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#181785
We hear all the time that a simple "hey" to a stranger or holding the door for them can make their day. Has anyone had someone random do something that cheered you up or made you genuinely smile (and not for doing something dumb)?


I was checking out at Wal-Mart and the guy at the register was an older guy who sounded Asian. The way he went about his job and talked to me somehow rubbed off on me and I was in a better mood when I left.


Yea, not our normal topic on here, but hey, it's good to change things up.
By TylerBakersGonnaBGreat
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#181787
I had a stripper only charge me half price once... It made me smile and in a better mood for a week.
#181806
SuperJon wrote:We hear all the time that a simple "hey" to a stranger or holding the door for them can make their day. Has anyone had someone random do something that cheered you up or made you genuinely smile (and not for doing something dumb)?


I was checking out at Wal-Mart and the guy at the register was an older guy who sounded Asian. The way he went about his job and talked to me somehow rubbed off on me and I was in a better mood when I left.


Yea, not our normal topic on here, but hey, it's good to change things up.
THAT GUY is awesome. Always singing or something. I always look for him to check out...he's also FAST.
Last edited by Fumblerooskies on June 18th, 2008, 8:12 pm, edited 1 time in total.
By SuperJon
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#181807
I'm assuming you mean singing. Yes, he was doing that. He was awesome.
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By AZjonz
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#181808
TylerBakersGonnaBGreat wrote:I had a stripper only charge me half price once... It made me smile and in a better mood for a week.
Half-priced stripper, huh?
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By whmatthews
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#181840
That guy is Mr. Gil. He has his own facebook group - He's an immigrant from China... awesome guy.
By thepostman
#181852
i have always heard of this guy, but never actually gone through his line...but everyone always says the nicest things about him
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By JDUB
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i've never seen that guy, but the lady i went to today did not cheer me up. she made the express line slower than the regular one cause she was a cork on the fork. she had no idea what she was doing
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By mrmacphisto
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#181873
When I was in probably 6th or 7th grade, I had a college girl tell me I had a nice smile.

Similarly, when I was outside a venue after a concert recently, a really nice girl from Ohio told me I had nice teeth.

Which is odd, since I'm not a real smiley type of guy.

At another concert a few years ago, I had a random slightly-inebriated college girl tell me to let her know if I wanted to mess around after the show.

I appreciated the offer but didn't take her up on it.
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By Cider Jim
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#181885
"I've always depended upon the kindness of strangers" (Blanche DuBois in Tenneessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire).
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By TDDance234
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#181889
Mr. Gil is probably the happiest little man you'll ever meet. He goes about his job at Wal-Mart with more joy than I do around my office (in a church, for that matter). We used to go in to Wal-Mart late at night just to go through his line.
By blwall1416
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#181974
Mr. Gil rules. The beacon of light in the dungeon know as Wal-Mart.
By Hold My Own
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#181977
I've had the stranger cheer me up before....
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By mrmacphisto
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#181987
Hold My Own wrote:I've had the stranger cheer me up before....
The Billy Joel album?
By Hold My Own
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#181988
no but that may have been playing at the same time
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By JDUB
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#181995
go ahead and get tested if you haven't already
By Hold My Own
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#181998
You cant catch anything from the stranger
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By RubberMallet
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#182001
this one is bad but i guess it fits...when i was a freshman in highschool i went to a cubs game and sat in the bleachers for the first time. i sat on my new sunglasses and broke them and had pop spilled on me and the cubs got murdered....bad day right?...well when the game was over, the lady in front of me was hot..super hot....she turned around and bent over to pick up all their stuff, i could see right down her shirt and could see her boobs, like all of her boobs...she was picking up things for like 15 seconds and i was mesmorized....it certainly cheered up my day.

my wife will kill me for telling that story...
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By RubberMallet
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#182002
Hold My Own wrote:You cant catch anything from the stranger
don't worry, i know exactly what you are talking about.
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By JDUB
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#182004
i must not have seen that one
By LUconn
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#182006
There's a reference to it in Gone in 60 seconds. I don't know if that's where it originated from.
By Hold My Own
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#182007
RubberMallet wrote:
Hold My Own wrote:You cant catch anything from the stranger
don't worry, i know exactly what you are talking about.

HAHAHA...now if that comes out on Wii I'm really going to worry
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By adam42381
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#182015
Hold My Own wrote:I've had the stranger cheer me up before....
Don't you get bored just sitting on your hand all day?
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