I spend the next few days in a black mood. My dad always does shit like this, steam rolling everyone in his path. Sure, his idea is sound. Probably even good. But he should have tipped me off to this plan from the beginning. He wants me to be all grateful to him that he saw this long term vision when he sent me to Nicole’s back yard initially, rather than give me the promotion I’ve been working toward for years.

And I hate how Nicole looked steamrolled about the ...