Today I feel like effing and blinding. Only the presence of my son, who is looking suspiciously at mummy, stops me from cursing. I feel that a lot of people in which we place our trust try to pull a fast one. Cynically, they use our lack of awareness to their advantage, and we bear the costs. I am talking about people who should represent our interests such as doctors, lawyers and co-workers. They do everything to get us to trust them with our affairs and then use “small print conditions”, hoping that we won’t cotton on. It soon turns out that our costs are only a waste or we have to pay for the nth time. If I knew everything, I wouldn’t look for experts. But that is virtually impossible. The fact that these people and companies have lost my trust means I always have to check whether somebody is cheating me. It’s a good thing if the consequences are only financial. This situation casts a shadow on future cooperation. We don’t always terminate an agreement, but undermined trust is difficult to rebuild.