Jeri wrote: A carefully-considered plan will help. How about this one?
Year one.
Target young person at convention. Laugh at her jokes. Ask about her
children. Provide advice about how to obtain lace supplies. Ask young person to write
up convention report for local newsletter. Praise her for her prose and
computer skills. Suggest she edit newsletter.
Year two
Call young person frequently on the phone asking her how she is and offering
lace advice. If necessary visit her at home to assist her through difficult
talley. Listen sympathetically to any marital or job complaints. If she appears
lonely and wants friends suggest the hearty commaraderie of putting on a lace
day as the antidote. Every vulnerability can be exploited into free labor for
the lace group.
Year three
Present young person with specially inscribed bobbin at annual banquet in
congratulations for her work on the newsletter. Follow up with phone call to
propose she become secretary.
Year four
The young person will be refining her lace goals at this point. It is an
excellent moment to suggest that the way she could achieve them would be to become
program chairman and design every program to suit her personal needs.
Year five
This is the year to drop the net and make her vice president. Any
protestations that she doesn't have enough time must be met with tearful assertions
that
only she has the efficiency to make the group fulfill its full potential. It
might also be good to lay the groundwork for her to quit her job by assuring
her that she owes it to her husband and children.
Year six.
If all has gone well, it is time to move her into the presidency. If the
husband is balking, it is time to suggest that she needs to "do something for
herself".
Year seven
When she tries to withdraw from the presidency, tell her that the group will
disband if she doesn't remain, as no one else will be president.
:-) :-) :-) :-)
Devon
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