Mundane vs Insane

We are all still returning to our daily grind post festive season. Oh does it really takes this long to reach the post Christmas pay day?

All I know is with it brings the dread car mot, a form of car inspection for road worthiness. In my case my poor little car has been in hibernation since October due to the multiple breaks and subsequent cast on my leg since October. Fortunately my cast is now legal to drive an automatic car so it will be me taking it for its health check.  Having checked it over I have already concluded a new battery is necessary due to its inactivity, in fact it's going to need a serious jump to get it there, and like it's owner it's leg (wheel) looks like it had a close encounter with a kerb thanks to my husband so I expect that will be another cost. All in all not cheap but like it's owner it's a necessary maintenance to keep it ticking along.

It's one of those mundane jobs every driver faces. Like every adult dreads the tax season, the annual flu jab, the increase in bills and so on. We live with these day to day and we accept them with out question, even if we whine about it. As a rule in the same pattern most of us just allow professionals to act in our best interests without to too many questions. Well most of us do, I have to admit since being chronically I'll to the point work is but a dream, I do check on things more than I'd  used to. I now have the time to actually wait at the car service center, and oddly my bills have dropped as unnecessary work isn't even mentioned now. I spent 2 hours on the Internet yesterday only to find out that my mother should have been told to apply for a shortened TV licence as it becomes free on her 75th and now have that corrected. Even going as far as my broken leg I have researched the pros and cons of surgery and questioned by surgeons keeness to operate only to find he has never read my rather extensive medical history, and he agreed then it may make things worse.

In fact what I have found is just because some one has a specialist subject and as a whole knows probably more than most in that field. It doesn't mean they are making the right decision for you. They Base their decisions on general  probabilities and often not on individual cases. For that you have to stand up and make you voice heard by asking questions. An hour spent double checking facts can save you money, time or even more like your health. Sure it becomes a mundane to do this but as day to day society is becoming more insane with its power in the minority, best look out for you.