I've just been to an Extraordinary General Meeting of the management company for the development which I live in. It had been called in order to explain why we had recently changed managing agents from CPM (who had been utterly rubbish, I pity you if you have them as your agents) to a local company. The main reason for changing was because we wanted an agent who would actually bother to do things. Like collect money (off people who wanted to pay money as well as those who were indifferent either way), cut the grass or fix the light that loudly buzzed for weeks outside my front door.
Anyway, we have changed agents and all is now fine and dandy.
The meeting was held in a little church hall just up the road. Clearly the church hall was mainly used for things like toddler groups but it served well enough for an EGM. Technically since there were only seven of us in attendance we could have done it in my front room and all had a cup of tea too but I suppose you have to allow for the possibility that more people might take an interest in affairs. And I'm out of milk at the moment in any case.
On the wall of the church hall were some instructions for what to do in case of an emergency (eg a fire). They were handwritten, possibly in felt tip or crayon, and read something like the following:
"In case of emergency: one mum to go and phone the emergency services. Two mums to take the children safely out to the front of the building. One mum to check toilets and the upstairs rooms are clear." etc.
It wasn't clear what to do in the event that there were not sufficient mums there to carry out these tasks. Would fathers have been sufficient? What if the people using the room were childless, either voluntarily, from natural causes or from compulsory sterilisation? Tonight for example, I'm fairly sure that we were short of the number of mums that would have been needed to carry out a full evacuation. Luckily we didn't have to but I'm sure that we must have invalidated the church hall's insurance for the evening. Sorry vicar.
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