I learned yet another lesson the hard way, today. Although I’m finding that’s the way of lessons – most of them and all the valuable ones are learned the hard way. Maybe I should just call it “the way.”
I learned that if I’m meeting someone somewhere in public, I need to make sure that we both know that we are going to check in when we get there, in some way or another, such as a quick text of “here!”
I was meeting Elaine for coffee at a large cafeteria. We were aiming 9:15 and she emailed me that she would text me when she got in. I didn’t have her phone number but I assumed she had mine. She didn’t. I got in early and looked all around for Elaine and sat down where I could see her arrive. Here’s the sad part: she did the very same thing! Somehow we missed each other and missed out of half an hour of our visit – wondering where the other one was.
It’s not like we missed each other at the top of the Empire State Building, but it was a needless mix-up and the least I can do is learn something from it!
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