Tuesday, February 22, 2011

The Advice We Give

A guy comes over the horizon in a hot air balloon.  He passes over a dude standing in a field, looking up.

"Hey!" he yells down.  "I'm late for a wedding.  Can you tell me where I am?"

"You're in a hot air balloon, over my field," the dude yells back.

"You must be a sponsor," the balloon guy says.

"I am.  How can you tell?"

"You've given me a lot of information which, while it's technically correct, doesn't help me at all.  I don't have any idea what to do with it," Mr. Balloon replies.

The field dude says: "You must be a sponsee!"

"I am.  How did you know?"

"You don't know where you are.  You don't know where you're going.  You've made a commitment you can't keep, and somehow it's my fault."

Sounds about right.

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