Maybe it's me . . . Missing the Boat
To "miss the boat" is to miss the point of or fail to understand: Several years ago I was working for an employment agency in Salt Lake City, Utah. The agency had sent me on a temporary assignment to state's Department of Family and Child Services (DCFS) - a department seemingly to be more dysfunctional than many of its clients. I was told the assignment would be for only a couple of months - but I was there for almost two years and off and on for almost the next five. As I recall, I made a suggestion of sending out letters to newly adoptive parents or potential adoptive parents - I can't remember the reason - but in my mind it seemed like it would be a start for whatever it was the department was trying to accomplish. I was asked to write the letter and send it to...