Siege Perilous

I read a report about the dangers of the in-car screen-spray facility (their words not mine). A high number of sufferers from Legionnaires Disease were drivers who spent long hours in their cars and tended to spray their windscreens with naked water. The dreaded bacteria breeds in the nice warm environment causing all the horrible, hard-to-get-rid of symptoms of LD.

My son, once free as a bird to go ski-ing and windsurfing, now a twice-times dad with heavy responsibilities, spends the greater part of his days behind the wheel of a van driving between watersports centres in Cornwall, keeping the dishes spinning at each of them. I felt he should have this information, so sent him the newspaper report. His reply was: ‘Thanks mum. That it Explains It All. I’ve been feeling a bit c**p lately but a dose of screen cleaner in the mornings will soon fix that.’

I suppose he could gargle it.