Somebody I met today was very rude. He stormed in demanding to be helped right away. I let him know what the parameters were and he got really upset with me. I continued to politely reason with him and he gave me a gem of a comment.

"I know you're being nice but I'm done being nice."

Excuse me? You come in demanding help and then yell the person who's trying to help you? That's just rude.

I, for one, have never been a fan of people taking out their anger on other people. I'm not innocent of that, but I've done my best to temper my anger as much as I can.

Seriously though, all life has dignity, and therefore all work has dignity. What people do for their livelihoods supports their families, hopes, and dreams. Even if you're not the person in the McDonald's drive thru, or the janitor, or the person who processes your paperwork at the DMV. They do that job and you don't. Maybe they like it? Maybe they prefer it to other jobs, or maybe that's the only job that they can do.

But you need to respect that the job they're doing is one you can't... Or won't. Maybe you don't want to be at the DMV, or were able to acquire a different form of employment. These people have the ability to help you because you might not know how to help yourself. It's kind of like why they say not to be rude to the server. They might spit in your food.

I mean, I don't have a food equivalent for what happened... But I continued to be nice. The fact is, however, most people who work in customer service like helping people. In fact, even outside of customer service, most people are decent enough not to be rude. He ended up getting his beef solved and I got the last laugh.

He apologized to me twice before he left.

Runner up: Met the guys who run this website. One of them lives here now, and moved here for the "women." Mostly because they're "beautiful, nice, and really great to talk to."