My friend H was back in town tonight. Between the two of us, we've been gone for most of the last couple months on one trip or the other. So tonight we went out to the local watering hole and told lies and discussed deep philosophical (or at least developmental) issues. We had a tri-continental/varied view/diverse background/whole UN sort of thing going on discussing crime in SA, the function of the AU/the validity of aid to the Middle East/etc. over some cold Castles.
And then...
The guys at the other table wanted to join us. So we're a pretty egalitarian bunch. Fresh ideas/fresh blood is always good, right? Well this took the whole thing down to an American-football-isn't-really-football sort of level. Within 25 minutes everybody packed up and headed home. Now this is probably a good thing for my jet lagged sleep patterns but I swear we were about to solve poverty as reality in the free market world just before those schlubs sat down. Maybe if I have one more Castle before bed I'll remember how it works.
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- PettyBureaucrat
- I'm a manager. I manage HR, IT, Procurement, Communications and a large selection of gins.
3 comments:
Those conversations are awesome, and I miss them dearly. Miss you dearly, too.
Nice use of the word "schlubs".
Although, don't you frequently use the adjective "crackpot" to describe some of your ideas?
Yes, I often swap between calling my ideas "crackpot" and "crackpipe". I feel we should embrace the fact that we're not geniuses every single moment of the day.
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