Although I have never taken one - and cannot feign interest in one enough to take more than a cursory glance at the advertisements when I see one on-line - I am constrained to offer this suggestion to the people who run "Master Class". Add a course entitled "Avoiding Self-Sabotage: You Have Seen the Enemy & It is You!" to your curriculum. Hire Blakelee Sands to teach it.
I have no idea whether young Ms. Sands has yet attained her high school diploma. Still, I have no doubt that she now possesses an understanding of self-sabotage unequaled by any possessor of a Ph.D. One weekend in late January or early February of this year, the eighteen-year-old Oklahoman unsuccessfully tried to use her fake ID to gain entry to the Wolf Trap in Edmond, Oklahoma. Not only did he deny her entry, but the bouncer confiscated the ID.
Quicker than you could utter the mantra "Go Big or Go Home!", our girl Blakelee went big. She went all in. She called 911 and informed the police what had happened. The police arrived, checked the ID, and discovered that "McKamie Queen" (Blakelee's "nom de plume") is forty-three years old, a man, and a resident of Texas. There is video, I presume from the responding officer's body-cam, in which he asks her if she is sure that her ID is real and she responds, incredibly and quite stupidly, it is.
It is not every night that one goes out for Happy Hour and ends up being charged with a felony - without ever having set foot into the intended establishment. A lesson learned? One hopes so.
But at what price?
-AK
In much the way that the TSA has a "No Fly" list, this is someone (and the number would be legion) who should be added to a "No Breed" list.
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