my experience in the social welfare sector in which i work is that you know you've been in it too long when you read a blog entry like this and immediatly think...'ah, tha's for all you know, how do you know that little old lady isn't herslef a benefit cheat/ didn't abuse her children/ doesn't have a background with the Nazis/ security forces/ ethnic tribal terrorists/ isn't a drugs runner/ brothel keeper...just because she seemed to you like a lovely little elderly lady....