The Americans would happily reach one accord on standards for medical devices and then hammer out different pacts covering, say, electronic goods and drug manufacturing.
"Bedpans are certainly one of the things I would happily reach for if a patient needed one," said Dr. William Southern, chief of hospital medicine at Montefiore.
And certainly, when the mercury's rising, I'll happily reach for an icy glass of white or rosé, or even a fruity tumbler of Pimm's (must have loads of mint in it, though – a justly recurring theme in so many of my favourite summer drinks).
But as Juha Valtamo, a 21-year-old Finnish student, correctly types the next word that appears on the screen of his laptop, another mole happily reaches the destination.
Happily, corporations reach out to him as a trend spotter and early adopter.
Happily, he reaches an upbeat, empowering conclusion: "Whether you prevail or fail, endure or die, depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you".
Happily they reach a truce, which saves The Great Indoors from being the shortest-run show ever.
But what always has me reaching happily for the whisky bottle is the dialogue.
"When I'm typing," she says happily, "I can reach all the keys without moving my hand".
We must recognize that there is a bottom line if we are to have real freedom of thought and action at the present time — even if, happily, we never reach that bottom line.
