And maybe, just maybe, you counted on decent food.
One thing you can count on in a Silk grid is a decent amount of fresh entries and very little, if any, junk.
Used to be, she will say, that you could count on a decent education in the neighborhood.
In the X-Factor economies of Britain and America, you may no longer be able to count on a decent job, affordable home or moderate pension, but still you are offered visions of outlandish success – whether in singing (for the glamorous) or business (for the rest of us).
And it will also lead to something that governments of all stripes have tried to avoid for decades: a postcode lottery, in which where you live determines how frequently your bins are collected, whether your streets and parks are kept clean, whether street lights go on after dark – even whether your mum or sister can count on a decent level of care.
He and his speechwriters might have been counting on observers being grateful that he had brushed against the bottom rung of decent gestures, with the vague sense that something Presidential had been said.
"Fiedler comes across as a decent, bright and perceptive observer who admires the Met and is not entirely comfortable relating all the gossip she knows her readers are counting on," Anthony Tommasini wrote in The New York Times in 2001.
Whenever I take a picture of a couple of middle-aged women who look like they're from out of town or somewhere, I can generally count on a nice tip if the shot turns out halfway decent.
They count on clean water, electricity, safe food, decent roads and bridges, and people who clean offices, bathrooms and hallways.
