At a real estate closing recently, I noticed a diagram on the wall with an X and a notation “You Are Here.”
I was quite impressed. How did *they* know where I was? *I* didn’t even know where I was. My clients didn’t know where they were. Heck, half the people who worked in that office didn’t know where they were.
Since I don’t have a GPS, I need to find the phone number for the company that made that particular diagram. Then, when I get lost, I can simply call them:
- COMPANY REP: Hello, how may I help you?
- ME: I’m lost. Where am I?
- COMPANY REP: I’m sorry?
- ME: You always seem to know where everyone is – the Xs on the signs say so – so where I am?
- (unprintable response from Company Rep)
- ME: Oh, I wasn’t really planning to go there, but if you say so … shouldn’t I take some extra water, though? I hear it’s really, really hot there.
Maybe the “You Are Here” people can get together with the “Wish You Were There?” vacation brochure people. Surely, technology exists that could immediately transport you from “Here” to “There.” Star Trek says so.
Imagine this conversation:
- ME: I won’t be coming in to work today.
- BOSS: And why not?
- ME: I transported myself to my “wish I were there” place.
- BOSS: oooh-kaay. When are you coming back?
- ME: Depends on when I *wish* I were at back at work.
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Let’s do a little survey: If you could wish yourself to be anywhere in the world (or even out of the world), where would that be and why? Just leave a comment below, and we’ll find out how many of us would be joining you there.
Little hint: If I were taking the survey, my response would not be: “sitting at my computer writing this blog”!
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I’d like to be in the islands off Greece. As a tourist – their economy does not entice enough to be a resident.
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An island sounds wonderful. Preferably one without a lot of people, but with lots of beach.
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Somewhere warm and tropical, on the beach, toes in the sand. I would have an umbrella drink in my hand, brought to me by well oiled cabana boys, with my ocean-front cottage just steps away. Yes, I believe that is where I wish I were right now…or tomorrow…or next year. 🙂
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Oooooo, yes! I will definitely join you there. (But I’ll be the one wearing the Mrs. Doubtfire outfit – trust me, no one wants to see Cordelia’s Mom in a bathing suit.)
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Oh, heck, throw on a sarong! It’s what I’m going to do. 😉
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Sitting at my computer writing this comment. Especially is my computer was somewhere in the south of France.
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Good spin on my last line. Maybe with a laptop I would still write this blog on a French beach, but my viewpoint would be a whole lot different than it is where I am now!
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I wish I were sitting in a playpen full of little pandas, OR in a cafe with an assortment of cuppycakes in an array before me, maybe with a few friends, but probably not pandas and cuppycakes at the same time, for several obvious reasons.
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Well, maybe if there were only a few pandas but lots of cuppycakes? Or you could have the cuppycakes first and then jump into the playpen with the pandas? Or I could play with the pandas while you eat the cuppycakes, or I could eat the cuppycakes while you play with the pandas. Lots of different ways to handle it.
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I’d like some cuppycakes and some pandas, and then we’ll probably each need a nice glass of wine to unwind after we’ve played with the pandas.
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I’m in!
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Huzzah!
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I’d like to be in Germany touring castles and hiking in the forest. While we’re wishing, I’d like there to be about $5,000,000 in my back pocket when I get there.
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I have always wanted to visit the Black Forest and tour the castles. But I would do it while staying in luxury hotels, with a limo and chauffeur to take me to the various sites.
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Hm …anywhere where I am with my family and am not responsible for housework or my day job!!
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Sounds good to me, especially the part about being with your family.
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Tuscany! In a hill village, with “easy”* access to Sienna!
I spent 2 weeks there a few years back, and Wanna Go Back!
*definition of easy is subject to definition, on site 🙂
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Karen – I only just found your comment (need to check those older posts more often!). I don’t know a lot about Tuscany, other than it being the theme in that old Seinfeld episode, but if you want to go back, I say go for it! (And then write a guest post for my blog about your trip – please?).
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