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Pastimes : Say Something Nice About Someone -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (70)	3/3/2002 11:30:46 AM
From: coug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 207

Hi X, I would like to say something nice about Bobby Muller, currently on CNN a proponent of banning Land Mines. He is president of the Vietnam Veterans of America.. c

To: epicure who wrote (70)	3/3/2002 11:50:57 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 207

I'm not sure this exactly qualifies as Say Something Nice but I had the nicest weekend filled with nice things. This weekend, I flew to LA to see my son in a play (he was very good, that was nice, too). It was an in and out trip, one night-- but I met an inordinate amount of very nice people on it- including two Armenian taxidrivers, who told me about their families, their lives, their dreams, and one who actually almost hugged me at the airport, and a couple of nice much older men on the plane who treated me as if I were jailbait, which was EXTREMELY nice, and then a woman whom I will now tell you about becuase it is a morality tale and I want to do more than just say she was nice. The flights were all messed up from the storm that the midwest was getting, even Dallas had ice and sleet, and so there were a lot of delays. The airport lounge was filled, every seat taken. I noticed a woman sitting with her leg up on a second seat, reading a paper, and frowning. Of course, I thought, "She has her nerve, taking two seats when there are people standing and sitting on the floor". As a flight was boarding a seat near her opened up and I sat down. She looked up and asked,"what flight are you waiting for?" I said the next Dallas flight, and she said she was going through Dallas,too, but her flight was the one after that which had been delayed four hours already. I said that was too bad, had she checked into the earlier flights, and she said she had asked but they said they couldn't, and that she thought they could have, but they were so very busy and harried. Now this is an exceptional attitude to take anyway, but as we talked I learned that she was trying to get to Arkansas to her elderly mother. Her brother had been flying a small plane last week and it went down in a storm. She (the woman) had just had knee surgery-- an entire replacement- and the airline had met her with a wheelchair when she flew in earlier in the morning to LA and she couldn't really move-- So much for my "selfish bitch taking two seats" theory. As we talked, and she teared up some about brother, she said quickly, "I have a wonderful life. I don't mean to sound as if I think life is being unfair to me. It's just been a hard month." Well, YEAH. Then she asked about me and even listened with interest. This woman who had to be in pain, and who had lost her brother just days before, and was worried about her poor mother and was stuck in airports for who knew how long. We look at people and we see actions and expressions that we interpret as hostile, or angry, or insulting, when they are really expressions of pain, or sadness, or fear. This woman reminded me to be careful of the quick superficial judgment- which in this case sadly said more about me than her. Because this was a really NICE woman. There- with that sentence I even managed to meet the Header requirement.