Christy's The Customer Graduation Story

For our The Customer Graduation ceremony yesterday, Marla asked us each to give a brief presentation in which we would share with the group what valuable lessons we personally learned from the course.

I had a little blurb planned - until Susan L. shared her presentation with me! Hers was going to be great! Inspired by her creativity - I climbed out of my box & here's what I came up with:

Farmer Brown's Fuzzy Bunnies

Once upon a time in the land of Cee Cee there lived a bunch of fuzzy bunnies.

Each bunny lived in its own little burrow underneath Farmer Brown’s field.

In general the bunnies lead happy, productive lives. Each would come up out of their burrow and help themselves to Farmer Brown’s produce, always leaving enough behind for the other bunnies and trying not to destroy the field so that Farmer Brown could keep planting yummy carrots for them each year, though they sometimes weren’t as careful as they could have been.

Occasionally the bunnies would pass each other as they wandered from burrow to field and back. The bunnies would twitch their noses at each other politely and even more occasionally one would help the other dig up a particularly stubborn carrot.

But for the most part each bunny went from their burrow to the field and back in their own little bunny way.

They thought life was good.

Then one day a wild hare named Marla came bounding (as only a wild hare can bound!) into Farmer Brown’s field – skidded to a halt and shouted “You silly bunnies aren’t living up to your full, fuzzy potential!”

The bunnies stopped – some mid carrot – and stared at her. Then they stared at each other. One or two stared ate the sky hoping for rain and a reason to escape this wild hare and her speechifying.

But the wild hare won them over with her wild, winning ways!

Soon she’d taught them that if they worked together they would truly see what a happy, productive life could be!

She started by having the bunnies build tunnels between each of their individual burrows, then they built a large burrow in the center of all the little burrows where they could store all the extra carrots they were gathering by working in new streamlined “Carrot Cultivation Teams”.

Further, the bunnies then started working with the other animals in and around Farmer Brown’s field – the goats butted in and made sure the field was never over harvested and the soil not destroyed. The birds gathered seeds and re-planted in neat little rows as only birds can, and the beavers from the stream that ran beside the field set up a produce stand on the side of the road.

Farmer Brown never questioned how or why his farm suddenly became self sufficient, he simply spent the rest of his happy days relaxing at the fishing hole.

Never one to rest, Marla the wild hare headed off into the next field over…there were some gophers there in sore need of a helping paw!

~Christy