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Unread 25-02-2008, 21:18
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Re: The stupid Noodles...

Ya know, that post sums up exactly one of my greater annoyances with the FIRST program of keeping everything under wraps. How much fuel, energy, and time was wasted there. Assume an engineer billing within a company is 150$ an hour. The exercise is left to the reader.

Give me an OPTION to pre-buy game pieces. We had ruptured our ball before anyone even knew where to order replacements. Poofs had to be tracked down- bad for the environment. Etc etc. Pool noodles- yes, I knew about them but not knowing they were going to be required effectively made me not order them.

It's times like this that I wish there was an option for a super secret committee vote that would call me at 3am in the morning and say "Jason- you have the option of committing an additional 85$ towards the KOP to pre-purchase field equipment. Do you accept this offer?".
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