<p>D has a few offers for summer jobs, and had another telephone interview lined up tonight - she told me when it was over there were eight people on the phone. </p>
<p>Anyway, it’s for a competitive coaching position for the summer, and at one point they asked why she is interested in coming to their midwestern city - a place she has never set foot in, and where she knows no one. </p>
<p>She told them, well, she was born in the midwest, and her mother is a midwesterner, and, well, you just don’t find honest, straightforward people like that in the southeast. </p>
<p>Then someone asked her “give us an example of how you deal with conflict”.</p>
<p>So she explained how, as a high school student and summer team captain of club competitors, the leadership of the patrician private club would not cooperate with providing her with the equipment she needed to take her team to a state competition (in spite of the fact that her dues were paid in full and she was a member in good standing), as she was so young, etc., so, she simply grabbed some tools, broke into the facility, stole the equipment, convinced an accomplice to drive it to the competition site, won every event, came home with medals and major press coverage for her team AND the facility, returned the club’s equipment, and then spent three days convincing key members of the board of directors not to bring felony charges. Bottom line, need something, cannot get it? Just steal it (true story). </p>
<p>Later (hard to believe there was actually a “later” after that, but anyway) they asked her why she was graduating with FIVE minors??? She explained if she stopped at four, that would have meant graduating in December, and then she would miss all of the parties, awesome fun, hanging out and good times in the spring, when the rest of her friends graduate. </p>
<p>Never did I laugh so hard…</p>