My friends and I have a saying.  “Bow.”  People always ask what we mean by “bow” when we say it, and its often hard to define.  Simply put, it’s just a thing you say when things don’t make sense or make you disgruntled as a substutite for an explitive, but also so much more than that.  It could be an expression of how you feel or a just a phrase you use for no good reason what so ever.

By the way – it’s “Bow” and in bow and arrow.  It is NOT “bow” as in the sound a dog makes.

Today I had an incident at work that really exemplifies the definition of “Bow”.  Let me explain as follows:

I don’t like working.
I don’t like working overtime.
I don’t like working unpaid overtime.
I don’t like working unpaid overtime on a Friday evening.
I don’t like working unpaid overtime on a Friday evening only to find out two weeks later that everything you discussed on that Friday evening is for not because the people whom you discussed the issues with have since decided that they didn’t want to do the extra work required by what you discussed on said Friday evening – so now you have to go back to the drawing board to a list of suggestions which you had made months ago.

Note that it was said on this call today that no thought had yet been put into this effort.  My actual response was, “I seem to recall spending about three hours discussing this on a Friday evening, and I’d hate to think that one of my Friday evenings had been wasted for nothing.”

Bow.