Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.

Starting an article with a quote fro another writer is probably bad form, but I'm going to do it anyway. Douglas Adams, author of, amongst other things, Life the Universe and Everything, was in the midst of writing another book, when his was hit by the most life threatening condition that many of us know as death. Fortunately, Adams was a great fan of technologyy and left behind on his Apple Mac a whole wealth of ideas, letters, partly finished articles, and the various muses of his book, later edited, mashed about and embelished with a foreword by Stephen Fry.
In amongst this is the quote with which I intended to start this drivel, but which now finds itself well into the second paragraph, thus excusing me from any potential breach of writers etiquette. And it goes like this. "Time Travel? I believe there are people regularly travelling back from the future and interfering with our lives on a daily basis. The evidence is all around us. I'm talking about how every time we make an insurance claim we discover that somehow mysteriously the exact thing we're claiming for is now precisely excluded from our policy."
Now, although I have never made an insurance claim I can empathise with what Douglas was thinking. My entire life has been blighted by the same sort of conspiracy.
You want proof? Okay, anyone who was born in 1968 will support me in this, particularly if they we brought up in say, a North East Coastal Town, with a largely Larbour local authority.
My sister who is around 18 months older than me, benefited from free milk in school. She has few fillings and strong healthy bones. I managed to get around 3 pints of free milk before ti was withdrawn. Consequently I have more metal in my mouth than the average Japanese Hatchback, and have broken many bones, although fortunately none mine.
Moving on, my sister further benefited from free swimming lessons at school, whilst they were withdrawn after my first three lessons. Coming from a low earning working class background (that is to say, my Dad worked rather than claimed benefits) I was therefore destined to drown with my peers, and very nearly did.
This concerted effort to thwart my development continued throughout my life. I managed to take some "O" levels, but also had to take GCSE's, being right on the very point where the exam system changed, so that prospective employees don't know whether I am Dick or Richard.
Joining the Police service I was just to late to qualify for the lucrative "Rent Allowance" which was subject of an annual compensatory grant, and instead got the inferior "Housing Allowance" which has not risen in 21 years. Even when buying my house I just missed out on MIRAS, which eased the burden of the mortgage payer. And of course I got married just in time for married mans tax allowance to be abolished.
I therefore fully agree with Douglas Adams that time travel is not only possible, but being used as a weapon against us.
Either that, or I am extremely unlucky. Which explains why despite regularly buying a lottery ticket I have only ever won a tenner, twice, whilst my sister has small wins with such frequeNC as to be frankly suspicious. Of course, if ever I were to win the big one, the Government would doubtless announce an immediate special tax on lottery winners. At 100%.