I recently received this line in an email from a friend:

> I shouldn’t even be writing now, but I’m frustrated by clients.

And that made me realize something.

Everyone is frustrated by clients. Clients are the bane of the business world because they’re such a bunch of annoying selfish bastard always taking and trying to screw you out of your services. There isn’t a business person on the planet that loves their clients.

And that could be why the mafia started in the first place. A way for honest and considerate business owners, trash haulers, proprietors of gambling establishments, and much needed brothels, didn’t have to listen to whiney clients anymore.

When a “client” knows you might just beat him to death with a baseball bat they tend to be a lot more polite and understanding about everyday business conundrums.

I wonder if the mafia business plan would work in the world of restauranteuring and filmmaking? I’m going to think about that while I’m driving northish next week. It’s definitely time for a change in my life.

Hot bitches like guys with power, right? I know I’ve got a lot of anger and I know, with absolute certainty like the way I know there is oxygen in the air right now, that “clients” could use a good talking to and that I sure would like to have a use for that crowbar I keep in my truck.

Yeah…this just might work. I wonder if the retired mobsters in my neighborhood in Tucson might engage in a mentoring program? I’ll have to think about approaching them when I get back. I’m sure they’re looking for a way to use their skills now that they’re in their golden years.

The Mafia Mentors will help kids along who can’t take the workaday world and need some career guidance.