Like a Wrecking Ball
on July 30, 2014
at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Whine of the Ancient Mariner
Characters: Charity Cheeger, Leonard Lion
Location: manager's room
Lions pretty much go straight for the nuclear option. It’s just their nature.
Musta been cheap if he’s so quick to jump on that conclusion.
Gathering from what seems to be a foreclosure case, it sounds like it, and her uncle preety much bought the property for the land value, as it’s beachfront and thus would likely make a preety penny on the market for housing, or new commercial property.
Bulldoze? What happened to the good old days when you’d use dynamite with an acme plunger attached to destroy things?
From orbit, maybe?
Bulldoze it? Make a real short cartoon… 😉
Nahh, it’s fixable, but it’ll take a chunk of work. Then once it’s shipshape, the joys of piloting it between the reefs and shoals of life.
The nice thing about the “nuclear option” is that one needn’t deal with the frustrations of attempting to escalate matters very much from there. ;-p
Actually, I kind of suspect Leonard is using the bulldozer tactic as a means of spurring Charity into the kind of drastic actions that he probably already suspects the Rough House will require if it can be saved at all. From his point of view, Tiffany’s and his investment is already covered on real estate value alone; a purchase like that is probably all the indication he needs of what condition the business itself is in. Let’s not forget that he’s already familiar with eking out success from a venture that’s barely surviving on a shoestring, himself. If a “sink or swim” mentality among the staff and new manager can actually turn the Rough House back into a profitable business, then it’s all to the good, right?
Besides, I’d bet a couple shiny new nickels that Leonard has *many* measures of success, and most of the possible outcomes for the Rough House and for Charity probably fulfill at least one of those measures — if not a whole slew of them — in his eyes. The financing of this venture is a tool whereby he can provide his niece with an opportunity to learn some of the lessons he’s already learned; I don’t think profit is his primary motive, here.
You know Leonard’s mind well, young padawan. 😉