What (if anything) brought a smile to your face to day?

[jbeany]

Holy cow, does that work with anyone?  I would NEVER give my bank account info to someone who walked up to me on the street!  Sounds like complete stupidity to me!

[CebuShan]

Whilst walking through town today I was accosted by a 'chugger' (someone who earns money to pounce on you and guilt-trip you into giving them your bank details so they can set up a monthly payment for whichever charity they happen to be working for that particular day ... they tend to work in teams so as soon as you side-step one, another will pounce - are they a UK thing or do they exist elsewhere in the world?) 
   

That reminds me of some phone calls my husband and I were getting a few years ago. This "company" kept calling and saying we had filled out an entry form (we didn't) and had won a $1500.00 gift card for a local mall. Curious, we started asking for details. It seems they wanted  $5.00 "processing fee" and wanted our bank routing number, not the account #. The routing # & our name would give them access to ALL of our accounts! We wouldn't give it to them. We asked for their address to send them a money order. They refused to give their address saying that it had to be done electronically. There was no way! So we told them thanks, but no thanks.  The very next week, we got a phone call from the same "company" saying we had won a $500.00 gift card! My husband had answered the phone and put it on speaker so I could listen. He proceeded to argue with the guy about the $1500.00 gift card we were offered last time. The guy on the hone kept trying to come up with an explanation but my husband wouldn't back down. Finally, the guy who called us got so frustrated that HE hung up! We haven't heard from them since. We did give the name of the company to our Better Business Bureau. I had to laugh because usually my husband is not that forceful!   

[Bill Peckham]

YouTube can always put a smile on my face. I saw this today, and it worked
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxPbgnO81sQ&

[Poppylicious]

Holy cow, does that work with anyone?  I would NEVER give my bank account info to someone who walked up to me on the street!  Sounds like complete stupidity to me!

It does and people do!  It's all legal and even well-established charities 'fundraise' in this way, but the 'chuggers' are mostly incredibly extrovert young people who do it for extra income to get through uni.  The silly thing is that your charitable donation for a year probably equals one 'chuggers' wage for a day so it's money which would be better donated by other means.

YouTube can always put a smile on my face. I saw this today, and it worked
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxPbgnO81sQ&

LOVE this!

At the football match today two ten year old boys next to me made me smile with their enthusiatic (and somewhat inaccurate) chatter about football (soccer, but I refuse to call it that).  Their enthusiasm was balanced out by the hard-nut fans who shouted lots of rude words at the referree, linesmen and players.  This also made me smile.  I love football matches!

 

[Chris]

Usually it is the male cat, but today the pup greeted me at the door all jumpy till he saw how I looked, then just walked by my side without trying to trip or run in front of me.Then just put his head in my lap after we both sat on the stairs till I went up to my room where he laid there without chasing or barking at the cat laying under my desk. Fell asleep on the floor and woke up 5 hours later with both of them gone without making a noise.

[CebuShan]

Usually it is the male cat, but today the pup greeted me at the door all jumpy till he saw how I looked, then just walked by my side without trying to trip or run in front of me.Then just put his head in my lap after we both sat on the stairs till I went up to my room where he laid there without chasing or barking at the cat laying under my desk. Fell asleep on the floor and woke up 5 hours later with both of them gone without making a noise.

Isn't it amazing how they always seem to know?  I was sooo tired after D yesterday that I wanted to take a nap. My husband laid down also. This was about 2 pm. We woke up a couple f times but did not "get up" until 4am this morning! Meanwhile, the cat & dog were very quiet and indulged in none of their usual battles until after we got up!

[jbeany]

This!

[Riki]

OMG.. Jbeany... I LOVE that..... I guess you just made me smile.. *G*

My family doctor, when I had just come home after the peritonitis infection, saw me walking with a walker.  I explained to him that I had a lot of fluid buildup in my legs (I didn't understand it much back then, but now I think the nurses in the hospital may have been running me in minimum because they didn't know how my body would react) due to the dialysis. After what I thought was a reasonable explanation, he said, very sharply and to the point, "if your weight is affecting your mobility, perhaps you should think about losing a few pounds."  I was shocked.

A month or so ago, my mom met up with my neph in the parking lot at the dialysis unit, and she relayed this story to him.  He asked her if I'd had a bat.  Mom kinda looked at him, until he said, "she should knock some sense into him."  He might be a dork, but he gets me. *L*