The only difference customers will notice is that they will go in with their card rather than their order book—and it will be a darn sight safer as a result.
They might be inconvenient to householders, who may not be allowed to flush their toilets during a period of flooding, but that is a darn sight better than the alternative.
My point is simpler than that: they are taking money to which they are not entitled, and they will make darn sure that they do not pay for any deficits.
I was brought up in such a background and as a boy saw conditions which were a darn sight worse than whatever applies today.
Behind the darn which requires to be raised and raised and raised, a heavy, overwhelming, overpowering great flood of water is rising.
Last year, it was darn cold in this country, cold almost everywhere, to the point that even in this place it was freezing cold.
We prefer a concrete buttress dam rather than a rock-filled darn, because a concrete dam would be more pleasing aesthetically and would be safer.
They will certainly be a darn sight more careful about public finances.
