w00t w00t booyah

(silverkun and I have a running game we play with total strangers. It's called 'Make Their Day' and has a lot more to do with being Absolutely Nice to people who get beat on making a living. Like toll booth operators. People behind cash registers. People nobody sees as human beings and remain largely invisible because of it. NAH. Most of the time it only requires eye contact and a genuine 'thank you' to get the desired result. You want to do that to someone you admire, practice on people who could really use it. People NOBODY is nice to, for no really good reason other than they aren't famous or considered valuable by the CW.)

I make a point, at large events and festivals, of thanking the trash colletors and porta-john crews. I have lost track of the times the response has been a gobsmacked 'No one ever says thank you to us!'. Seriously? There's 10,000 people on this site and no one has thought about what life would be like if no one took care of the porta-johns? That's a lot more useful to me than the latest pop song.