Our economy is screwed up, big time.

I screwed up my courage and went there.

Tip Suggest you avoid calling. Lines are bound to be screwed.

Well, then you'd be screwed because you'd know what to wish for and you'd used up your wish.

But if that's it and that becomes the reason that renewables don't get invested in, then, long term, we're screwed anyway, right?

And perhaps also, there's a lesson about how to deal with our screwed up, fragmenting and dangerous world of the 21st century.

But most important is listening well enough to say, We re sorry in a convincing way. Not, We re sorry you didn t appreciate our wonderful service, but, We re sorry we screwed up and gave you a noisy room.

Then he came back and apologized to her and to me (in a weird screwed up way, but that's another story and yes, I did call the police, or try to but again, that's another story).

He was one of six people who were invited to participate in this competition, after six previous firms struck out with things that were so stupid and banal that even the city of New York was forced to go, Oh, I'm really sorry, we screwed up.