Valley of the Trolley Dollies

excluding the title, exactly 500 words. And it killed me to take out three great gags. But that’s what it’s all about, folks. Enjoy..

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So everyone knows I work for a large Japanese Bank. One of the world’s largest, in fact, with assets so large they’d make Jeff Stryker jealous.

Well, it’s coming up on year end, and, as always happens at this time of year, I’m fishing around for goals for next year. What do I really want to do? For myself? For the teams I manage? For the company as a whole? How can we start the year with fresh impetus to move forward instead of treading the increasingly brackish water that we’ve been treading for some considerable time now.

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I was raised Catholic. Educated by nuns and Christian Brothers (a religious teaching order; like a low-rent Jesuits), and christened confirmed and ‘massed’ in the Catholic Church.

The Christian Brothers I was educated by were, by and large, not the best advertisement for any religion: They often appeared bitter, resentful, angry, confused, and uncaring. One man amongst them all cancelled out all that damage. He was intelligent, funny, kind, gentle, willing to use the intelligence and kindness to play devil’s advocate in debates, giving arguments that supported ideas or positions that he personally may not have supported. He made a bigger mark in my heart and in my life than any number of other forgettable twisted, cassock wearing psychological misfits.

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