National Be Nice Day 2024

2024-10-05

So I once avoided situations where I was expected to be pleasing and agreeable in nature. Since my fashionista days of the late 1980s I have tried to maintain as pleasant or attractive appearance as was possible with the resources available to me.

Now I neither dress for nor coddle these crybaby sensitive types.

v Also early on exhibiting courtesy and politeness was somehow anathema to my existence. I think it has to do with my public school education.

Nowadays I am somewhat more amenable to societal norms until I meet someone with an ax to grind and there it all goes out the window.

Today is National Be Nice Day. It is an October 5th happening to remind us that we should be nice everyday.

Positivity not withstanding I am simply trying to avoid beating the crap out of somebody for some avoidable transgression of comportment.

Luckily I tend to my own demeanor these days and have little to be confrontational regarding — though I admit the animosity can certainly raise it's ugly head at the drop of a hat.

So be nice if that's you. I don't ask anyone to be anything other than what they are.

Happy National Be Nice Day and try not to be too confrontational or combative.

Just keep that trusty mattock handle or favorite club handy and I'll try to do the same.