Business in Glasgow

I never thought I would feel as disappointed as I did when I got a Conditions of Let for a public event in the city streets and the required obligations amounted to all the letters of the alphabet bar one.

When I began to check out some of the conditons I was disappointed to realise they  stretched from a – y but “z” was missing. Who wants an extra regulation when you have so many you might think? I just felt there was an incompleteness about the conditons of let when we missed out “z”. This was also surprising when you saw the content of some of the obligations. One was for example ‘you note that no military involvement may take place without the prior agreement of Land Environmental Services.’

When you get rules and regulations like that you wonder if there could possibly be anything else that could be missed because they have obviously taken great care to ensure that every eventuality has been covered.

It got me to think along the lines of, what if you had the chance to add one more rule or regulation to life, what would you make?

I know we are living in a day and generation when the rules and regulations can overwhelm and swamp us, but is there one particular one that strikes you as one that you would like to see as part of the way life and society is structured and organised?

Let me give you an somewhat trivial example to get you thinking:

1. When you are pushing a pram or buggy and trying to struggle into a shop through a very heavy glass door, there should be rule that states that ‘the proprietor or manager of the shop must come and open the door for you whether you are male or female’.

What burning issue is there in your mind that gets you exasperated, fills you with frustration, if not anger because the rest of humankind ignores or misses a very important principle that you feel needs to be observed? How would that affect and shape your life if it was a common principle that everyone accepted and lived by?

We will be discussing that and similar matters around the table on Tuesday 23rd March, if you would like to be part of this discussion then please do drop me a line and I will let you know where we meet. We usually start at 5.30pm at the end of a working day, relax with some good food and drink and have a chat until 7pm.

I look foward to seeing you at some point.