Mic check turned into a town hall

During yesterday’s waterfront ribbon-cut run-through, the sound test morphed into a full-blown Q&A when a vendor, two neighbors, and a council aide started debating traffic — at 8:02 a.m., with the coffee still en route. What’s your funniest early-arriving stakeholder moment, and how did you steer it without turning facilitation into a contact sport?

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