Should You Always Smile When Alone?

[fuzzyfelt]

Something about having dimples when you are young- people keep asking to see them, and the state sort of stuck, but less so now.

 

[DaveC426913]

Something about having dimples when you are young- people keep asking to see them, and the state sort of stuck, but less so now.

Doesn't always work. I flashed my dimples once, at the beach. Caused a stampede of mothers snatching up their children. Almost landed me in jail.

 

[fuzzyfelt]

Nice, Dave! I see I had been ambiguous, and to clarify, I was meaning the facial variety of dimples.

 

[Moonbear]

Whenever I see a baby or toddler, I always smile at it.

My usual reaction is to stick my tongue out at them or make funny faces. I don't know why, but they usually respond to it better than a smile.

 

[Loren Booda]

Kids are usually less jaded than their parents, but it depends on what stage they're at as to whether I act formal, silly or just friendly. I haven't tried the tongue greeting lately.

 

[Evo]

Whenever I see a baby or toddler, I always smile at it. I think that's a natural human response. Anyway it's one of the few times I smile. Like W.C. Fields, I start my day with a smile and get it over with.
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That's too funny, I was quoting W C Fields to someone just this morning.

"Do you like children?" and Fields responds, "I do if they're properly cooked."

Madam, there's no such thing as a tough child— if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender.

Got to love this guy.


Ok, I can just feel the people responding to this. It was W C Fields, not me.

 

[DaveC426913]

I haven't tried the tongue greeting lately.

Tongue-greeting...

You want to meet for coffee? :!)

 

[Loren Booda]

Nah, mine's been burned often enough.

 

[protonchain]

Only if they initiate the smile do I smile back.

I usually say hi or nod my head to bicyclists/joggers.

And if I'm driving and I see (for example) a nice corvette, I'll usually put a thumb up or nod.

At work, it's hi and how are you every 5 minutes, and I've made different greetings for different people.

I'll call one of my bosses Dr. Paul or Lord Paul. We have a Vietnamese person named Hao working there so I always ask her "Hao-how are you" or "How squared are you".

I tend to have the biased viewpoint that people in So-cal are fairly outgoing and will in the very least scrunch their lips or nod at you and at the very most will say "Beautiful day today huh?"