Why do you include a wink in your posts?

[Caleb]

Half-glocked, keep on smiling and forget those who hate smiling. Smiling is contagious and can help make the job more fun, plus if you come across a potential cute girl, not smiling would be a turn off.

 

[printcraft]

(wink wink, nudge nudge)

Well I mean like you've er...you've done it...I mean like, you know...you've...er...you've slept...with a lady?

What's it like?

 

[gungirl65]

Phew! I was worried for a second. I wouldn't want to be considered forward by all the fine INGO folks.

A week into my current job, I was pulled aside by one of the older ladies working in the warehouse and told that I smiled too much, and that it was giving people the wrong idea.

Ever since then I have tried to go through life with a scowl on my face, I didn't even think about the fact that my emoticons should reflect the same thing. I am ashamed. From now on, I will only use this one, "".

PS, I'm about to rep everybody on this thread that I can. This has been fun.

(dang it! I forgot! last non-mad emoticon, I promise)

I had a grumpy boss tell me one time that I did not need to say hi to him every time I passed him in the hall. This was in a corporate setting and we would pass in the halls frequently. Most people extended niceties when passing. I was in my early 30's & bubbly, he wasn't much older but hated life and was just a grump. I tried to be less bubbly around him.

At other places, also in a corporate setting, I have been known to make people exchange niceties with me. The grumpy unhappy people would try to keep to themselves and continue being grumpy. I would always smile at them and greet them. Usually I could get them to at least smile back and sometimes even greet me when they saw me. Some people just need a little kindness to allow them to open up.