A Dip in the Cool

On a night where my T-shirt tacks to my body, following a day where my sunglasses practically melted off of my face, I decided to dip myself in the coolness of my backyard oasis... ahh the swimming pool...

it's midnight and 83 degrees outside. Delicious.
This is Rancho Cucamonga, a dessert.
Sleeping tonight will neither come with ease nor comfort.

Skidooosh...

I have this deep intense passion and desire to blog about something...

Everyday my mind races with clever sentences and ideas that could be turned into typed cleverness;

but by the end of the night, when I finally get a chance to sit and wind down and transform my thoughts into something tangible,

They all escape.

The Theology of Compliments to and from Strangers

I laugh out loud sometimes.

Ok, I do it a lot actually.

That expression, LOL, is sort of my personality description.

One of the things that makes me LOL the most is when the thoughts inside my head actually materialize into the world around me, without my intention.

Moments when this happens make me say to God, "you are funny and you know it, don't you?"

Amongst those moments, one that occurred really stuck out to me this past week. 

I was at work, in the drive thru, doing what we call "pushing" which is giving the customer their drinks and food. I decided to experiment a little.

My hypothesis was that if I complimented the customer, they would be quicker to take their drinks and food and leave. 

Plus, it would probably make their day a little happier.

So I tested out my hypothesis and according to the data, it was true! 

The compliments consisted of 

"I really like your top" or

"you have a really awesome car" or

"wow, I bet you really hate gas prices right now" (ok, not necessarily a compliment, but there were a TON of SUV's coming through!)

As my shift was winding down, I was mulling over the thoughts of my compliments to strangers and thinking about just how strange my actions really were! I mean, think about it: 

When you are going throughout your daily life, you don't often think about the people around you. Seriously, you know you don't.

And I got to thinking... What would the world look like if we weren't so afraid to offer compliments to total strangers?

I think it would be a happier place, with less horn honking and drinking problems, honestly.

So right as I'm considering this, a customer comes up to the front counter for a refill which I happened to help him with. As I handed him back his cup, he said, 

"wow, those eyes are dangerous! You could light up an entire room with those eyes, be careful! How God has blessed you girl!"

I smiled and said "Oh, you have no idea..."