Priceless

I had quite an entertaining if not somewhat disheartening day yesterday. Two separate incidents occurred which made me fear for our future generations.

Firstly, I had a phone call from an extremely worried mother who was 16 weeks pregnant. She had been making Yorkshire puddings and while beating the mixture some had inadvertently splashed into her eye. She wanted to know if the raw eggs would affect the baby. Is it just me?

Later on, as I was waiting to hand over to the postnatal ward a new dad came to the desk asking for a bottle for the baby. When I asked which kind of teat he wanted for said bottle he replied "the breastfeeding ones".

I despair! I realise that through natural selection not all of us were born to be rocket scientists, but come on! Has common sense gone completely out of the window? What of the unborn offspring of these people?

It is a sad fact that more intelligent people, for a variety of reasons, are less fertile. There is the joke about a man of average intelligence, who decides to be cryogenically frozen. He wakes 500 years in the future to find that he is the most intelligent person on the planet. It is really happening.

For now when I hear little gems such as these I shall smile sweetly and share them with my colleagues. It keeps us all sane. We are in it together! God help us.