Conundrums

The Edsel of Things

When I was sailing, instead of raising the chute or flying the spinnaker, I said, raise the Edsel!

Raising a spinnaker sometimes called The Edsel

When I was sailing, instead of raising the chute or flying the spinnaker, I said, raise the Edsel!

Now, for sailors and non-sailors, when flying the Edsel, hundreds of things can go wrong and do.

It can be the rigging, the crew or the skipper(helmsperson) which usually was me, that most likely why 90% of the problems were mine.

Ask my crew or ex-crew; they adamantly say it was me!

Regardless, to this day, when things go wrong, or there are problems, it's an Edsel perception!

Now, for those who do not know what the Edsel was, look up the Ford Motor Company;. I am not criticizing Ford; we all make mistakes.

Somerset Maugham wrote: "It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."

It is very easy to predict your future, but be careful; you may not like what you envision.

There is a vast difference between hope and wishing. In business, 'hope is not a strategy' is often used to downplay optimism.

I am the type of personality with duplicates or more of most things: a second pair of glasses, car keys, house keys, cell phone, etc.

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