David Craig, on March 28th, 2025Friday blog
This blog is even more trivial than usual. So I’ll just leave it up for one day.
On Thursday I returned from a trip to a certain Asian country known for its fine weather, excellent food and its ‘vibrant’ nightlife’. While waiting for my flight on Wednesday evening in the Business Class lounge I saw a woman in her fifties come in with what I imagine was her daughter. The daughter was rather fat and generously adorned with large tattoos. Clearly the daughter had some real or imagined medical issue as she was brought into the lounge in a wheelchair pushed by a dimunitive local airport assistance worker weighing probably half what the daughter weighed.
Once the daughter was helped into a seat, I expected the mother to ask her what she wanted to eat and drink from the generous buffet. Much to my surprise, the ‘disabled’ daughter easily got up and went over to the buffet to collect a mountain of food and a few cans of Coca Cola. About half an hour later, the daughter made a new attack on the buffet.
Perhaps I had witnessed a miracle? Perhaps the sight of all that food had cured the daughter’s disability?
Actually, I have seen similar ‘take up thy bed and walk’ miracles occur when I worked at a certain well-know theme park. Some guests claiming disabilities would be given wheelchairs. Being in a wheelchair allowed them and their friends or family members to go to the front of the often long, slow-moving queues. But when it came to their turn to go on the ride, the wheelchair-bound park guest suddenly showed remarkable speed in getting out of their wheelchair and onto the ride. A miracle of healing, I imagine.
But I am being a bit modest. I have several times performed miracles of healing while travelling. For example, on Wednesday night while waiting at the boarding gate I noticed that a woman near me was coughing badly. I caught her attention and mentioned that I believed there was a medical centre in the airport and that she could get medical help there and in particular an assessment whether she was fit enough to fly that night. Lo and behold, the coughing immediately ceased. The woman was cured. It was a miracle of healing – not quite at the Jesus level – but a miracle nevertheless.
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I have to wonder if the young lady has the state benefit system enabling this. ie motorbility car for the family disabled badges, SEND teachers, and all the other stuff that modern benefit system awards.
LOL always found your blogs therapeutic but didn’t realise such divine powers were at work.
Charlie Munger “Show me the incentive, and I’ll show you the outcome”
Offering a no questions asked above average western income to anybody that wants it just encourages these outcomes. Look at what doge is revealing in the US and i wondered if it was just a coincidence that USAid cancelled and Just Stop Oil throw in the towel.
The telegraph had an article about some British town where high percent working age men are claiming benefits. They interviewed one man who was an unemployed plasterer. Having refurbished a few houses i didn’t think there was such a thing as unemployed plasterers but funny enough all mine wanted to be paid in cash. Probably claiming their vans on motability too.
Whilst on some level i admire the ingenuity and a stupid system deserves to be exploited. But the level of naivety in the PPE commie grads who cluelessly claim to be the government just makes me want to spend longer in that south east asian country which i also just came back from. Starve the beast of my tax revenue.
We should close down the government and then we would see miracles everywhere.
Exactly my thoughts Durham! No doubt benefits also paid for their business class flights too.
Oh mate, seen so many similar miracles.You even see it at work with folk ordering special office chairs and additions that they really don’t need just to cost the company.