10/80/10

actually nice people/people that can be swayed/insufferable pricks

I am actually a nice person. I don't know if that comes across here. It's very hard to dislike me.

i know this will surprise some of you, but same here.

I am as polite as possible to strangers.

I desperately want people to like me, even if I will never see them again.

My standard tip in restaurants is 25%.

I assume the best in most people I meet. I am easily duped because of this.

I treat telephone support people tenderly, diplomatically, and with some humor, as if being nice will motivate them to solve my problems.

I apologize to hairdressers for being overly quiet.

When in line at a market, I will flip products around so the UPC code is visible and the counter person can scan them without doing any work.

Me too, except a) I have a hard time trusting strangers, and b) I cut my own hair. The rest, spot on.

actually, this ratio should be applied to buyers.

10% of people that sit down in my office will buy whatever I want them to.

80% depend on how you treat them and whether they perceive value in what I'm offering

10% resent you're even asking them to consider additional protection

I apologize to hairdressers for being overly quiet.

Thats so cute. They actually probably appreciate the silence.

When in line at a market, I will flip products around so the UPC code is visible and the counter person can scan them without doing any work.

I take the hangers off the clothes before they scan them.

but how do you act when you're in your car?

Undertoad wrote:

When in line at a market, I will flip products around so the UPC code is visible and the counter person can scan them without doing any work.

I do this, and I also group things on the conveyer belt the way they will want to bag them, with all the cans together, and all the hygiene products together, and the cold stuff together, etc. But really, it's selfish--I just want to get out of there faster.

if it is at all possible, i insist on bagging my own groceries.

lumberjim;568212 wrote:

but how do you act when you're in your car?

Unfortunately, about 92% of people in the Philadelphia area act like fucking assholes in their cars. About 3% of those people feel bad when they do, but do it anyway. Exactly 1% of people in cars notice when pedestrians push the cross signal button, and allow them to cross when they have the light. And a surprisingly low 7% of dickwads in cars yell at pedestrians while they are crossing the intersection during a red walk sign.

bluecuracao;568280 wrote:

About 3% of those people feel bad when they do . . . .

It's not that high.

lumberjim;568176 wrote:

10% resent you're even asking them to consider additional protection

I guess this would be me. I know it's all padding; what else is there to say?

Pie;568437 wrote:

I guess this would be me. I know it's all padding; what else is there to say?

it can be.....but if you know what protection makes sense for you, it can save your ass.

i pushed a guy into buying GAP insurance. he totalled his van. it was worth 17500......he owed 32500. he saw the value in what i had sold him.

I say, I can afford to eat the difference myself. Since the insurance company is making money off the transaction, I'll just keep that for myself. I won't buy it unless I can pay cash anyways.

you can afford to pay 15,000 bux if you total your van? instead of $12 per month in your loan?

She has no loan.

thats why i said

it can be.....but if you know what protection makes sense for you, it can save your ass.

bluecuracao;568280 wrote:

Exactly 1% of people in cars notice when pedestrians push the cross signal button, and allow them to cross when they have the light. And a surprisingly low 7% of dickwads in cars yell at pedestrians while they are crossing the intersection during a red walk sign.

I was behind one such persons the other day. I was making a left but had to wait for someone to push their bike through. The girl behind me laid on her horn and gestured while yelling for me to go. I am sure she didn't see him due to the sun being in her eyes yet I saw him.

I was quite shaken and I hope she felt stooopid once I was able to go and she could see. I thought she was going to get out of her car and slap me. lol

lumberjim;568151 wrote:

actually nice people/people that can be swayed/insufferable pricks

Anyway are the insufferable pricks the ones with the most money? If so I need lessons in insufferable prickishness.

I think the causation might run the other way.

Then again, maybe not.