> 'hello how are you' in that bored I don't give a f#$%$%%^^$
> about you really tone

Within a km of my suburbian home is just about every outlet I need
to do all my fixin's and whatnot. The suburb is part-commercial,
part-retail and I rarely have to stray far

So I run across the same assistants on a regular basis and like to
make friends. Plus, in my spirit of "Random Acts Of Kindness" I
try to brighten anyone's day at what must often be an I-stayed-at-
school-for-this-? occupation

Unless you are of a certain disposition, it must be tiring and simply
rote to be cheerful to dopey customers all day every day.
Occassionally you come across someone who puts the funk back in
perfunctory

As an example of what > said, I was at the local hardware store's
check-out a few minutes before closing. The young lady, who I know
has a sense of humour, leant into the store PA and said in a 5:30-I-
wanna-go-home voice "Attention customers, the store will be closing
shortly. Thank you for shopping at Mitre 10"

"Ah, you can feel the love-warmth from here" I said to her

She smiled. She knows

Russell & co from NZ might know of a hit-and-run in Matakana
recently. The victim's husband is a very old friend. We emigrated
to NZ together in 1972. So I was visiting her in Ak Hospital
yesterday in the neuro ward and noticed how cheerful her corner
was. Cards, photos and stuffed toys everywhere (she'll be there
for a while in a halo). Also many bright happy helium ballons with
Get Well etc messages. I remarked that there could be a market
for balloons for people you don't like. "No Hurry" "Take Your
Time" "Serves You Right" etc. Other visitors were there with their
gloomy "Oh My God dear"'s. Which is appropriate, but she
probably gets and will get plenty of that over the next few months.
She did get a laugh out through her tracheotomy tube, so stuff
the relatives

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