We tried to get "crap" into the title, but it just wouldn't work. But kiss-ass was impossible not to use.

This is about being polite. About how we treat each other. And how AR has helped us with it... kinda sometimes, less on others, and a lot across the board.

We've been here a bit over a year now. And once we figured out the commenting thing, we immediately began to notice the ritual of AR. There is a politeness around here. Usually it's about support, something kind from our professional peers about a job, thought or goof well done.

Every now and then we see a post about anit-AR behavior, but we're rarely ever encounterd any of that ourselves. We like that; it's a cool thing.

In the flurry of not-enough-but-some-escrow activity we've seen lately, we've also noticed this. Some real estate agents who are not on AR, who have not gotten down into the AR ritual trenches, seem to lack something sometimes. Like we know something they don't.

It's not just about how we treat each other that we see differences from time to time, but that's the most important part we think. Kinda reminds us of the core golden-rule principle of our ethics, huh? Maybe we should all get CE ethics credits for being on AR? We've certainly learned more here than any of those... classes.

So, this is about being polite. I wish I could be that all of the time. And when I fall off the welcome wagon, and come back here, it all seems to get better rather quickly. Have you ever noticed that?

The only other question we have is have you ever seen a better way than this to get kiss-ass into an AR title?