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What if.......?

By Buddy Kain

Real Estate Broker/Owner with ChangingStreets.com

April 29, 2008 07:09 AM

What if everyone said please and thank you?

What if everyone said hello with a smile on their face?

What if everyone spent five minutes of their day to do something totally unexpected for a stranger?

What if everyone used their blinker? What if everyone let the person in front of them merge?

What if in a construction zone everybody exited the "lane that ends" at the same time and traffic actually flows?

What if everyone thought of the reactions to their actions?

What if everyone spent 15 minutes every day listening to someone smarter than them?

What if for just one day everyone thought of others before themselves?

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Doreen McPherson

Homesmart ~ Scottsdale ~ Tempe - Tempe, AZ

Phoenix Arizona Real Estate ~

This world would be a very different place, wouldn't it?

Apr 29, 2008 07:13 AM

Jeffrey DiMuria 321.223.6253 Waves Realty

Waves Realty - Melbourne, FL

Florida Space Coast Homes

nice thoughts....you post was a good read...maybe everyone will read it!

Apr 29, 2008 07:14 AM

Yvette Smith

LONG & FOSTER - Williamsburg, VA

Realtor In Williamsburg VA, Homes for Sale

What a wonderful world it would be!

Yvette Smith

Williamsburg's Preferred Realtor!

Apr 29, 2008 07:18 AM

Rosalinda Morgan

Brookville, NY

"The Rose Lady"

We will not have the problems we are facing now.

Apr 29, 2008 07:21 AM

Michael Shankman

Award Realty - Las Vegas, NV

Selling Las Vegas 702-498-3383

enjoyed your post...maybe I will try to do more of those things.

Apr 29, 2008 07:32 AM

Terry Haugen STAGE it RIGHT! 321-956-2495

Stage it Right! - Melbourne, FL

Buddy, I used to live in that world. I keep wondering what happened to it! I still say "excuse me" if I pass in front of someone at the store. They all look at me like I'm cracked! I miss the old world )-:

Apr 29, 2008 02:45 PM

Simon Conway

Orlando Area Real Estate Services - Orlando, FL

Buddy - that world largely exists - you just need to open your eyes a bit wider and spend a little more time watching and you will see it right before your very eyes.

Apr 29, 2008 03:14 PM

Hugh Krone

Weichert Referral Associates - Hamburg, NJ

Realtor, Sussex County NJ

Can't say there is anything on that list that i don't follow. I like to think of it as Christianity

Apr 29, 2008 03:20 PM

Terry Haugen STAGE it RIGHT! 321-956-2495

Stage it Right! - Melbourne, FL

I like to think of it as common civility. I can't tell you how many times I've been cut off in traffic by an angry driver who had those "fish" on the back of their car. So much for being christian.

Apr 30, 2008 01:59 PM

Hugh Krone

Weichert Referral Associates - Hamburg, NJ

Realtor, Sussex County NJ

When people cut me off i don't look at what they are driving or whats on their car I just give them a quick God Bless you and get on with my day. Try it its alot better than anger.

Apr 30, 2008 02:19 PM

Terry Haugen STAGE it RIGHT! 321-956-2495

Stage it Right! - Melbourne, FL

Oh Hugh I'm not angry. You mis-read my comment. The drivers with the fish on their cars are the angry aggressive ones. Seems the more fish they have on the car the more aggressive they are.

May 01, 2008 02:22 AM

Kevin Robinson

Twin Falls, ID

Fractional Developer

May God Bless you Terry.

May 01, 2008 03:38 AM

Hugh Krone

Weichert Referral Associates - Hamburg, NJ

Realtor, Sussex County NJ

I have a fish and I don,t cut people off or even speed , there is no place i have to get to that bad.

May 01, 2008 08:04 AM

Terry Haugen STAGE it RIGHT! 321-956-2495

Stage it Right! - Melbourne, FL

Kevin, I'd extend the same sentiment to you, but well, lets just say, my beliefs are elsewhere.

Hugh, you then are one of the few!

May 01, 2008 08:10 AM

Simon Conway

Orlando Area Real Estate Services - Orlando, FL

Hugh - I don't have a fish but I was born under the fish sign - does that count? Equally I don't speed (remember, drive speed limit and save 25% on your gas bill) and I don't deliberately cut people off. Not saying I've never done it during a moment of bad concentration, but I can say I've never done it deliberately. I think it's the whole fish thing!

May 01, 2008 08:33 AM

Inna Hardison

ha media group - Orlando, FL

Wordpress for Real Estate & Design, Print HaMedia Group

Which one is the blinker again? Everyone in FLORIDA wants to know!
:-)

May 01, 2008 09:32 AM

The Bartley Group SouthEast MN Real Estate

Coldwell Banker Home Connection - Owatonna, MN

Buddy, great post. It is actually fun to say thank you and excuse me to people you have contact with throughout the day and watch their reactions. Some people are totally shocked when you do something nice.

Brian Bartley

May 01, 2008 10:57 AM

Gene Wunderlich

1st Action Real Estate - Murrieta, CA

Realtor & Legislative Liaison

Not to jack these great thoughts but for Terry & Hugh above, why do the all the people with the NOTW stickers drive like they're really not of this world? In SoCal if I see an Asian driving a car with a NOTW sticker, I just park my car for the rest of the day. And don't even get me started on lane divers - those last minute a-holes that would rather cause an accident than merge when it's their turn. The world would be a much nicer place without all of them (and many of you). (OK, that's a joke. I love all of you)

May 01, 2008 12:42 PM

Hugh Krone

Weichert Referral Associates - Hamburg, NJ

Realtor, Sussex County NJ

Terry,

Try as hard as you may but the world is simply not the terrible place you make it out to be. Every once in a while you should try happiness, its not deadly

May 01, 2008 12:56 PM

Terry Haugen STAGE it RIGHT! 321-956-2495

Stage it Right! - Melbourne, FL

Hugh, there is such a difference between reality and happiness. I'd rather live in reality and forgo a little rapturous happiness, than walk around thinking everything is so freakin rosy I can hardly believe it myself. Just because I'm a realist doesn't mean I'm not happy. I just don't need to believe what you believe to attain "peace".

May 01, 2008 03:20 PM

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