I feel like what part of this page you find funny says something about the individual, but I’m not sure what. For me the funniest part is Victoria’s last line, but I felt like the page needed a reaction from Mike that wasn’t visual. His response borders on being mean. Where Mike is in the story Reggie is still a lot more like a problem to be solved than he is to other cast members. He’s certainly less antagonistic to Mike now, especially since Mike did his family such a kind service, but there isn’t the kind or respect you give a truly competent manager. Part of that is that Reggie has such a narrow view of what competence is that he doesn’t see the positive things that Mike does even if he directly observes them. Mike is much more of a soft power leader, and arguably not much of a leader at all where he is right now. At the same time he’s progressed quite a lot and made solid connections with most of the staff. He’s also very young in the grand scheme of things. Being a store manager at 24 isn’t nothing. He’s younger than some of the other characters, but you generally don’t get handed a store unless someone sees some competence in you. Even a store where you send managers to fail has the hope of them rising to the challenge as part of the equation. Anyway, it’s one of those things that I find interesting about constructing a page. Where is the part that is the point of greatest value for each observer?

Anyway, I’m pretty tired, but I think I’ll go see what mom and dad are up to since I can’t get myself to calm down. I hope you have a nice weekend. On Monday I will bring more of my little story to you. Until then, be naturally and artificially flavored.

3017 Hard To Kill.

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