The definition of a crisis.
So I have this friend…
who texts me today that she needs to go out and talk for she’s having a crisis. I start freaking out thinking something awful has happen. My imagination is sparked with her Mom having had a bad result at the doctors, her dog getting hit by a car, or other major disasters only the word crisis could describe. We decided to head out to dinner after I get off my late night meeting. She looks a bit distressed as she sits down and I’m waiting patiently for the crisis news, then my patience runs out, I want to know already! I finally take the initiative and ask, ” So, what’s the crisis?” She downcast her head and says, ” Now I don’t want you to judge me…” Here I input a thought of what she must have done. She starts telling me what its like to be a laid off worker and blah, blah, blah. I’m sitting there antsy as ever wondering when the crisis will come up and finally I blow up, ” SO, WHAT’S THE CRISIS?”
Her answer, you ready for this?
” I don’t remember how to use Excel anymore!”
Seriously people? How do you define a crisis? I define it as a major disaster or a closeness of death, of anything. Her response was that it was a closeness of death to her ability to work in an office again! You’ve got to be kidding me.
So I’ve got this friend… who should never be interviewed on what a crisis entails.
