'So children, who can tell me what an accident is?'
lots of little hands went up and Wendy was chosen
'Its like if a plane full of people crashed and everyone died, thats an accident cos the pilot didnt mean to crash'
'No no thats a tragedy.. anyone else.. you young man..'
'Errm.. if our schoolbus crashed and all us kids died'
'No no, thats a great loss... go on, young laddie at the back..'
there ensued a short pause while the lad reassessed his thinking..
'Its like if you were driving here and skidded on ice, crashed into a tree and died'
'Ermm, how did you get to that? youre right of course'
'Well, it's no tragedy and it's no great loss'
