The Times magazine on the Saturday before Christmas carried this picture of a pensive President Obama in the Green Room at the White House.
If you look carefully at the floor you will see something to make you ring the alarm bell – send for Elf’n’Safety – a lead to the table lamp running across the floor, right by the side of the table & chair. If he were sitting down & got up too quickly he could be in for a nasty fall.
A friend of mine learned this the hard way with a complicated fracture of the wrist when she tripped over a lead in her office in the days when we were all just beginning to get multiple items of electrical equipment on our desks before the wiring & plugs had been upgraded to cope.
You would think that the world’s most advanced nation could have managed an upgrade by now.
