Saturday, September 20, 2025
ESSAY - WE PUT OUR PANTS ON ONE LEG AT A TIME
The teams included administrative experts, educational experts, program experts, and fiscal experts. On many occasions the regional director himself would be part of the team.
One of the first visits I went on was headed by a new regional director, a very powerful and experienced man, who knew, and was known by, many high-level people in Florida AND in the United States government.
I, being a young accountant, was a bit in awe after all I had heard about him, and after having seen first hand his take charge attitude and ability to cut through the... er... fog.
Our visit was going to last a couple of days and we were put up in a local motel. The director told us to meet in his room for a briefing after dinner.
I was a bit shocked when I entered his room to find the normally immaculately dressed and coiffed leader, sitting in t-shirt and boxer shorts, sipping Jack Daniels. However, despite appearances, and the shock to my naive system, he was still the man in charge, thinking fast and offering clear and distinct guidance and leading the discussion.
"We all put our pants on one leg at a time," never meant as much to me, as that image of the powerful man, being human and exercising his expertise full tilt, in his underwear in a tiny motel room, as he sipped Jack Daniels.
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# posted by Donovan Baldwin @ 6:28 PM 
