none of my business

A man comes today with his little baby of 2 months. "Where's mum?" I ask.
"I rather think that is not your concern" he snaps back.
I come back with: "Actually, it is very much my concern, because a GP should interest himself in ALL aspects of the patient's physical and emotional well being. And when a mother doesn't accompany her baby, I am entitled to ask why not"
"She isn't well"
"Anything I can help with?"
"No"
Which answers my question. Because I happen to know she's a smack addict, as he is.
I leave it alone from then on, however. There's no point in pressing the issue; besides now we all know exactly what's going on.

The anticyclone over much of western Europe, which has brought uninterrupted blue skies, though allegedly dust laden, is still in place, and the ash cloud continues to circle it slowly, though this afternoon we have had the first indication that it may soon be designated "safe to fly", at least in northern Britain. But has it ever been unsafe? I'm not saying the mass-grounding has been an over reaction. I'm just saying that future analysis may well prove that in the event, it was.