Back from Puerto Rico with Personality intact

I had forgotten how easy it is for me to get lost in training sessions/seminars. So often there are participants who are either knows-it-all (plural of the know-it-all noun) who want to take up time and flap their jowl about how perfectly they run things. And then everyone clamors for his/its/their/her business card. I tend to run in the opposite direction as I have limited patience for people who are unfamiliar with the trait of humility.
Then there are the hand-raisers with a burning question that must be answered in the very moment lest their innards explode and become outards in the classroom. And when they are finally called upon, they begin with a slow and unnecessary preamble that leads into a specific question about a particular event that occurred to them that may or may not have anything to do with the matter at hand. Case in point was a union representative who helped an employee who was not a member of the union. (In our union, if you are not part of the bargaining unit, you cannot be represented). Well, she dug herself deep and nobody wanted to hear about.
"Yes, honey-lamb, you were as wrong as wrong could be."
What should she have done? Turned the person away. I turn people away all the time.
But, the training was on the island of Puerto Rico in the city of San Juan. Not too shabby. I'm not much of a beach or water person, but I do like having a room with a view of the bay. And my balcony faced east. Since I am relatively early riser (0500), I got to see the sun come up.