Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Deferred Maintenance




We all face the dilemma of deferred maintenance, of pooh-poohing something that needs attention but continues to grow mold or fall apart or accumulate while we focus elsewhere.  Ho hum; laaaa tee da.  Look the other way, pretend it’s not really there, and oh, turn a deaf ear while you’re at it just in case someone else brings it up.

For example, when a certain lakeside deck morphs into a collection station for miscellaneous artifacts, especially plastic swim tubes, six trillion mis-matched water shoes, and an arsenal of squirt guns, there’s no point in putting them away because they’ll just come right back out.  So this certain deck becomes a mess ALL SUMMER LONG. 

That’s creative justification.  That’s deferred maintenance.  That’s just the way it is.

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