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I see a lot of projects within business support organizations that look like "implement this tool." And then the organization is surprised when the project takes much longer than expected and the tool doesn't get used to the extent expected.
Clarke Ching's "Rolling Rocks Downhill" is a great business novel, primarily about TOC and Agile. I like how it combines a number of perspectives and shows how real value can be obtained in surprisingly short time horizons. That said, it helps when there is outside pressure.
A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. - Annie Dillard
A quick article with opinions from six people on project killers: 6 Experts Share the #1 Thing That Derails a Project | Smartsheet. Of course, there are six different things listed as "the #1 thing." And there are a few more listed in the comments.
A quick anecdote from Realization's newsletter on "There is no such thing as good multitasking" and some thoughts around the idea.
In 7 Wastes That Impact Business Growth Jon Terry, one of the founders of LeanKit, presents a nice way of thinking through the Lean / Toyota Production System idea of waste and how one my think about it in the context of business growth in any type of organization.
The latest HBR Ideacast interview with Erin Reid talks about Why We Pretend to be Workaholics (based on a related HBR article). I enjoyed the discussion, but what really got to me is this idea of "pretending to be busy."
I came across the video from the University of Texas 2014 Commencement address by Admiral William H McRaven in which he describes his training and draws ten life lessons. The story is engaging, and while the lessons out of context sound odd, they make sense in the way he puts it together.
"The CIO's Guide to Breakthrough Project Portfolio Performance: Applying the Best of Critical Chain, Agile, and Lean" by Michael Hannan, Wolfram Muller, and Hilbert Robinson is a good, short description of how to take ideas from several disciplines and apply them to an overall portfolio management approach.
Rather than describe the solution - a description that is always going to be lacking - understand what problem the customer is trying to solve. What limitation or barrier do they need to overcome? And why do they want to do that?
Clarke Ching has posted a chapter of his ever-in-beta book on Agile / TOC in software developmetnt. His comments ring true and remind me of things that Dave Snowden talks about frequently.
Rob Newbold of ProChain held a session, diving into one of the big themes of his book, The Project Manifesto. It was good listening to him talk about it, as I picked up some things I hadn't appreciated from reading the book alone.
Interesting video from Mary Poppendieck on The Tyranny of "The Plan". It's full of good anecdotes and a couple of great examples of how planning could really work, instead of they way it usually (doesn't) work today.
Rob Newbold's latest book takes the reader further down into how to run projects (with CCPM). This book will be something to talk about with my colleagues and friends who are running these kinds of projects.
When planning a project, are you more interested in the dates every activity happens, or are you more interested in how all the activities are connected together?
I re-read Goldratt's book on the TOC approach to project management, Critical Chain. Some interesting food for thought here, even for a guy who does quite a bit of CCPM work.
I picked up Steve Tendon and Wolfram Muller's Tame the Flow: Hyper-Productive Knowledge-Work Management shortly after the TOCICO conference in June, and every time I pick it up I glean a different take on the embedded ideas. I enjoyed the thinking here, particularly since I am seeing more and more project management that is all about managing the flow of knowledge work.
"Were you reading a business book written as a graphic novel?" Yep. It was _Commitment_ by Olav Maassen, Chris Matts, and Chris Geary. It is an interesting take on project management with a focus on real options, a topic that I've been obliquely aware of.
After the TOC ICO conference, I picked up Yuji Kishira's Wa - Transformation Management by Harmony, based on a conversation with him and other attendees. It is a fun take on Theory of Constraints, change management and other topics.
Is Agile at all compatible with project management? Should we even try to make them talk to each other? Wolfram Müller talked through his views on Agile, and on how some of the TOC applications could be thought of as working together with the Agile mechanisms.
Avraham Mordoch presented his thoughts on an organizational maturity model for project management environments, and specifically related to Critical Chain Project Management. It was very interesting to listen to in relation to my recent experiences with project management work.
How about this for advocating Theory of Constraints? The opening keynote from Mazda at the TOC ICO conference ended with the statement, "Made with TOC." They even had a couple cars in the parking lot to show off.
Ihab Sarieddine has a nice overview of CCPM in his blog on project management, "Improving Scheduling Using Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM)."
I've had the Stop Starting, Start Finishing brochure / comic from Arne Rock and his team sitting in my briefcase ever since the Lean Kanban conference last spring. It's a fun read about how Justin (Time) does a Kanban implementation.
Working with clients on project management, as I do, I see a familiar theme come up over and over again. People have a difficult time separating the creation of an idea from starting to work on that idea.
Project management and knowledge management are about getting things done. I attended and spoke at the Center for Business Information (CBI) 6th Annual Forum on Knowledge Management this week in Philadelphia. Rather than talk about knowledge management directly, I opted to speak about managing projects - whether they are KM or other types.
Philip Marris, who I met at this year's TOC ICO conference in Chicago has published a nice case study of Critical Chain, focused on problems common to the pharmaceutical industry.
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Portia Tung has a choose-your-own adventure version of a business novel, this time about going into a client as an Agile Coach (consultant) with five days to turn things around.
The Boston Globe had an article on "How to make time expand" this weekend. Interesting research suggests that giving away time creates the perception of having more time.
I attended an interesting talk by Dan Vacanti last week at the monthly Agile New England meeting. I enjoyed the talk overall, and I particularly enjoyed his emphasis on the Cumulative Flow Diagram as a key diagnostic tool - it's predictive.
The second half of the day today was devoted to breakout sessions on each of the TOC application areas. The stated goal was on having people familiar with these applications discuss opportunities for improvement. I decided to sit in on the projects (CCPM) discussion.
Thought without action is a dream. Action without thought is a disaster.
Tuesday opened with a fun, story-filled keynote from Gregory Howell of the Lean Construction Institute. He had some interesting things to say about commitment and collaboration in the context of projects.
Tony Schwartz has a great piece on "The Magic of Doing One Thing at a Time" that has inspired a lot of comments and additional conversation. Multitasking - and eliminating it - is an important topic to doing well as an individual as well as in organizations that want to get stuff done.
There is a new research survey out there on Critical Chain Project Management implementations. If you have ever participated in or run a CCPM implementation, please go take the survey.
How often do initiatives get bogged down with the introduction of shiny, new tools instead of the meat of the change?
I breezed through Jim Benson's short and informative Why Plans Fail: Cognitive Bias, Decision Making, and Your Business. As you can see from the subtitle, it isn't about blaming someone else for why plans fail. It's about helping us see how our own thinking gets us in this mess.
A local paper has a great quote that is takes four times longer to complete two tasks effectively than to do each one individually.
Great find by Michael Krigsman on project management lessons in an academic paper. Nice reminder that idleness is only a problem when it is attached to value in the organization: idle projects / products.
Don't use milestones to manage your projects. Use buffers at key integration points and a project buffer at the end. This is a much more reasonable way to manage your project and the natural variability of execution.
Yesterday doesn't mean much when I want to know the status of the project and whether there are any bumps on the path to getting to done.
Pay attention to what you are doing. Think beforehand, and then take action. And of course, check that your actions are taking you in the right direction and correct course as needed.
Recent research suggests that (IT) projects are ticking time bombs, but does it have to be this way? CCPM can help.
Interesting commentary from Bruce Benson on protecting imperfect data and plans. He suggests and I agree that we should give as much as possible to people, so they can take action.
Overview of Larry Leach's "Lead Project Leadership" in which he blends CCPM with other improvement perspectives and straight up Project Management skills.
Andreas Scherer's business novel, Be Fast or Be Gone, was a very fast read for me. I thought it did a great job of describing how Critical Chain Project Management might be introduced to an organization without going into the gory detail of what-is-CCPM.
Geoffrey Moore talks about reaching your escape velocity in a Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders podcast. I took away another version of the dangers of multitasking - at the team level.
Fun with workload limits from Scott Adams and Dilbert.
I've been added to a list of "best project management blogs." Nice.
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Does Alcohol Consumption Increase the Risk of Atrial Fibrillation or Flutter?
Data on the association between alcohol consumption and atrial fibrillation or flutter are inconsistent. To address this issue, Danish researchers measured baseline alcohol consumption in 47,949 subjects aged 50–64 years and prospectively identified incident atrial fibrillation or flutter (374 male cases and 182 females cases) over a mean follow-up of 6 years.
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The Executive Chairman of Telefónica (NYSE:TEF) (LSE:TDE), César Alierta, emphasised that "our performance in the quarter was in line with the targets set for the year. First quarter results show visible progress in the execution of the strategy announced for 2014, based on further reinforcing the differentiation of our products and services through a non-replicable infrastructure. In this sense, we are making significant investments, accelerating our network modernization".
- The Company reaches a leverage ratio of 2.30 times OIBDA after having reduced its net debt by 2,657 million euros in the first quarter to bring it down to 42,724 million euros.
- The Company's earnings grew organically (+1.5%) for the fourth quarter running to stand at 12,232 million euros at 31 March 2014. It is worth highlighting the growth of our mobile data earnings (+8.8%), which represent 40% of total mobile revenues, and the strong growth of our high-value client base, coming from mobile contract (+9%), smartphone penetration and also of our fibre and pay TV operations.
- OIBDA totalled 3,929 million euros and accelerates its organic growth (+0.5%) compared to the previous financial year thanks to the sustained growth of earnings and the success of the expenses control and efficiency measures implemented by the Company.
- The variation in exchange rates had an impact on our 1Q14 results by bringing year-on-year earnings growth down by 11.8 p.p. and reducing OIBDA by 11.7 p.p. Earnings were also affected by perimeter changes, especially by the sale of Telefónica Czech Republic, which brought them down by 3.1 p.p., with OIBDA falling by 3.7 p.p.
- The acceleration of our network modernization reflects in a significant organic CapEx increase (+29.5%) compared to the first quarter of 2013. Investments related with transformation and growth accounted for over two thirds of the total CapEx figure in the first quarter.
- Despite this significant organic increase of CapEx and the effect of exchange rates and perimeter changes, the Company reported a solid cash flow generation, with a relevant improving year-on-year by 796 million euros, the largest in a first quarter since 2011.
- The results reported by Telefónica Spain reflect the continued recovery of the business. Earnings show an important improvement in the downward trend in 3.7 p.p. compared to the previous quarter and an improved commercial development, mostly in fibre, pay TV and an increased preference for quality services. Movistar Fusión remained the fundamental lever for growth in Spain with a customer base of 3.2 million.
- Telefónica Brazil also continued to strengthen its leadership in the highest value segments thanks to the competitive advantage it enjoys in network coverage and quality and to the universal appeal of its commercial offerings. This translated into an organic earnings growth of 2.9% (ex-regulation) and once more highlights the Company's net profit performance in the contract segment (1.2 million accesses) and with respect to fibre rollout, with the current figure of 1.5 million homes passed.
- Telefónica's market financing activities during the first quarter ended it at around 5,700 million euros, meaning that the Company finds itself in a comfortable position regarding liquidity from which to tackle the next round of debt payments.
Telefónica's 1Q14 results are in line with the Company's internal earnings, OIBDA and CAPEX over sales estimates and therefore reiterates its operational and financial targets for the year, including the dividend. During the first three months of the year Telefónica moved forward with the implementation of its transformation strategy and operating model, the aim of which is to maximise value creation and make the most of the growth opportunities offered by the digital revolution.
According to Telefónica Chairman César Alierta, "we continue to improve our financial flexibility, posting the strongest first quarter cash flow generation in the last three years after registering a solid year-on-year improvement, despite higher investments, the negative impact of exchange rates and asset disposals. This allowed to register a further decline in net debt another quarter, bringing total reduction to around 16 billion euros over the last 7 quarters".
In this respect, the results presented today by Telefónica reflect the improvement in the organic growth of its earnings and OIBDA thanks to the strategy of attracting high-value customers, the efforts being made to simplify its operation and cost savings. It is also worth highlighting the continued reduction of the Company's debt level, which has fallen by 2,657 million euros with respect to December 2013 to stand, at the end of March of this year, at 42,724 million euros. Were operations subsequent to the closure of the first quarter to be included (sale of Telefónica Ireland), the debt would stand at 41,944 million euros. Therefore, at the end of March the debt ratio (net debt over OIBDA) stood at 2.30 times, and this would be reduced to 2.27 times were the aforementioned operations carried out after the close of the quarter to be included.
Regarding accesses, at the end of March they totalled 313.1 million, 1% less than one year ago, due precisely to the deconsolidation of the business in Czech Republic and to the sale of the residential business in the UK, without the effect of which they would have enjoyed a year-on-year growth of 2%.
By segments, mobile accesses increased by 3% year-on-year in organic terms to 247.5 million at the end of the quarter thanks to strong contract access growth (+9% organic), accounting for 35% of the total (+1 percentage point year-on-year). Particularly noteworthy is T. Brasil's ongoing progress in capturing high-value customers (+28% year-on-year in contract customers, with net additions in the quarter up 70% year-on-year). Smartphone (all with a data plan attached) penetration stood at 30% at the end of March 2014 (+9 percentage points year-on-year) and retail fixed broadband accesses totalled 17.6 million, up 2% vs. March 2013 in organic terms. Pay TV accesses (3.6 million) rose 8% year-on-year, highlighting the performance of T. España (consolidating its recovery trend for the second quarter in a row) and the double-digit year-on-year growth of T. Hispanoamérica and T. Brasil.
According to César Alierta, "we are building a more sustainable growth model leveraged on higher customer satisfaction. The acceleration in the modernisation of our networks is reflected commercially in the evolution of our customer base; contract mobile accesses grew almost double-digit year-on-year underpinned by the acquisition of almost 6 million smartphone customers, doubling the figure of the first quarter of 2013 while in the fixed business, fibre customer base increased 90% year-on-year. As a result, the value of our customer base has increased due to both the improved ARPU and the higher loyalty, leading to a longer average customer lifetime".
Apart from perimeter changes, exchange rate fluctuations, in particular the depreciations of the Brazilian reai and the Argentine peso along with the implicit devaluation of the Venezuelan bolivar, negatively impacted financial results. Thus, in the January-March period exchange rates deducted 11.8 percentage points to year-on-year revenue growth and 11.7 percentage points to OIBDA growth.
Revenue organic growth for the fourth quarter in a row
First quarter revenues totalled 12,232 million euros in January-March 2014, up 1.5% year-on-year in organic terms (-13.5% reported), posting positive growth for the fourth quarter in a row and accelerating vs. full-year 2013. Excluding the negative impact of regulation, organic revenues grew 3.4% compared with January-March 2013.
By services, mobile data revenue growth accelerated compared with the previous quarter (+8.8% year-on-year in organic terms; +7.8% in the fourth quarter of 2013), now accounting for 40% of mobile service revenues, up 2 percentage points compared with the first quarter of 2013. It is also noteworthy the performance of non-SMS data revenues in January-March 2014, improving year-on-year growth to 23.6% in organic terms and already accounting for 71% of total data revenues (+8 percentage points year-on-year).
Consolidated operating expenses totalled 8,548 million euros in the quarter, up 1.5% year-on-year in organic terms (-13.0% reported), with the pace of year-on-year growth easing for the second consecutive quarter due to strict cost control and efficiency measures, despite the high level of commercial activity.
Operating income before depreciation and amortisation (OIBDA) in the first quarter of 2014 amounted to 3,929 million euros, up 0.5% year-on-year in organic terms (-14.0% reported), with growth accelerating vs. full year 2013 and posting positive year-on-year growth for the second consecutive quarter. This performance was underpinned by sustained revenue growth and cost containment measures, along with efficiencies and synergies from the new operating model. Excluding the adverse impact of regulation, OIBDA grew by 1.9% compared with January-March 2013 in organic terms.
The OIBDA margin stood at 32.1% at the end of the first quarter, virtually stable year-on-year in organic terms compared with the same period of 2013 (-0.3 percentage points). Operating income (OI) in the first quarter of 2014 stood at 1,838 million euros, up 5.2% year-on-year in organic terms (-11.0% reported).
As a result, consolidated net income in the first quarter amounted to 692 million euros (-23.2% year-on-year; 16.6% underlying) and basic earnings per share amounted to 0.15 euros per share (-27.0% year-on-year; -20.0% underlying).
CapEx up to March totalled 1,555 million euros (-19.9% year-on-year) and included 187 million euros relating to the acquisition of spectrum in Colombia and Central America (695 million euros in the first quarter of 2013, mainly in the UK). In organic terms, investments rose 29.7% year-on-year, with more than 69% of total investments devoted to business transformation and growth.
As a result, free cash flow amounted to 339 million euros in the first quarter, the highest since 2011, posting a significant year-on-year improvement of 796 million euros.
Financing activity of 5,700 million euros in the quarter
In the first quarter of 2014, Telefónica's financing activity through bond and loan markets stood at around 5,700 million equivalent euros. This activity was mainly focused on strengthening the liquidity position and smoothing the debt maturity profile of Telefónica S.A. for the following years. Therefore, as of the end of March, the Group maintains a comfortable liquidity position to accommodate next years debt maturities. In Hispanoamérica, Telefónica's subsidiaries tapped financing markets for approximately 124 million equivalent euros in the first quarter of 2014. Also noteworthy is the 500-million-euro bond placement by T. Deutschland in January.
Telefónica maintains total undrawn committed credit lines with different credit entities for an approximate amount of 12,560 million euros, with around 11,250 million maturing in more than 12 months.
Digital Services and Telefonica Global Resources
In the new area of the Chief Commercial Digital Officer, recently established to bring digital services to the core of our businesses, we could highlighted in the B2B area, the M2M agreement signed by Telefónica with JCDecaux, the world's leader in outdoor advertising, to bring connectivity and new digital features to a new range of smart M2M powered solutions for urban environment in Europe and Latin America; and the one reached with Tesla, an industry-leader of in-car telematics. Thus, M2M revenue grew by more than 50% year-on-year in organic terms in the first quarter.
With regards to Cloud services, revenue advanced by more than 20% organic year-on-year in the first three months of the year, gradually adding value to our offering. Information Security revenues grew slightly above 20% organic year-on-year in the quarter fueled by strong momentum in "CyberSecurity".
It should be also mentioned some strategic investments made as the creation of "Axonix", the first mobile Advertising exchange platform owned and powered by a mobile operator; the one reached with "Saluspot" for E-health services, which enables to offer free online health advice; and the Spanish cloud computing start-up "eyeOS" was acquired, enabling Telefónica to offer an open-source desktop virtualisation service.
In Video, within the area of Consumer, Telefónica acquired for Spain exclusive content rights in Moto GP and Formula 1. Thus, the strategic focus on fostering Pay TV growth is delivering positive results with revenues growing in organic terms by 12% year-on-year and accesses by 8% year-on-year in the quarter, and increasing market share in the main markets where the Company is present.
Additionally, in April the brand of the Digital Financial Services ("Yaap") to be provided in Spain by the joint venture established with CaixaBank and Santander was announced. Two services will be launched in the coming months, "Yaap Shopping", a virtual showroom helping small businesses, and "Yaap Money", a peer to peer service that will enable people to send money from one mobile device to another.
Telefónica Global Resources continued driving the Company's technological transformation during the quarter, accelerating network modernisation and simplification, ensuring a higher quality of infrastructure and systems and enhancing the differentiation of products and services. In the global Network and Operations unit sharply accelerated the rollout of ultra-broadband infrastructure. Homes passed with fibre amounted to 5.8 million, around 80% more than in March 2013, and LTE sites deployment increased by more than 3 times year-on-year to reach more than 10,200 sites. The global IT unit is developing the Company's IT transformation strategy through: (i) consolidation, focusing on the Data Centres, technical infrastructure and corporate applications; (ii) simplification and transformation of applications; and (iii) support for transformation towards a Digital Telco.
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Finding fresh fish and keeping it fresh is essential to producing high-quality sushi. Ensuring that the fish does not have parasites is another key component of creating sushi, since most sushi or sashimi includes raw seafood ingredients. Here are some tips on how to find the best fish for sushi and how to store it safely and keep it fresh to maintain flavor and texture.
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Sushi Grade Fish: A Warning
The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) does not offer any clear regulations or standards for what makes fish acceptable for serving raw. Health codes do recommend that the fish be frozen to kill any parasites that might be present, but this law only regulates sales of certain species of fish served raw. Sushi bars usually operate without any clear regulations from their local health codes on preparing the raw fish.
So even if fish is sold as "sushi grade," this is merely a marketing term that fish retailers use to promote their fish as high-quality. It may or may not have been frozen: even fish that is marketed as "fresh" is often thawed from a frozen state. The best way to find fish that is appropriate for sushi is to purchase the freshest fish possible.
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- Shop for live fish. Some grocery stores and meat markets will keep live fish in an aquarium for customers to purchase. If you pick out a live fish to take home, you know exactly how fresh it is. Just check the skin for blemishes, which might be a sign of disease.
- Buy fish in season. The safest way to find fresh fish is to look for fish that is in season. Each species of fish is unique and may have a different harvesting season. Browse the sushi fish buying guide by species to find out when a certain fish is being freshly harvested. » How to Select and Store Sushi
- Note how the fish is stored. Choose fish that is on fresh ice, not ice that is melting. It should be in an enclosed case or under a cover.
- Smell the fish. The fishier the fish smells, the more likely it is not fresh.
- Look at the eyes. In most fish, the eyes should be clear and bulging. This is an indication of freshness. Only a few fish, like the walleye pike, naturally have cloudy eyes.
- Feel the flesh. The flesh should be firm and shiny. It should spring back when pressed. If the flesh is firm but not shiny, the fish was probably frozen at some point. If the flesh is mushy, the fish is not fresh enough for sushi.
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- Examine the color. Avoid seafood with green or yellow coloring or darkening on the flesh, unless it is naturally yellow in color like the sea urchin. Also be suspicious of fish that is unusually bright red. Some fish are treated with carbon monoxide, which will give the fish an unnatural red color that makes old fish appear fresher. If you are unsure whether the red color is natural, try to find out if the fish was treated with carbon monoxide.
- Check the label on shellfish. When buying shellfish, look at the label to make sure it is up to code. Any shellfish sold in the United States should have a label that notes that it meets FDA recommendations.
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The use of thrombolytic agents to dissolve intravascular thrombi is surging beyond its previous confines. In the mid-1960s, uncontrolled studies in patients with pulmonary embolism were sufficiently impressive for the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to undertake controlled trials. Sharma et al1 have recently summarized the two major trials of the 1970s that demonstrated that thrombolytic agents were effective in the short-term and long-term treatment of pulmonary embolism. Studies in deep-venous thrombosis have shown that thrombolytic therapy not only more rapidly resolves thrombi than does heparin sodium in this setting, but it also preserves the integrity of the valves of the involved veins.2 The controversy regarding direct perfusion of recently thrombosed coronary arteries with streptokinase in patients with acute myocardial infarction continues, with two recent prospective randomized trials reaching opposite conclusions.3,4
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The Banna caecilian, Ichthyophis bannanicus, is a species of amphibian in the Ichthyophiidae family found in southern China and northern Vietnam, presumably also in adjacent eastern Myanmar and northern Laos.[2] Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, rivers, intermittent rivers, plantations, rural gardens, heavily degraded former forest, irrigated land, and seasonally flooded agricultural land. It is threatened by habitat loss.[1]
- ^ a b Yuan Zhigang, Chou Wenhao, Wilkinson, M. & Gower, D. (2004). "Ichthyophis bannanicus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 6 July 2013.
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This is a discussion on The Good Grandpa within the Off Topic & Humor Discussion forums, part of the The Back Porch category; A woman is in a grocery store and happens upon a grandpa and his poorly behaving 3 year-old grandson at every turn. It's obvious Gramps ...
A woman is in a grocery store and happens upon a grandpa and his poorly behaving 3 year-old grandson at every turn. It's obvious Gramps has his hands full with the kid screaming for candy in the candy aisle, cookies in the cookie aisle; same for fruit, cereal and soda. Meanwhile, Gramps is working his way around, saying in a controlled voice, 'Easy, Albert, we won't be long -- easy, boy.'
Another outburst, and she hears Gramps calmly say, 'It's okay, Albert, just a couple more minutes and we'll be outta here -- hang in there.'
At the checkout, the little terror is throwing items out of the cart, and Gramps again in a controlled voice is saying, 'Albert, Albert, relax buddy, don't get upset. We'll be home in five minutes; stay cool, Albert.'
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'Thanks, lady,' said Gramps, 'But I'm Albert -- the little brat's name is Stevie.'
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