You’ve been in meetings like that, right? Planning new projects, or parties, or programs… and the plans overshoot what you need, then overshoot what you were hoping for, then they overshoot what lies within the powers of mortal mankind.
Then you gotta dial it back to “Well, we’ve got enough budget to get four dozen balloons and a chicken nuglet platter from Chick-Fil-A instead.”
“rein”. Just for the record.
“reign” actually works perfectly there! Kingdoms are expanding…..
Ah, nuts. You’re exactly right. Man, my brain needed more caffeine yesterday. I hate it when I do that.
Ms. Wiggins-Ross might sign off on Paste’s bikes and custom trailer. As for Lowell’s desire to buy up Outdoor Galore at $3 mil plus – maybe not so much.
so basically their, so called, “plan” was to use the under the belt tactic of their actual bosses. promote Paste the most they can. then RUIN someone else’s life to do their EVEN MORE down the belt plan?
GEEZ WHY CAN’T THEY JUST DO THEIR OWN SHOP AT LEAST? TOO EASY AND NOT ENOUGH LIFES RUINED?
oy…people…
Because it takes too long & exposes them too much to discovery
Nope. Anybody I hung with was too broke for all that nonsense.
We’d ask around the neighborhood/friends/etc to see who could bring what, chip in together for a keg or two and plan a potluck from the get-go. If somebody wanted something “more”, they were expected to contribute it themselves.
Ya know, sensible stuff like that.
We wanted to have fun, and doing back flips for a ton of useless stuff nobody actually cared about didn’t seem to fit that game plan. [chuckles]
Like I said, sensible.
Catching up in retrograde.
You just paralleled a new politician with great ideas, plans, and rhetoric, meeting the old hidebound wall, of the incumbents, and learning messily how things really happen. In ten years they will be part of that hidebound crowd…