C (Customer): Do you sell smiles?
SK (shopkeeper): Yes. But they’re quite costly.
C: Ah, not a problem! Please give a box of them to that lady there; it’s on me!
SK: Oh, sorry! You’re not the first to try…but I never have any that fits her!
So, does a smile cost a lot, really? Or, is it just a matter of no-size-fits-some?
Been wondering about this for a while now. There is this neighbour of mine, at whom I’ve smiled a million times — without fail, everytime, she turns around and hurries into her house.
image courtesy: http://www.savagechickens.com
Either its my buck teeth which she isn’t too impressed with; or her smiles are damn expensive and she knows I cannot afford one ever in my life!
Well, I’ve never bitched about her on her face (not even to other neighbours), never made faces at her, never tried to flirt with her husband, never tried to make her kid shoot her with his plastic gun…so I can’t, for the life of me, figure out why I get such a cold response to one little, innocent smile.
It’s been 9 months, now. But well, irrespective of all that, I still smile at her every single time.Β It’s a simple principle I follow: It’s always there, right under my nose, and it costs me nothing! So, why forget it’s there?? Well, I believe there’s always a smile at the end of a 14-muscle stretch! π
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P.S.: Well, to those whom it matters: I do not have buck teeth — I smiled at my maid’s kid today and she didn’t look scared…not a bit!)
AlphabetWorld! 
Wow, you have a maid?
I’d smile too.
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I know what you mean…
There’s a guy in my office who doesn’t ever return a smile. I always bump into him in the hallway and when our eyes meet, I smile. It’s kind of like a reflex action. But he’s like this rock, dead as ever. I told my colleagues about it, they said he never returns their smiles too, thinks no one deserves it! Strange!
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LOL, thats the only thing I know – Smile !!! Your neighbour should meet me then ! π π π
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π smile and world smiles at you, cry and you cry alone! π
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Some people are perpetually on the defense, and normal conversation for them is always adversarial. Those poor souls seem incapable of functioning in public without being offended by everyday people.
Okay, who am I kidding.
The wife.
She can be hard to live with.
Ain’t love strange?
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Its funny.. i read “not a bit” and instantly think of the joker…
anyway, keep smiling i guess, she’s bound to repay even if after many years.. it’ll be worth it then i guess.. or maybe she has a jaw problem and can’t smile.. xL
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welcome back π
i think now a days i smile a lot π
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lol nice cartoon!
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LOL.. well, may b u shud give her a cold stare in return.. u know.. widout blinking n all.. she might not smile, but she wont stare coldly either.. n hey.. may b as a revenge, u shud try flirting wid her husband instead! π
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Gandhigiri Zindabad….:)…Hope you are having a good time,leaving aside ur neighbour woes…
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Keep up your Gandhigiri. Really!!
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She might be an introvert. Some people are too scared to smile back.
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I’ll second sekanblogger – a maid? In 2009? Seriously? Wow. But I did enjoy the post though.
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lol π Even I have a habit of passing on a smile to people I cross!!! Most of the times I get a smile back..
PPl who don’t pass the smile back become a challenge for me π
Keep smiling and passing on the smiles π
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I used to smile at the old neighbor of mine whenever our ball landed in his compound … but he never smiled … neither did he returned a single ball π¦
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π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π All for you sweetness…
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π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π
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LOL wait till i come over next time..well stand there and keep smiling..someone who cant smile back??well we gottto knw!! what it really takes π chirippichittu thanne vere karyam! π
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Dunno why people react in such a way.. smile costs nothing, but it really makes the other person happy for which your CUTE SMILE is the reason π π hey btw i have added ur blog in my roll too π
cheers! keep visiting.
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π π Smile is the only curver that sets things straight… I always have one on my face.. and sumtimes ppl just get irritated and frustated to see me smiling everytime..
And lol.. were the girls who said u look good with the dimple when u smile..lied all the time??
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@ALL: I think she read the blog; haven’t seen her outside since I posted this! π Guess she’s getting a plastic surgery done for a permanently smiling face π
The power of blogging, I tell you! π
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Lol…yeah some people are very stingy when it comes to giving smiles. A person at my workplace is like that! By the way, even if you did have buck teeth, there’s no reason for someone not to smile back. One of my lecturers had the most imperfect teeth…crooked and all…but she was always smiling and could light up the room. She tried teaching us that as well. π FYI, I have bunny teeth! π
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