And Then They Ask About Pink Crayons

“What do you mean Orange is backordered?  Don’t we keep Orange in stock?” – Fictional Kindergarten Meeting

Orange what, exactly?  Crayons?  

Strictly speaking, when I thought of this, I was thinking about construction paper, but I can see how the same could be applied to crayons.  

The thought harkens back to when I had to sit in status meetings at work and talk about broken equipment.  The discussion would invariably boil down to a berating over the fact that the piece of equipment was broken for too long and asking when it would be fixed.  83% of the time, the reason for the breakage was a part that needed to be replaced, and we didn't have the part in stock, so we had to order it from the supplier.  This process took too long, but the alternative (keeping the parts in stock) was considered too expensive, so even though there was an active decision to not stock the parts, there would constantly be questions about why the parts weren't in stock.  

It made me think of how much more entertaining this same discussion would be if it were about construction paper for a kindergarten art project.  When I thought of it, it wasn't even the teacher asking about the availability of orange paper...it was one of the kids, who apparently was voted "Manager Of The Day," and was in charge of both paper availability and feeding the class guinea pig.  

Guinea pigs are funny.