“Be Nice!” I Said to Myself
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Boy that is sometimes easier said than done. Have you ever got so uppity at someone only to find out later you were wrong? It’s a bad feeling let me tell you. Kind of like when your baby has a really bad diaper and for the life of you you can’t remember where your wife put the wipes. Tonight I waited on the phone for the longest time with the bank thinking I had an unapproved transaction on my statement for $15. After going through it with three people on the fraud line, I realized the mistake was mine … wow.
I think I’d like to be the nice person for a change. Do you think people say that about you? We all get frustrated and we all have issues. Come on, let’s face it … we ALL do. Instead of bumming the world out about it, how about we decide to be a nice voice on the phone, a nice face passing on the street, or a nice “voice” of writing on internet comments. This world is so screwed up and there is more pain around you than you could imagine. Let’s focus on that “be nice” energy point and see where it gets us. Are you game?
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I'm Damien Riley, author and teacher. Here you'll find "think outside the box" posts on psychology and inspiration. 
Yes, I do think people say that I’m nice. Sometimes too nice.
Was the bank issue a debit card use that you forgot to record? My daughter came home last month and said “I have no money in my bank account and there’s all these charges to my debit card that I didn’t do!”…we, too, spent a long time on the phone only to have her realize that she did make the charges. UGH.
God lesson learned. Now she records every transaction like I told her to do in the first place LOL
OK, nice posts..here we go! I’ve been trying to fool around with some ideas for your contest, too!
Jessica The Rock Chicks last blog post..License To Drive
Yesterday we went to get tires on our car. We wanted 2 tires and that was all. We get there…and they charge us $90 for an alignment we never asked for. And driving down the road we hear this awful rattling that wasn’t there before…
So we go back, prepared to fight these guys…and we actually were able to do it amicably and walk out of there happily…I couldn’t believe it! It’s hard to always be nice…but it’s amazing when it works out!
Chelles last blog post..Mother Teresa on Love…
@JTRC: I felt humiliated. I have been to McDonalds twice in the past month. One time, the cashier rang in a cookie after the fact that showed up at $1.05. Then the third time I went appeared to be a double charge (ie; 16.75 + the cookie charge). I assumed — you know it makes an ass of u and me always, that she double charged me but my wife reminded me I had another charge from another day … I just shouldn’t have gotten so uppity … hence the nice post. Thanks for your great input.
@Chelle: How funny, we just had tires put on Sarah’s minivan last night. Went smoothly. I hope you get that wobble worked out!