Sam Kidd's thoughts on business

We are still trying hard to find a location for Sam&Dan's at the moment. We are talking to a few people about certain locations in Cork City. Unfortunately it’s just taking more time than we would like.
It's been a very painful few months, filled with so many ups and downs.  We had a massive bidding war to get the property that we wanted.  This was a really stressful time, and went on for bloody ages. It was so hard having to wait for days, and sometimes a week to hear if you were going to be out bid. Never knowing what’s going on was so frustrating, it's like your life is on hold. painful!

Anyway after a month came the big high, we won the bidding war and finally got the property. After all that bidding I was think ‘great now lets get moving’. Yea right! Now we had to stall as the waiting for legals with the lease began.
This is the part that really gets me. I don't understand why solicitors don't just say, “Hey lets get all parties into a room together and knock this about for an hour”. This going back and forth while each solicitor writes love letters to each other does my bloody head in. 
Ok I know why the solicitors don’t want to do this, but I don't understand why people don’t just say screw this for a laugh, lets get the business under way, or kill it now, and save some time and money. Lets meet up and talk face to face like real people. The only people who do well out of this love letter set up is the solicitors with their 'lovely' fees. 

I think a story I heard about a while ago from New Zealand summed out how I feel about this whole drawn out process.

A Mobile radio network operator TeamTalk is trialling a new technique for dispute resolution.
The Wellington based telco (19.9% owned by Telecom NZ) has been in dispute with MCS
Digital RT Ltd over access to their networks but there won't be any lawyers and protracted
legal proceedings in this argument. TeamTalk has challenged MCS Digital RT Ltd to settle
this with an arm wrestling contest.

 

"We can battle on and on and the only winners will be lawyers. This way we can have some fun and get on with doing business" says Mr Ware. You can read the full story here.

 I can't believe the bloody French have knocked the All Blacks out the Rugby World cup again.

Also to all the smart people who sent me text messages, thanks alot for them they really helped cheers me up.....NOT....You are now all crossed off my Christmas card list.

I would say the South African team are over the moon. Australia and New Zealand both knocked out. They could not have hoped for more.