How To Win Friends and Influence People
Confidence is everything.
This morning, as six or seven of us trooped back across the parking lot from our extended morning break at the campus cafeteria, we passed an energetic man who gestured to us and called out, "Hey - look at that! I've been wondering where all our soda's going!"
He pointed to a woman across the parking lot who was unloading a couple of crates of bottled water from the back of her car.
Looking at this incident, on the surface, it makes no sense, right? None of us recognized this guy. Besides, all our sodas are sold out of vending machines. And this woman was unloading, not loading, bottled water, not soda.
But such was his air of conviction that all of us smiled back at him and laughed knowingly in acknowledgement when he called out to us; walked past, and carefully waited until we were well out of earshot before exchanging puzzled looks and saying "...Who the hell was that?!?!" to each other.
We should've kicked his ass.
posted by Beth @ 7:27 PM
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2 Comments:
It all goes to show you, if you dress the part, speak the part, you can fit in anywhere...
Wear a tie to a hospital, walk around anywhere you want, looking like you know where you are going... I give it 8 out of 10 that you make it anywhere you want, except sterile areas...
haha...I agree! I always say that if you show enough enthusiasm and play the part, like fistandantalus mentioned, doors will be opened that you always thought were locked.
By the way, perhaps the mystery man was Rick G.? *ba da ba ching*
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