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In Science and Technology thread, LittleNipper wrote this:
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I think the Nipper had a good point. So to prevent your own life from getting boring, may I suggest the following activities which I have been practicing to an increasing extent for many years:
1. When you see someone you can help, particularly a woman, such as one on the side of the freeway with a flat tire, give her a hand. I can't tell you how many tires I have changed for stranded women.
Very rewarding. You have a mother, a sister, a wife, a daughter. What would you want someone else to do if that was your loved one?
2. When you see litter, cans, ,food wrappers, and now face masks discarded on sidewalks and parking lots pick the stuff up and put it where it belongs, in a trash receptacle. Your actions will encourage others to do likewise.
3. Pay particular attention to crosswalks, for nails and screws to prevent flat tires. That one act would have saved Denise Huber's life, God bless her and her parents.
4. Next time you're at the local grocery store, stop and pat a clerk on the back and say "Thank you for feeding me! You're the last link in the food chain." NOBODY says that to them. You'll brighten their day and your own
5. Bake some chocolate chip cookies and call your police department. Tell them to have officers stop in for four cookies each. Then take a plate to your grocery store and give a couple to each clerk there. NOBODY does that. They love it.
6. See someone in public with an intriguing tee shirt, or familiarity? Strike up a conversation with them. The more you do this, the better you will get at it. Be complimentary and kind. My most recent idea was to approach big, strong looking young (or old for that matter) men at outdoor shopping center tables and say, "If there's a rumble, I'm on your side!" Good for a laugh.
7. At Costco, or other store full of shopping carts, I approach kids riding in the cart and say, "Can I get in with you?" The usual reaction is stunned silence as I wink to the mother or father. A few say "Yes" whereupon I reply "Good answer. Here's a quarter." They love that easy money. If they say No or nothing, I show them the quarter and say "I was going to give this to you if you said yes" and immediately they say YES, YES!!!! Uh uh. Too late. Parents get a kick out of this.
8. A husband and wife at any store with a cart: "Fill that thing up. He's got the money!"
First time I said this, the elderly gentleman smiled and said "Loaded!"
9. When there is a pothole, a shock hazard, a street light burning in broad daylight, or a water leak, call the city and report it. They'll take care of it very promptly. Bushes intruding on the width of the public sidewalk? That's a code violation. Report it and the owner will get a letter to cut the bushes. Don't wait for someone else to do what needs to be done. Take charge!
Every department head in my city knows me, and when the repairs aren't done correctly, I point them out and tell them "You sent a boy to do a man's job." It is fun to have fun but you have to know how. - The Cat in the Hat
10. Parents with two daughters get interrupted so I can tell them my website for a story to read their two daughters as we read to ours, at bedtime every night. Best story ever: Many Moons
Don't read it by yourself but only read it to the group for the first time so you can all share the surprises that await you .
We scientists have found that doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested... – Martin Seligman, in his book Flourish
Class dismissed. Now go out and practice these. You'll enjoy yourself, I promise you.
(If you do not enjoy yourself, I'll have to, well you know.......)
They die young and live to get drunk and have sex. And after a while of sex, drugs, and drink they find that life is boring.
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I think the Nipper had a good point. So to prevent your own life from getting boring, may I suggest the following activities which I have been practicing to an increasing extent for many years:
1. When you see someone you can help, particularly a woman, such as one on the side of the freeway with a flat tire, give her a hand. I can't tell you how many tires I have changed for stranded women.
Very rewarding. You have a mother, a sister, a wife, a daughter. What would you want someone else to do if that was your loved one?
2. When you see litter, cans, ,food wrappers, and now face masks discarded on sidewalks and parking lots pick the stuff up and put it where it belongs, in a trash receptacle. Your actions will encourage others to do likewise.
3. Pay particular attention to crosswalks, for nails and screws to prevent flat tires. That one act would have saved Denise Huber's life, God bless her and her parents.
4. Next time you're at the local grocery store, stop and pat a clerk on the back and say "Thank you for feeding me! You're the last link in the food chain." NOBODY says that to them. You'll brighten their day and your own
5. Bake some chocolate chip cookies and call your police department. Tell them to have officers stop in for four cookies each. Then take a plate to your grocery store and give a couple to each clerk there. NOBODY does that. They love it.
6. See someone in public with an intriguing tee shirt, or familiarity? Strike up a conversation with them. The more you do this, the better you will get at it. Be complimentary and kind. My most recent idea was to approach big, strong looking young (or old for that matter) men at outdoor shopping center tables and say, "If there's a rumble, I'm on your side!" Good for a laugh.
7. At Costco, or other store full of shopping carts, I approach kids riding in the cart and say, "Can I get in with you?" The usual reaction is stunned silence as I wink to the mother or father. A few say "Yes" whereupon I reply "Good answer. Here's a quarter." They love that easy money. If they say No or nothing, I show them the quarter and say "I was going to give this to you if you said yes" and immediately they say YES, YES!!!! Uh uh. Too late. Parents get a kick out of this.
8. A husband and wife at any store with a cart: "Fill that thing up. He's got the money!"
First time I said this, the elderly gentleman smiled and said "Loaded!"
9. When there is a pothole, a shock hazard, a street light burning in broad daylight, or a water leak, call the city and report it. They'll take care of it very promptly. Bushes intruding on the width of the public sidewalk? That's a code violation. Report it and the owner will get a letter to cut the bushes. Don't wait for someone else to do what needs to be done. Take charge!
Every department head in my city knows me, and when the repairs aren't done correctly, I point them out and tell them "You sent a boy to do a man's job." It is fun to have fun but you have to know how. - The Cat in the Hat
10. Parents with two daughters get interrupted so I can tell them my website for a story to read their two daughters as we read to ours, at bedtime every night. Best story ever: Many Moons
Don't read it by yourself but only read it to the group for the first time so you can all share the surprises that await you .
We scientists have found that doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested... – Martin Seligman, in his book Flourish
Class dismissed. Now go out and practice these. You'll enjoy yourself, I promise you.
(If you do not enjoy yourself, I'll have to, well you know.......)
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