Savvy Business

Have you ever left an "In n Out Burger" in a bad mood? It is impossible. When you pull up to the drive through it is like you have been transported back in time to the hey day of the '50's and you expect to see June Cleaver pouring lemonade! I have been in the foulest of moods (I know it is hard to imagine) before visiting the In N Out and I immediately turn my frown upside down when the chipper boy (probably named "Chip") inquires in an intelligible manner if I would like the protein style (burger,people,burger!). The CEO of this franchise must be almost as genius as the gene testing gurus for essentially ripping off Disney's masterpiece of a business model. Here is an amazing concept: Hire fresh faced kids that speak English fluently,put them in the smart,starched collars,comb their hair,slap a cute cap on their head,and a smile on their face! Of course politeness always sends you into a blissful reverie of years gone by: "Please pull forward, How are you?,Thank you,have a nice day" (the whole "mam" part I do without, but other than that, politeness will get you far)! We could all use a little inspiration from the self-perpetuating genius that is Disney:

“Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things… and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” - Walt Disney

Shake a tail feather kids!

I was watching an MTV video, which oft' happens when teenagers inhabit your abode (actually it was my idea). We came across this video called "Misery Business" by Paramore. My daughter looked at me and said she looks like you mom with the long curly hair and attitude--were you like that in high school?! After LMFAO, I assured her that while I had a spell of being a "bully" in 6th grade and I did lavish on the makeup in the past (eye liner fills in too many creases after age 30!) I was actually not part of the popular/whorie (its a word right?) crowd! I do like the title of the song though--business can be some fierce misery!



I was more like the culmination of all the characters in the Breakfast Club:

Virginal with big hair like "Clare" (my hair AND eyeliner looked exactly like that my freshman year!). Irrelevant fact: she posed nude: http://www.thephatphree.com/_photos/napalm101/30Malicious.jpg





Good grades like "Brian"--Honors classes,Academic olympics (I even had a letter on my jacket for academics) Honors Society,Honors orchestra,honors etc.etc.!TOTAL NERD! No wonder I never got any action (well actually it may not have been so much the nerd thing as the whole related to a cop with a gun cabinet at the front door thing)!

Introverted artistic girl? That's me (seriously--I'm really artistic)!

I fancied myself a jock. I played some mean tennis and even beat some of the uppity private school beotches!, but I mostly just kept the bench warm and kept track of stats for the softball team (I still lettered in Varsity softball though-I think they felt sorry for a senior bench warmer)!

Who didn't have verbally abusive parents?

Kamishibai

A long time ago, society and parents guided their children with rules and consequences. Their hope was that even though they may not be the most popular parents in the world, maybe their offspring would still be productive members of society. Parents would admonish their young apprentices when errors in judgement were made and even people in public wouldn't hesitate to stop inappropriate behavior of adolescents. Society as a whole did not want anarchy and lawlessness dominating life and preventing communities from functioning safely and productively!

But, let us examine society in the year 2007 and a middle class family with a pre-pubescent boy. The boy, like most young people, felt the need to challenge society and boundaries on occasion. He would do things like draw pornography on school work and turn it in to the teacher or pilfer the occasional candy bar. Once he had been caught spray painting nonsense on the local sidewalk. The mother and father felt that treating this child as an adult was the best policy for discipline and they discussed his errors in judgement at length. They wanted to empathize with him and be his best friends and confidants. Why use discipline when he obviously is acquiring the body of a young man, he must have an adult mind already that can be reasoned with?? Drugs like Ritalin will help his behavior and jumpstart his drug habit right?"We are your peers young man" they would consistently demonstrate to him. "We can't control what you do and chose not to participate in guiding you down the right path of behavior. "We will give you free reign to roam the streets and learn about what life has to offer through your own means"!

"Good luck son"

One night, the parents went out on the town. They had very important business to attend to and did not feel the need to make sure that their headstrong son was involved in some community hobbies like sports,school work,religion,pets (have you noticed that kids prefer cold electronic comfort to the friendly furry type?),reading,mentoring etc...... Well, the young man was so grateful for this lapse in judgement that he gathered a bunch of his friends together with air guns and promptly, yet stealthily went on a rampage throughout the local community. They gleefully blew out the windows of several businesses and were even generous enough to pick some panes larger than others. In one night, they cost local business owners $1000's of dollars,copious amounts of valuable time, and grief (that the businesses probably would have preferred to spend on their own adolescent children)! A misguided young man is loose on the streets and the community is SHATTERED!!

RU trying to get into MY genes?

Aside--I can never have a personalized licensed plate because I'm too wordy and not pretentious enough.

While I was flitting around in my "Errand Girl" costume (that's right I chose to reveal my secret identity to you---shhhh), I landed on a little mag called "Business 2.0" and my attention was drawn to a new breakthrough in biotechnology--the nanosphere (no not your boyfriend's penis) http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/06/01/100050970/index.htm

Now, I would still prefer a gold band ring as a gift (white gold is all the rage currently I guess) with little celtic designs and a penchant for enchantment. But, I have to admit that it is very impressive that they are now using small amounts of gold to diagnose disease in a fraction of the time that it used to take (less time is better for science,but not sex aye?) and at a fraction of the cost!