This ugly reality hit home for me recently, when I had to talk an immediate relative through a situation in which he was suckered into a leveraged Oppenheimer bond fund that contained derivatives and lost money.
It would have been good to share my views with other fathers and I would have felt more able to talk about the things that worry me like the health of the baby and how I support my partner through the pain of labour.
So before I fast forward and talk about driving the forthcoming Smart Fortwo Electric Drive car through the cobble-stoned streets of Brooklyn, let me remind readers that the Smart car concept was quite literally ahead of its time.