The problem, funeral directors say, is a combination of distracted drivers and drivers who don't know or, in some cases, don't care about the rules of funeral procession etiquette.
Without further changes to the way it functions and is run, it may find itself beset by some of the same underlying problems that were pushing it to the margins before the crisis brought it back.
The miners, now consolidated into very large firms and run by bean counters rather than the boozy engineers of yore, know that this is no negotiating position at all.
Those private citizens who sent packages to our troops occupying Germany after World War II and marked them GIFT to escape duty payments did not bother to find out that "Gift" means poison in German.
A little round, stripy-blue fish slowly wiggled its way right in front of my face, with black wide-open eyes and naturally pursed mouth, as if he didn't notice there was a big monster watching him.