I'm confused about junction box rules

[ebee]

If anything one might expect people to be more concerned about risks to themselves than to others, but some of those who have exercised high-risk lifestyle choices ('ignoring' that high risk) can get very concerned about incredibly small risks due to things which are not a matter of personal choice!

Indeed I wholeheartedly concur (and yes I will confess that I do not view myself as totally innocent of that sometimes too)

 

[JohnW2]

Indeed I wholeheartedly concur (and yes I will confess that I do not view myself as totally innocent of that sometimes too)

Me, too. Irrational though it may be, for my sins I smoke (and always have done), but I still feel a little nervous whenever, say, I step onto a plane. Totally irrational - but, after all, "we are only human"

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Me, too. Irrational though it may be, for my sins I smoke (and always have done), but I still feel a little nervous whenever, say, I step onto a plane. Totally irrational - but, after all, "we are only human"

Difficult to understand, but I am the same - It's probably a lot to do with the sense of the risk being immediate, and completely beyond our personal control. As a driver, I also use buses - if the driver is 'pushing it a bit' I do tend to grip the seat, slightly concerned.

 

[JohnW2]

Difficult to understand, but I am the same - It's probably a lot to do with the sense of the risk being immediate, and completely beyond our personal control.

Yes, I think that's got a lot to do with it, and is just slightly 'rational'. For a smoker, particularly a fairly young one, the (high) risk of consequent death is a matter of the 'distant future' (and, anyway "it won't happen to me"!). When stepping onto a plane for a short-haul flight, the risk (albeit tiny) is that one could die within the next two or three hours - which probably 'focusses the mind' a lot more!

As a driver, I also use buses - if the driver is 'pushing it a bit' I do tend to grip the seat, slightly concerned.

I imagine that nearly all of us do that - and not just in buses. It's the same (at least, it is for me!) when sitting in the passenger seat of a car being driven by someone else!

 

[ebee]

Not to forget being in the driving seat with a plethora of idiots driving these days "it is more important to save a half a second per hour off driving time than it is to drive safely for everybody else including myself" sort of ideology!

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Not to forget being in the driving seat with a plethora of idiots driving these days "it is more important to save a half a second per hour off driving time than it is to drive safely for everybody else including myself" sort of ideology!

Very much so. I was towing this morning, and 34 feet long. Narrow road - I passed a car parked on my right, and there was a car ahead of me on my left side, around 40 feet between the two parked vehicles. One car came the opposite way, couldn't progress beyond the parked car, closely followed by three more - None of them bright enough to realise, they would be causing a complete log jam. I ended up having to get out of the car, and explain to the latter two car's drivers, that the only way out really was for them to reverse far enough, for me to get past the car parked on my left.