"If young Sam had said to himself, "I think I'll take my shakey egg down to the folk club rather than drink beer and do meth," he would have been a lot better off. If Daniel had decided to take up the bodhran rather than seduce his dead father's former partner, he would be better off."

They might have been better off, but what about the other poor sods down the session when the new percussioneers turn up?