I found this writing interesting.

Interesting, because it explains what I've felt for awhile. I'm supposed to pleasantly "smile" at every stranger I pass or encounter ?

Why ?

Fakery is what it is. For all I know I just smiled and walked by a man that just raped and killed his wife. A woman that just used and abused the court system to ruin an innocent mans LIFE with false rape charges.

Why should I "smile" at people I don't know anything about and have no reason to respect ?

Perhaps Russions ARE saner ? Of course there's a bit more to this write up than fake smiles ....
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Russians are saner

Americans who are opening franchises such as Starbucks in Moscow are trying to train the local Russian workers to smile to the customers. This is because Russian service providers, just so you understand, don’t like to smile. Why should they like to do it ? Why should someone whose career pinnacle thus far is serving grand lattes smile ?

what can a customer who just bought a Starbucks coffee do with a smile? How will this smile help him? Once he tastes the coffee, the only thing anyone can do for him is give him his money back and offer a comforting hug, and even that won’t completely compensate for the unpleasantness.

Only American service providers smile automatically while getting six bucks an hour for doing their dead-end job. Meanwhile, only American customers believe this smile and smile back. More realistic nations – that is, everyone – know there’s nothing to smile about in the pour-coffee-for-me-and-I’ll-leave-you-a-quarter industry.

In fact, when it comes to completely enlightened nations, like the French for example, a waiter who is caught smiling has his license revoked on the spot.

And so, the Russians, a nation where service providers don’t smile and certainly don’t use a promotion to work harder, sound completely sane to me. Russians are serious characters, and their smiles, as is the case with most human beings, have some value. Yet the Americans emptied smiles of any value or emotion, after they made them free.

The American smile is meaningless. Strangers throw it your way on the street as if it was a free local newspaper at noon. It has neither meaning nor intention. It has no reason for being. It’s a false smile.

Yet the Russians are thinking people. They know that smiles have value, just like they know what Georgia is doing in south Ossetia, and they’re willing to fight against it.

I believe that in Russian it’s called “respect.”

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...583737,00.html

I hate fake smiles. Real smiles from the cute girls at Dunkin Donuts or at the deli are, of course, more than welcome. I'm talking about the girls who get to know me because I'm there every day flirting with them.

I wish the corps would remove the "fake smile" shit from their training manuals, and replace it with some training that would actually be usefull - like more knowlege of the product, or how to take an order correctly without screwing it up... you know, things that actually matter.

I always crack a smile when I see the girls at Hot-Dog-On-A-Stick bouncing around making lemonade.

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"[T]he illiteracy level of our children are appalling."—Washington, D.C., Jan. 23, 2004

If I'm going to pay an unreasonably large sum of money for a small cup of Starbucks coffee, the barista better give me a huge fucking smile, dammit.

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Bah.

Bullshit.

I want a naked hottie and a lap dance for the price they charge for coffee. I'll continue making my own at home until I get that. At LEAST naked chicks making the stuff might make it worth it

So did i, and that was just looking at the title!

Dude,

Naked chicks + hot liquids = bad scars.

We don't want scarred hotties, do we?

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Wouldn't it be cheaper to get a hooker or something? (I guess Ajax can let us know), and maybe she'll smile? Who knows.

No

Jeez I just saw a story yesterday about women who had had acid thrown in their faces.

It showed 'em too. These women MIGHT have been nice looking. Now they look like gross demons.

But it's gross, demonic men in the middle east that treat their women like this. It never ceases to amaze me what people do to each other over there. But then we have our own house of horrors over HERE too.

Wonder how much a hooker charges for a smile ?

Hey, at least you would have no chance of catching some form of funky crotch-rot

A smile makes you happy, even a fake one. And maybe you can also make somebody else happy with it. So why not smile?

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No, fake meaningless smiles make me disgusted not happy.

Real is always better than fake.

Smiles for no reason are almost always fake. Fake happiness is like canned laughter on T.V. sitcoms. Ridiculous, pointless, dumb and fooling no one.

Dunno, they probably charge by the tooth or something...

True...

Shit LOL

Didn't think of that "angle"

By the tooth

One that has all her teeth can charge $ 20 maybe ? Just fer smiling at you.

Hopefully her mouths not full of c

nevermind

Heh...

I'm assuming if they are denchers i'm assuming NV will let her knock the cost of them off her income taxes....