There is a writer, sorry that I can't recall to quote him who said that 'avoid words as youth, digital and innovation' as key words to any agenda. I agree. They are as vague a words as saying man to mean both man and woman, Earth to mean creation and sun to mean light - there is more than that to it.
The meeting was to start at 10am. The leader was in earlier but took to photocopying a memorandum of understanding to come an hour later when not a many had arrived. The meeting started at midday with a bad attendance you would think it was for the selected few.
Pen borrowing menace kicked off as they rushed to put down their names on a paper and sign badly. It would be a checklist for future handouts, opportunities. If you do not stand to let the last person use your pen you will never see it again. They came in tight trousers and blazers with big phones, not a pen.
They kick up a discussion without a clear agenda and get swayed to the sumptuous. 'tenders'. 'The county government need give us the opportunities, give us tenders, make us grow.' They have never even had coins to do hawking. They want tenders. They also want to be rich.
Much time spent there one correcting another so that he sounds knowing, the event is left to gentlemen and ladies to speak to each other in rising tones. Lastly we suggest we want a tender to supply newspapers. An old should not be given that. Is he not under special group category? I get asked.
The grammatical errors on the issued paper are massive. Would I be in order to change the discussion to that? If we could only do correct sentences then we would be guided to do greater things too. Only two pages and no one had the appetite to read. He should have shared it on phones, just maybe we would read.
It ends with conflicts, some suggesting there exists registered youth channels and ours was an illegal meeting, others thinking the people who assembled us were doing PR to be known, go about bargaining with our tag, bottled water was drunk, the church venue had been paid, none asked by who.
We took a picture together, me rushing to be the photographer, taking several of them and loved it when none stammered that he would take as I joined the rest. Who wants to be photographed there? Shame.
How was the event? You are asked by that who skipped. 'I know them, they never are serious with anything but their stomachs and libidos, not heads. Being different is something else.
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