{"id":725,"date":"2010-06-24T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T11:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/24\/the-plan\/"},"modified":"2010-06-24T11:56:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T11:56:00","slug":"the-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/24\/the-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"the plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got a personality quirk &#8211; well, one of many anyway &#8211; that makes me really enjoy plans.  I&#8217;m generally fine with going with the flow when that&#8217;s appropriate, but if I&#8217;ve got a plan I&#8217;d really prefer to see that through.  And I tend to get cranky when that plan is disrupted &#8211; based on a belief that the universe likes plans too and that disrupting plans usually lead to some degree of chaos.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Case in point:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I planned (see, here we go) to make a trip over to Target last evening for some items and then a bit to eat at burger king on my way back &#8211; and I asked my room-mate if he needed anything.  He had a few things for me to pick up and also asked me to go to Lowe&#8217;s to re-fill a grill tank.   Not terribly out of the way, but still &#8211; it was not in the original plan.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So, I head over to Lowe&#8217;s first, go inside to the customer service desk and pay for the exchange.  I go back outside &#8211; with a disturbing lack of &#8220;someone will be out soon&#8221; &#8211; and wait.  And I timed it, anticipating a problem.   At 6 minutes I go back inside and then wait at the desk again for the clerk to be available.  She makes a call and tells me someone was closing out a register and would be out there soon.    <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I resume my vigil.   At 14:30, the clerk comes out and says she borrowed the keys to the propane tank cages.   I stop my timer at this point, anticipating success.    Unfortunately, the only cage with full tanks can&#8217;t be opened with those keys.  She goes back in to get the manager and I restart my timer.   The clerk and manager return with keys that work and at 17:19, I get my filled tank and head on my way.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I note the times here not because I&#8217;m going to call their corporate office and complain &#8211; it really wasn&#8217;t that big of a deal &#8211; but because I knew that this additional stop would be problematic.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Is there a deeper meaning to all this?  Do I have a subconscious tap into the underlying order to the universe that allows me to construct smoothly executing plans so long as no one else interferes?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Unlikely, but it should be noted that I had no problems at either Target or Burger King.<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6913097901389264887-955331047335911085?l=thunderofwade.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got a personality quirk &#8211; well, one of many anyway &#8211; that makes me really enjoy plans. I&#8217;m generally fine with going with the flow when that&#8217;s appropriate, but if I&#8217;ve got a plan I&#8217;d really prefer to see that through. 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