They did OK while I was gone but attendance dropped and the speeches, according to people that were there, were awful. That kind of made me happy because I kind of put a bunch of work into this every Thursday.
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That is good. Nice that it still ran, but not quite as well as when you are there. That definitely has to make you feel a little good!
Yeah it does actually :) When I came back a lot of people privately told me that it just wasn't the same without me. They also said that things were very disorganized and it always started late. I didn't feel like I was running a tight ship but with me the events always started on time. Without me they were starting 15-30 minutes late and it go to the point where people were turning up late intentionally because of this. On my first day back I joking/not joking - ly stated that "if you are not here by 11 (our start time) you don't bowl, period"
The following week everyone was there at 10 minutes to 11 or earlier. I don't like to treat adults like children but I think when left to their own devices large groups of people will devolve into chaos.
Sometimes you just have to do that. If you are on time you are late. That's kind of my point of view. We have friends that are reliably late and we have gotten into the habit of giving them earlier times just to be safe. Sad you have to do adults like that.