(10-01-2019, 06:20 PM)Jags Wrote: Clients that email and tell me to “do this” or “that” on the next visit.  

1. You don’t pay in your monthly price for that. It’s not free.  Would you like a quote??
2. Screw my schedule, whatever you need Mr “xxxx”.  I can quote and schedule it, if you’d like.
3. Who the [BLEEP] do you think you are? I’m not sure you realize it or not, but I actually live in your neighborhood.  You’re not better than me. Don’t treat me or my crew otherwise,

It’s not he work I have an issue with, but being nice to people is getting harder and harder each year.  

It feels s nice not having to be professional on his board.

Things like these are precisely why I make it a point to close out every interaction with a service worker with a 'Thank you.' I am either not smart enough or too lazy to do the thing they help with, so yes, thank you for helping me to get the thing done. Modeling humility and appreciation is something I hope the kids are paying attention to, but I'm talking, so I'm sure they're not.  

We've even got them in the habit of thanking ride attendants when we go to amusement parks after a ride. For a lot of those workers, it's the first time someone isn't complaining to them about lines, the heat, or how tight their lap bar was.

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(10-01-2019, 09:25 PM)PF* Wrote: This reminded me of my last swing with an ax. I had been splitting wood for a while and was tired. I hit a log with a glancing blow instead of in the center and the ax went down and buried its head in the soft ground about 3 inches from my right foot.

I looked at that for about a minute, then walked away. I left it in the ground for about 2 weeks as a reminder and never swung one again.

I became a Jags fan at about the same time as the locker room Axgate incident and just shook my head. What was JDR thinking?

"These are a locker room full of burly, manly men who welcome the sweat on the brow after a hard day's work. Swinging an axe will be old hat to---oh farts, that's the punter with the axe! no, don't! ....aw, dang, I ain't gonna live this down any time soon, am I?"

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