Insuring The Single Life

December 8, 2005 by NML

I was standing in Marks & Spencer yesterday waiting to pay for my groceries, okay, snacks and goodies, when I looked up and noticed that there was a plethora of insurances being offered: Travel, Home, Pet, Car and Wedding (’To Protect Your Perfect Day) and it has occurred to me that everything bar being protected from dodgy guys as a singleton can be insured. It’s obvious that insurance companies bank on people’s insecurities and the fact that it’s a cold, cruel, expensive world out there, but when is someone going to be offering insurance for single people? Throw in the fact that shop assistants constantly pester me to take out extended warranties and I’m wondering when the guys I date are going to start coming with warranties (excuse the pun!)

It’s no wonder people live in a state of perpetual insecurity and fear because everything costs and the big insurance guy has told us that if we don’t insure, something could and very possibly will go wrong. I wish someone would have offered me a warranty on some of the guys that I’ve dated and sent me a brand new and improved, shiny replacement, but I don’t have that option. I wish someone could offer me insurance when I make an ‘investment’ whether it’s emotional or financial, make plans, commitments, when I’m trying to get the ‘perfect relationship’ but I don’t have that option either. Often something does go wrong when we date, when we try for the ‘perfect relationship’, but we have to pick ourselves back up, lick our wounds and hope for better luck next time and there isn’t a price you can put on hope.

NML is the editor of Baggage Reclaim.