Hmmmmm.....
"Wow that's a lot."
'Wow, that's some list of cancellations!'
'Dang, that's one big list."
"WOW that's looks like a lot."
"It’s the end of the line folks? Holy Schmoly Batman! That is a wake up call! Even the much vaunted European market with supposedly great selling trains got the axe."
"A rather disturbingly lengthy list, to be sure!"
etc., etc., etc.
![the sky is falling the sky is falling](https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/fileSendAction/fcType/0/fcOid/35076990538243072/filePointer/35076991150488274/fodoid/35076991150488270/imageType/MEDIUM/inlineImage/true/the%2520sky%2520is%2520falling.jpg)
Sooooooo..... Not having much else to do for the past 15 minutes, I grabbed my MTH 2014 Volume 2 cattlehog, sat down with an ice cold libation, turned to the pages featuring products beginning with 20- and/or 22-......and began counting.
Lessee.....the cancellations list had a total of 26 numbers in the 20- and 22- category.
The 2014 Volume 2 cattlehog lists a total of 474 numbers in the same category between pages 69 and 160.
Doing the math, we find that this works out to a cancellation percentage of...
(drum roll, please)
5.48523206751055%![](https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/static/images/graemlins/icon_rolleyes.gif)
OR....looking at it from the other direction, they're planning on fulfilling orders for...
94.51476793248945% of their cattlehogged items.![](https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/static/images/graemlins/icon_thumbsup.gif)
Either way, I'd say MTH is doing quite well....considering the uncertainties of the local, state, and national economies, stagnant incomes, anemic job growth, an industry dependent on disposable (
) income, a broad product mix targeting uncertain regional acceptance, a continued high rate of labor turnover in China, multiple levels of independent, international participants in the entire 'dust-to-delivery' scheme of getting product into the hands of customers worldwide, rough seas and earthquakes, labor unrest, .....blah, blah, blah.
But, then, that's just MHO.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch...
KD