BOHICA!!!

In one of my past lives, I was a training consultant for an HR consulting firm. I was once leading a five-day workshop that trained the trainers from client companies on how to implement & train our products. A part of their tedious certification process was to present two different training simulations. During these simulations, my job was simply to observe and take detailed, copious notes of exact dialogue used and categorize it all into different behavioral dimensions.

During a presentation of one man, who had to be about ten years my senior, he used the term "BOHICA". (pronounced BOE HEE KAH) As I was trying to figure out how to spell it and what it meant before I wrote it down, another participant in the workshop asked him the same question running through my mind.

"BOHICA? You've never heard of it? Oh, we've all heard of it and experienced it!!!" he replied with some glee in his voice, "It's BOHICA = Bend Over Here It Comes Again. BOHICA." I immediately stopped my timer and put my head on my table while laughing so hard I was crying. I was not the only one in the room crying either - men and women alike! Yep - time for a break! It took us a while to collect ourselves and get back to work.

I've since adapted the term BOHICA into my semi-regular vocabulary and used it often - especially in stressful times or times when I know I'm being taken.

With that, here is today's BOHICA for me. See, we've all experienced it!

Damn gas & oil companies!