I travel for a living, like many business people here and I just have ONE little request from the people I encounter during my endeavors....USE SOME MANNERS.  I know many people dislike their jobs, but that's no reason to make us travelers dislike them as employees.  Why should they care?  Let me tell you...

Each and every time I travel, I try to make everyone I come in to contact with have a better day than they were having before I entered their life.  I do this by using the gift my parents gave (forced) upon me during my childhood - my manners.  A simple smile with a please, thank you, hello, have a great day, or what ever can make life so much better.   Positive thoughts make a positive day.  Conversely, negative thoughts make a negative day.  What are the indirect benefits to being nice to people?

1.  It makes everything go faster and easier.  Think how nice it would be to stand in the security line at the airport if it were fun.  If people were nice to you there, it would be fun, and the line would go so much faster as everyone would more willingly comply with the rules the TSA has set forth.  

2.  It makes everything safer.  People that are happy take ownership. If more people were taking ownership in the security line, the possibility would decrease of a bad person making it through the line.  Bad intentioned people are not happy about what they are doing, they are scared to death that they will get caught.  It's human nature for them to be in a defensive posture when they are trying to smuggle, steal, run from, or conceal something.  

I know my perfect world doesn't exist, but the TSA should take a hard look at attitudes.  It would really make a difference.

Travel safely

Adam

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