15 Seconds

What could you do with fifteen seconds. If the day was longer than twenty-four hours; let's say twenty-four hours and fifteen seconds, what would you do with that little bit extra. Would you sleep an extra fifteen seconds a night? Share an intimate moment with your loved-one? Pour yourself a pint or open a bottle of wine? Make your bed every day? Floss your teeth? Chances are, you wouldn't notice a difference, but for the inhabitants of Sderot, a town outside the Gaza strip, they have just fifteen seconds to react to missile attacks from inside the strip. Without wishing to draw sympathy to the people of Sderot, just a simple thought experiment: could you react, from where you're sat now, to a place of safety. Looking about me now, I know I wouldn't manage it - I would be a slave to the whims of chance. Its a scary thought, but at least it's only that, a thought, as opposed to a reality.