Is it just me/my age/cynicism or has the focus on the £/stress/pressure on everyone really stepped up in every way?
Random examples – no doubt others can do better! Stuff like:
1 .Tour winners relying on their team to keep the pressure up on every stage (remember Lemond winning with really weak teams in the 80s?)
2. At my “local” train station (Edinburgh, Scotland’s capital city), where I have to go to book bikes on trains, the reservations counter is now open only to 6:30 (was 8:30), as it’s not revenue producing, so I more or less have to go into town on a day off (even last year I could go in after work, tho I’d wait 30m). This is the UK’s 2nd tourist destination. mobbed with tourists during the summer.
3. Seemingly everything bought (by those of us with moderate incomes) on price and price alone.
It’s easy to get sucked in when times are tight, I know I do, but it just seems to reduce EVERYTHING to money and pressure. Am I alone in thinking this way? Not sure why I am posting, the severity of all of this just occurred to me recently I suppose.