If you are like me, sometime in your life you’ve experienced a sense of satisfaction just by being right. But not just being right, being RIGHT when it mattered. I told you the show started as 7:30, not at 8. Good thing we got here when I suggested. There have even been situations when I’ve given myself permission to gloat over my rightness, although not for more than six or eight seconds, which I carefully count out loud. (No need to be a showoff.) We were saying our good-byes to The Levines Fri. morning at 10:30, right on schedule. With a good deal of help from the two Barbaras, we had pulled it off splendidly, just the way we said it would work out.

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Executive decision A choice made by one individual when it would have been difficult for all other affected parties to meet and arrive at a consensus, such choice, once made, being willingly accepted by everyone involved

            (from the Casden American Dictionary)

Here’s an example of what I mean:

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