In the context of electioneering it was a last-minute decision over donuts that launched local government aspirant Lynlee Aitcheson Johnson into a twin-edged tilt at the local body elections.
Having appeared on ballot papers as Lynlee Aitcheson in three Hawke's Bay District Health Board polls, she always intended giving it another go after coming close in the last election in 2013.
But it was only a chat with family "over donuts" across the road from work on August 11, barely 24 hours before names had to be in, that the recently married Mrs Aitcheson-Johnson answered the call to stand in the Hastings District Council's Flaxmere Ward, which until then looked like incumbents Henare O'Keefe and Jacoby Poulain would be unopposed.
The whanau reckoned Flaxmere needed to have an election and there was some need for "another voice", and, besides, someone was prepared to pay the nomination fee.
She became one of four who are seeking district council and health board election across Hawke's Bay - along with Ms Poulain and two Wairoa District Council candidates.