Hello Tom, Two thoughts here...... 1) You mention that fixing her bed is not your job - but in fixing the rails back to her bed (why were they left off in the first place?! To me that's like changing the seat in someone's wheelchair but forgetting to put the wheels back on!), surely you have at least potentially avoided a situation where she might have fallen out of it, or fallen down attempting to get out of it - those rails presumably have a clear purpose.... So wouldn't this come under the category of "preventative care"? *grin* I really do like the way though that you go to lengths to point out that people who genuinely need the attention are often the ones who are most worried about having wasted your time, whereas the other lot, well, nuff said...... 2) About the power/control thing, and the US annexing space (presumably so they can construct huge billboards telling us to Buy Coke) - I found a quotation that made me think a lot. "Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." Who said that? Benjamin Franklin. Frightening isn't it? It proves that the one thing Americans do not learn from History is that they do not learn from history (in this instance, what one of their own greatest statesmen has said and believed).