Me being the incredibly high IQ person that I am.
Who everyone adores…
I’ve happened to have one of those days, where I ordered £60 worth of food
From a restaurant that is over 163 miles away, tucked away neatly in London.
Now my local place it’s usually around £25-30 and within a few minutes walk…
I should have noticed the price, but I was like “Well it’s probably just inflation or whatever”.
So when I got the message to collect I was like “Hell yea” and went off to get the goods.
I arrived and they were like “There’s no order for you. You might wanna check the app again”
And so I did and that’s when it hit me. Yep. I picked a restaurant with the same sounding name, based in London.
I laughed, they laughed and the owner gave me a drink cause we’re all good.
“It’ll take us 20 minutes to whip up your usual,” he says.
(Which is crazy if you’ve got a regular meal at a local restaurant and they all know you by name and/or beard awesomeness)
Anywho…
Long story long. I got my meal. I went hope and was just laughing at my own stupidity.
Life happens. Shit happens and you know? Not everything can be all peaches and cream.
And so when I got to thinking again about this who creative life most of us have decided to adopt. We know all too well that things aren’t gonna go smoothly.
Sometimes it’ll cost us money. Sometimes it’ll cost us relationships and sometimes it’ll cost us friends and family.
Will the outcome always be good? Hell no. Sometimes it’s bad and sometimes it’s just blasé with a side “meh-sauce”
But you know what we do?
We don’t cry about an order placed 163 miles away while being hangry.
We crack on and do what needs to be done.
We get some more food and we keep writing to our audience while sharing the wild and zany shit that does happen to go down.
And while I may be just shy of £100 out of pocket for a meal. Lessons were learned.
Well, it’s 22:20 as of sending this.
And the only real lesson is to re-read yo’ shit.
Pitches to clients, contracts or deals set up between you and someone else. Our brains do this magical thing where we gloss over comforts and that can sometimes bite us in the ass.
Stephen Walker