Be Nice

"If somebody gets in your face and calls you a cocksucker, I want you to be nice. Ask him to walk. Be nice. If he won't walk, walk him. But be nice. If you can't walk him, one of the others will help you, and you'll both be nice. I want you to remember that it's a job. It's nothing personal. I want you to be nice until it's time to not be nice."


Every time I hear the phrase "be nice," or say the same to one of my players, I hear Patrick Swayze saying it over and over in the above quite from the movie Road House.


It is funny because yesterday at the back I tried to hold the door for a gentlemen that had ridden up on his bike at roughly the same time and he shook me off and looked at me like I had done something wrong.  The last time I flew I helped a short, older woman with her bags and the young woman sitting in my row acted as if I had just saved a life.


Imagine what this planet would be like if everyone on it did just one "nice" thing for someone else every single day.  Now imagine what this planet would be like if everyone did everything nice they could for everyone they came across during the course of the day.


I am not talking about anything difficult, I am talking about opening doors, picking something up for someone that they have dropped, or here is a big one, say excuse me when you walk in front of someone that is conversing with someone else in public.  There are a number of little things, call it manners, call it being polite, call it upbringing, that we all could do during the course of the day that used to be common place and need to be again if we are going to save our country and our planet!!