Watching people for fun and profit

"our actions bespeak who we are"

This morning I was standing in a long line at a retail store. As I was waiting to pay for my purchase I noticed a very attractive girl in the next line. The only way I can describe her was HOT! This girl had been blessed with every physical attribute. She had the whole package and she knew it.

The strange thing was that she seemed so unhappy. Her impatience with the slowness of the clerk showed in the litte sighs and shifting in her posture. The little dirty looks she gave any men who dared admire her and the total disdain everyone around her had a way of diminishing her attractiveness to me.

I started thinking to myself how could someone who had been so blessed in the gene pool, be so unhappy. Now in fairness, I don't if something was going on in her life to make her so miserable but she seemed to me to be looking down her nose on everyone within her sight. When she reached the front of the line she started snipping at the clerk to hurry up.

The more she carried on like she was royalty and everyone around her were her peons, the more her attractiveness faded away. The mirage melted away and she stood before me as a totally unappealing member of the opposite sex. She went from a 10 to a zero in seconds.

She reminded me of clients I've had in the past whose head's could barely fit through a door. Their egos were as they say, as big as all outdoors. I liked them! The reason I liked them is that they were the easiest to sell. Just fan that big ego and you could lead them to sale most every time.

By way of contrast, those clients that I've met and found likeable elcit a different approach from me. I never think in terms of selling them anything. Because of my fondness for them, I think only in terms of how I can help them achieve their desires. I want to be of service to them!

As Gracie (commentor on last article) said...would we want to be our own friend? We should try and see ourselves how others see us. I'm sure we would be nicer for it.

Smile, if we can't be handsome we can be likeable!

P.S. That pretty young girl you see in the picture above is not the cranky girl I was talking about. It's actually Miriam, a sweet, funny and loveable friend who makes a great model.