McKnight's June 18, 2025
When attending a dinner last spring with colleagues, I knew it was going to be a long night. A nice restaurant. Cloth napkins. Too many forks to choose from. Formal, structured and just the kind of place where you expect everything to go according to script.
Then came a moment of unexpected brilliance.
A colleague, let’s call him Stu, put down the menu, looked up at the waiter, and said, “See if they can make us some onion rings. That would be a nice addition to the menu.”
The waiter hesitated. “But sir… we don’t have onion rings.”
Unbothered, Stu simply smiled. “Just ask. They...







