Being Friendly

Every day for the past week, I have had to wait as there is only one lane open on 267 due to those guys who cut down trees on the sides of the road and make wood chips out of them. Haha...I'm not sure I'd call it construction, but I guess it could be considered "road work" even though they're not working on the road. Anyway, they have their little "STOP" and "SLOW" signs [which, by the way, I've always wanted to be one of the people who get to talk on the walkie-talkies and turn the signs]. So, usually when I go by those guys [or girls] that are doing the signs, I don't bother to look at them. I guess I don't really think about it. But, for the past week, I've passed them almost 4 times every day. So this morning, I decided to actually give a glance at the guys that were doing the signs....and don't ya know, they smiled and waved. I definitely was not expecting that out of them so the next time I went by I made sure to smile. I just think nowadays, people are too involved in themselves and too caught up in what they have to do, where they have to be, and what time they have to be there to even have the decency to look around and maybe offer a friendly smile to a fellow human being. Eh, anyway, that's about it...

"Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day." ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.