Meta-Ween: Cursed Queries

What was his warning? I should have listened more closely. I can remember how he looked. Pale skin, like it hadn’t seen the light of day for a year. He had dark hair, scruff on his face, and blue tinted glasses he thought made it easier to stare at a screen all day. His t-shirt said something about a database movie and being excited about the SQL (sigh). I can remember all that so why can’t I remember his warning?  

We keep making the same mistakes. We invited vegetarians to a hot dog picnic because we searched for people that ordered “meat”, but forgot some of the notes indicate, “no meat.” We invited married families to a singles mixer because they live in a “single”-family home.  Ever since we setup this new system we’ve been cursed. 

Wait, that was it! He said if you don’t heed this warning, you’ll be cursed … now I remember! He said, “To get exactly what you want it helps to know exactly what you don’t want.” 

He was right… our incomplete planning was a curse.