I was watching a little telly this weekend and caught a little bit of a National Geographic special on the man-eating tigers of the Indian jungle. The narrator expressed amazement that the villagers could accept the bounty of the jungle in exchange for the constant threat of being eaten by a tiger.

Which made me think about a conversation I'd overheard as I was getting my hair cut, earlier in the day. A woman was recounting the story of how a woman who works at Chryslers was killed in a car accident as she was driving home from work. The emphasis in her story was that her son, who also works at Chryslers, also had lost his father in the same month.

If I did a National Geographic special about Windsor, I would make two points. First, in Windsor any reference to the car factories is pluralized as in "Her son got a job at Fords". Second, I would express amazement that the villagers could accept the bounty of the automobile in exchange for the constant threat of being killed in a car accident.