You forgot the fuel crisis. You know, the one that's just starting to happen in Scotland and the north of England just now as the Grangemouth refinery is being shut down because there's a strike happening this weekend.
You don't have a car any more so it won't be much of a deal for you. I barely noticed the last one, apart from having to cycle around the cars queueing up to buy petrol.
Of course, if it goes on so long that food can no longer be delivered to the shops, that would be a more serious matter.
The last one was the week before Kathy was born, and the midwives were sleeping on each others' sofas because they couldn't get home. Which is Not What You Want. And Asda brought in anti-hoarding rules saying you were only allowed to buy two loaves of bread, which is Not What You Want either when you're buying against the possibility of an emergency Caesarian and six weeks of not being able to drive. (Not that that happened.)
Driving was wonderful, though, when everyone else wasn't 8-)
It's a single refinery, arguably localised strike (last seen heading for ACAS), just happens to have national impact. The degree of expected crisis depends on how much scaremongering one reads and believes; certainly, there was no sign whatsoever of any trouble at the pumps as I went by.
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Of course, if it goes on so long that food can no longer be delivered to the shops, that would be a more serious matter.
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Driving was wonderful, though, when everyone else wasn't 8-)
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