Heartwarming Anecdote of the Day

[aggienaut]

   Today I was up in Merced, California, meeting a member of the ASUCM Supreme Court for coffee. There were a bunch of people milling around about where the line should be but most of them seemed to have already ordered and shortly they wandered off. The guy in front of me ordered and then there was me and this grouchy looking old guy standing there.
   "Were you here first?" I asked him, stepping back. He really looked sour, I was almost afraid to say anything to him, but I also am not about to cut off an old guy.
   Without really answering me he steps up to the register. "I'll have a a drip coffee, and whatever he wants" he said indicating at me. "Sometimes it pays to be polite" he said with a smile as he paid for my iced coffee.


Unrelated Picture of the Day

Picture from Epic Roadtrip 2007 I don't THINK I put up yet.
While this picture is from a sunrise in Wyoming, I did drive past similar windmills and a similar looking sunset today.

Comments

[wagrobanite.livejournal.com]

hi, I just wanted to comment. You added me as a friend, which is fine but my journal is friends only... so you won't be seeing much. Just an FYI...

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Ah. Hi. Yeah I found you on the friending frenzy at morning_stand, left you a comment there.

[wagrobanite.livejournal.com]

I don't mind people friending me, but I just let them know that if they don't comment on my friends only post, or ask before friending me, I generally don't friend back. Part of it has to do with I've had stalker issues (both online and in the real world) and also has to do with me being a private person. Plus, from looking at your profile, we have nothing in common...*shrugs* I think being friends with people I have at least one thing in common with.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

My listed interests was actually a joke. I guess I should change it. Interests we have in common looking at your list include anthropology, historical fiction, history and travel. I wrote a historical fiction entry a short time ago and have been resisting posting more entries about history as I'm unclear how interested my friends list is. I think there's a lot of really interesting stories in history that nearly no one knows about and ought to be told.

In fact I'm gonna change my listed interests right now, cause I can see how that might give a bad impression of me. I think you'll find my lj is a lot more than beer and burritos (though not nearly enough possums).

You by no means have to friend me back, I just saw you in the friending frenzy and a cursory investigation led me to believe you'd be interesting to get to know and we'd share some interests.

[wagrobanite.livejournal.com]

ohh ok... that was interesting! I'll go ahead and friend you back :)

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Thanks (=