MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY

For most people, their first experience with controlling a motorised vehicle is the bumper car. Up to then it's all scooters and push bikes, but as soon as you get an engine behind you, you're instructed to aim your car full throttle at the other vehicles around you. Welcome to the dizzying scientific world of nature versus nurture, my friends.

Here we all are, being programmed from a very young age to drive like maniacs, knock everyone else out of the way and keep moving until we run out of fuel. You have to wonder if this doesn't help explain why there are so many car crashes on our roads.

I'm not sure of my facts here, but I wouldn't be surprised if the insurance companies have major shares in the funfairs.