The good thing about plans is that you can ignore them as long as you don’t let someone else down. If you agree to go to a pot luck picnic, and don’t show up, they won’t get the food you agreed to bring.
With no planning, you might want to drive to the park and have a picnic with your friends, and you stop off at the store on your way over there to pick up some sodas to share, but when you get there, you are all alone, because they had their picnic scheduled last week.
With no planning, people get in their car in the valley on a nice, warm, sunny day and head for the mountains. When they get half way there, they have to turn around and go back because they have no chains and the roads are too snowy to continue. Plus, they didn’t bring any coats or jackets and they are wearing sandals on their feet. Don’t laugh, this happens every week end in the Spring here.
With no plans, what would I do when my son comes over with his wife, 2 kids and mother in law and says “We were doing our weeks shopping and got hungry, is it OK if we come in for dinner?” (They have an open invitation) So I just go to my very well planned cupboard and get enough food to feed the five extra people – no problem – because I plan ahead, just in case.
I can’t imagine no planning. What about when I wanted to go to the museums last Monday, so I did some research on the internet and found out they close on Mondays. I would have driven all that way for nothing. When relatives wanted to fly up, they asked me to get the tickets and the motel, because I love planning ahead, and I’ve been doing the travel plans for years. I also looked online and found out there was a special event at Sutter’s Fort, which we would have missed without planning ahead.
What I didn’t know was my niece wanted to see a new movie that just came out. If only she would have told me, we could have planned ahead, and she wouldn’t have missed it. The tickets were already sold out by the time she asked about it.
Here’s what happened because I didn’t plan ahead – When everybody finished swimming, they were hungry, so we decided to arrangements to meet at a Hawaiian Buffet restaurant near by. When we got there, we found out it was no longer open, so we looked on the Blackberry for another near-by restaurant. It was also closed, and here were are six hungry adults and four hungry kids in two cars all laughing ourselves silly – So instead of the low cost buffet, we ended up at the expensive Outback and blew our restaurant budget for the next two days.
I went home and made up a very nice cold cut, cheese, fruit platter out of the food I have in my refrigerator, and we ate for “free” the next day.
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