You cant help but feel we're slowly having the life squeezed out of us. Everything is regulated and policed, costs need covering. The local bonfire went the same way years ago for similar but smaller scale reasons.
Then there's Joe Public. That's every one of us, fueled by the prospect of monetary gain, wringing the financial hell out of every bump scrape or waferless Kit-Kat (see todays papers)
Am I getting old?