Via the blessings of destiny, I discovered that the identical venue had booked a buddy’s stand-up present concurrently.
Oops.
Now, I’ve two choices:
- Pitch an absolute match! Blow up relationships with everybody and demand that the one who screwed this up FIX IT RIGHT NOW.
- Chuckle and transfer on, grateful it wasn’t worse
Simply FYI, there’s no good approach to repair two exhibits which might be anticipating to be on the stage concurrently.
So I requested my buddy what was happening, and he or she confirmed that she had a stand-up present on that date and that that they had already offered tickets. Our present was a free, unticketed present– we practiced new supplies at these pop-ups and we don’t cost for untested materials.
The reply was clear: We might step again and help the stand-up present, and we’d run our pop-up in April.
And have you learnt concerning the venue booker? Nicely, earlier than I might even attain out to them, they reached out to me and apologized profusely. Requested what they may do to assist.
And I simply mentioned, “I perceive. Snafus occur. We’ll do the pop-up in April, and don’t fear about it.”
Why? As a result of mix-ups occur. They do! And we’re simply so pleased we came upon about it earlier than all of us confirmed up on the venue and needed to combat one another for the stage.
Failing with pleasure is a key precept in Improv comedy and permitting others to fail with pleasure as properly is a key precept in life.
It might not profit me to be offended over a calendar error. Making this individual really feel worse than they already do wouldn’t repair the issue.
One of the best factor to do was merely to snigger, be grateful we discovered now and never then. And transfer foward with life.
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