I'm sure that most of you know that i am a pretty sarcastic/cynical person when i want to be. Well David is too. We often talk about how stupid something is that a random person is doing. (Examples to come) Well last night we were talking and decided that we wanted to work on being nicer. (I've been trying to be nicer to the students that come in to ask questions at work and it's been going pretty well so far so how hard can it be to be nicer to everyone?) We're nice to each other and our friends but when it comes to people we don't really know or care about we can be jerks. So we make our little resolution to start being nicer and curb the sarcasm/cynicism. We said goodnight and went to bed.
David came over to get me this morning and we headed up to campus. We drove because i have an appointment today in the middle of the day (getting the stitches out!!! yay!!!) Well we got on to campus and we driving our usual route looking for a parking spot. At one point there was a large truck (like some service vehicle) parked halfway in our lane and halfway on the side walk. Our instant reaction was "Thanks idiot! What kind of a retard parks halfway in the street when there are parking spots reserved especially for him?!" We continued driving, looking for a spot, usually these are hard to come by. I saw one in the parking lot for my building, i was so pumped, right then someone pulled in to it. My reaction: "I hate you! Who are you so that i can hate you and make your life miserable (i schedule classes so actually do have a little power in that department, wouldn't actually try to make someones life miserable but still)." We continued on and got a decent parking spot. David was walking me to my office before he headed to class. There was a dump truck picking up the trash. He had to back partway into the street so that the dumpster wouldn't hit the tree above him. Well some other truck driving down the street honked at him and David and my reaction was "Shut up! The guy's just doing his job. What kind of a jerk are you?!"
At this point we both remembered our resolution. I said "We're not doing too good at being nicer are we? We've been together this morning for 10 minutes and we've already cursed 3 people." Apparently this will take more work than we thought. Good story though right?
4 comments:
Working where you do, doing what you do, doesn't help either. It is just too easy!
Good goal to work on. Sometimes it's hard to remember that other people are just people that are having problems and just as likely to be having a bad day as you are.
once you break the habit of thinking people are stupid when they do those kinds of things, you won't feel like you're working with stupid people all the time, but you'll be glad that you could help them with something that they very obviously couldn't do themselves. I certainly worked with some people who could be thought of as stupid, but I tried to just remember that they probably knew much much more about real estate or whatever their business was than I did and that some time I could be calling them for help in their specialty :)
I think it's okay to curse utah drivers. . come on!! it's Utah drivers.
I got honked at 2x today for signaling and then moving in a lane where there was enough room for my car. . but the guy's car bubble was too big.
But being a more positive person is good - less cynical is good too.
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