Write a short story about someone whose plan went horribly wrong.
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Dealing with a Bomb
by Mike Zywina, Founder of Lime Green Consulting and former Fundraising Manager at Link Community Development
At Link, my role involved overseeing Morocco Hitch – an iconic and successful student fundraising event.
With hitch-hiking perceived as a ‘risky’ activity, we had a comprehensive range of safety measures and contingency plans designed to safeguard participants and ensure that the event ran smoothly.
While these existed on paper, we hoped that most would never need to be used.
Then one day they were tested and it had nothing to do with hitch-hiking. In April 2011, a bomb exploded in central Marrakech. The explosion happened in a cafe used as a meeting point for students enjoying a holiday after their journey, five minutes before the daily meeting time.
Link operated an excellent daily tracking system and all our student groups had checked in their location the previous evening. However, we had over 600 students whom we couldn’t completely rule out as having been in Marrakech when the incident happened.
While we feared the worst, we knew we had robust safety measures in place. We immediately sent emergency text messages to participants to check they were safe and had a great process for logging incoming information quickly.
We were trained to respond to worried parents and even had a dedicated contact person at the FCO. Within two hours we had spoken to the majority of our students and by late evening we had confirmed that all 600 were safe, although some were understandably distressed.
I couldn’t be more proud of the way my team reacted in very challenging circumstances.
Everybody kept their cool and relied on the processes we had in place. The experience reinforced my belief that very unlikely scenarios can happen and that you need to plan accordingly.
When organising a major challenge event, you take on a burden of responsibility that you must be able to live up to – for the safety of your participants and for the reputation of your event.
Short story writing.
Explanation:
Once there was a young man full of ambition and greed. He only thinks about himself and sees no need to help others. He also has no qualms about cheating others as long as it will profit him.
One day, it so happened that he was looking for a new place to move to for he hated his neighbors. So, while looking for rooms, he came upon an equally cunning old man who has cheated many people before. Both men looked for their own gains but did not know each other's reputation. The young man planned on conning the broker who was old. He pretended to be rich and stated his acceptance of the room but at a lower price. When the broker asked for a booking price, the young man readily agreed, thinking that he can bargain after that. So, he readily paid half of the rent and then started negotiating.
After a while, the old man relented, promising to give him a 20% discount on the rent. But for that, he must pay upfront for the first time so that he will be sure of the young man's decision to move in the very next day. Thinking he had fooled the old man, the young man paid the amount and asked for the key. Feeling happy about his success for he had saved half of what he had expected for the whole place, he started making plans to move in and what he will do with it. But the next day, when he went to move in, the old man was nowhere to be seen. On asking around, he was told that the owner of the place he had purportedly rented was away to another country and that he will come back only next month. And about the old man, he was a conman who was looking for victims to fool. The young man lost his money, and all his plans were ruined.
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