity wherever they may go!
Last edited by Phileas Fogg; 25th Dec 2013 at 13:57.