“We cannot learn real patience and tolerance from a guru or a friend. They can be practiced only when we come in contact with someone who creates unpleasant experiences. According to Shantideva, enemies are really good for us as we can learn a lot from them and build our inner strength." The Dalai Lama I don't think I have any real enemies, but I have people who don't like me, I'm sure. As I always tried to teach the Sneed children, whether or not someone likes you is not really your concern. Be nice to people and if they don't reciprocate, don't lose a bunch of sleep over it. The world is full of other people. I do wish that I had the power to tell our more nasty customers to "get out and stay out" of the store. I don't think that their money entitles them to be rude. But I don't own the store so I just refuse to wait on the known a-holes. Wednesday, our regular customer, the crazy Marine for Life, got right up in my face and demanded to know what he had to do to get some keys made? I was busy with someone else and told him that he had to wait his turn because I was busy. He went to get the manager, who pacified the old nut. In his honor I thought this clip from A Few Good Men was in order. Nicholson is always spell-binding. Things in this blog represented to be fact, may or may not actually be true. The writer is frequently wrong, sometimes just full of it, but always judgmental and cranky