Art of Negotiation

Are you a good negotiator?  

When you were trying to get the car keys, did you manage to convince your parent how logical it would be?  To buy a used guitar for $25 instead of $35? To stay out past the curfew time?  To buy a used car way under the sticker price?

Did you succeed with other negotiations?  

Here is my 2 ½ year old grandson:

Benjamin:  We need an idea.  Let’s…watch TV.

Daddy:   No…we need a better idea.

Benjamin:  Let’s watch……TV.

Daddy:  No.

Benjamin:  We need another idea.  Let’s watch a movie.  On that TV.

To some, the art of negotiation is inborn; it 

comes with the genes.

The Oh-So-Negative Letter N

Krzysztof (Kriss) Szkurlatowski@12frames.eu

The Letter N

My dictionary, The New Lexicon Webter's Dictionary (left behind my kids when they moved out) is handy, as it shows that the letter N garners 27 pages of definitions.  The letter X gets a measly 2 pages, while Z gets 5 pages.  Go figure.

We could go with nourishment, needle, necromancer, Never Land...

The Letter N today is:

NO!

It is well used by children and adults alike.  But my desire is to take N to a different level, with the aid from Ringo Starr.  Here it goes:

Now that was rather painless or very painful.  

It depends on your own Beatle devotion.  (Personally, I was in love with George Harrison.  He seemed to be the only intelligent one of the fab four.)

While my female friends swooned about Paul McCartney and John Lennon, ignored George, they didn't view Ringo Starr as a person.  Ringo Starr?  Really?  Is that even a name?  Pretty much what most nubial girls I knew would say.

Ringo Starr is still alive and enjoying success.  

from Rolling Stone's Artists

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/ringo-starr#ixzz2yskJy5P4 
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With his intelligence, George Harrison viewed Ringo Starr to be one of the best drummers in the business.

My apologies to readers who believe that intelligence is not a common or necessary element for some artists' success.