You mean, you think the natural reaction to having a self-important 75-year-old with no experience in the building trades costing me fifty thousand dollars in revenue needlessly should be, what? Outrage? Oh yeah. But here's the thing. You learn, after you've been through this clusterfuck, that pretty much everyone else has to get through this clusterfuck in order to compete with you. And if they don't, it means competition can spring up from anywhere. There are only like 12 birth centers in the entire state of Washington. And granted - the other 11 didn't have to deal with nearly this much bullshit. And granted - the ones that follow probably won't either. But they'll have to deal with a portion of it. I mean - it's been a fucking year since we signed the lease. More. It's been more than a fucking year since we demo'd the old space. And maybe, just maybe, we'll have furniture in there before the end of the year. But the whole fucking reason we started down this road is one of my wife's best friends went from "I think I should open a birth center" to grand opening in less than six weeks down in California. And now she's got a competitor a quarter mile down the street. Sending basket-case transports to the local hospital. Turning the EMTs against midwives in the whole community. Getting angry letters to the local paper written. One of the reasons we came up to Seattle is down where we lived, we were a 15-minute drive (without traffic) from eight birth centers. Five have since closed. Know why there are so many food trucks in LA? Because there are no barriers to starting a food truck in LA. Know why everyone in LA loses their shit over every new restaurant? Because turning one restaurant into another restaurant takes between 18 and 24 months, assuming everything goes off without a hitch. Commercial real estate in Venice, CA runs $120-$240 per square foot per year, triple net. A decent restaurant is 2000sqft minimum. And you're going to suck down 2 years of that before you get to start making any money back. You aren't opening a restaurant unless you mean it. And now you know why that burger costs $18.