After puzzling over the name of this blog and doing a search that came up with things like the name of a football team, a colleague confessed he didn’t understand where “Red Jacket Diaries” came from.
To me, this is a lesson in making assumptions in communications. Assuming you came into this blog from my home page, you would have seen the photo of me in a red jacket. Wrong assumption, because a direct link to the blog bypasses the photo. Assuming you have known me for a while, you would also know that I love the colour red and wear red as much as I possibly can, especially a red “power jacket” when prodded into the limelight. Again, wrong assumption, especially in a medium like a blog, where there could be a casual reader who doesn’t know me at all, or someone who has not seen me on a day when I have to present (thus requiring the red jacket). In fact, come to think of it, I’ve been wearing a lot of other colours lately.
So Oleg, thanks for the reminder to make no assumptions!
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Thank you Donna for being so understanding. Assumption is the operative word here. It is amazing to realize how much we assume in life, mostly because we believe that people act, behave and react like we do. I have seen you in Red but I have also seen in you in black; in fact my assumption was that black was your favourite colour.:-)
I’m confused. Why is Oleg discussing the colours that Donna wears in response to a blog about Sue’s red jacket? By the way, I feel pretty confident in my red jacket, as well. I’ve been told I look good in red (am I a “winter”?) and red is half of my corporate colours, the other being green, to suit Orchard House.
Gloria, must have been a slip of Oleg’s keys! You do look good in red so you may well be a winter.