{"id":44,"date":"2011-02-15T17:27:38","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T17:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godscomic\/2011\/02\/have-a-nice-dayand-i-mean-it.html"},"modified":"2011-02-15T17:27:38","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T17:27:38","slug":"have-a-nice-dayand-i-mean-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godscomic\/2011\/02\/have-a-nice-dayand-i-mean-it.html","title":{"rendered":"Have a nice day..and I mean it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:200%\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">Just<br \/>\nfinished shopping at Publix here in Nashville. Publix is a grocery store that<br \/>\nis way over priced but its worth it because they taught all their employees to<br \/>\nfake the fact that they care you&#8217;re there. As I was leaving I had no less than<br \/>\n4 employees tell me to have a nice day on the way out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:200%\"><span>I<br \/>\nhave often wondered how one goes about having a nice day. What even constitutes<br \/>\na nice day in the first place? I mean how hard is it? I suppose not getting<br \/>\nelectrocuted would define a nice day but what about clipping your nails? If<br \/>\nyour nails are too long and they bug you then to have them clipped would be nice.<br \/>\nSince that niceness happened within the course of a day then apparently you<br \/>\nhave had a nice day. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:200%\"><span>What<br \/>\nif , on the other hand, something goes wrong during the day that makes it a bad<br \/>\nday but later something nice happens? Which day is it then, nice or not? Is<br \/>\nthere a rule? Maybe the last place the day landed becomes the defining point<br \/>\nfor the day you think? Why do we say have a nice day but when it isn&#8217;t nice we<br \/>\nsay we are having a &#8220;bad&#8221; day. Shouldn&#8217;t it be we&#8217;re having a &#8220;mean&#8221; day? Isn&#8217;t<br \/>\nmean the opposite of nice? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:200%\"><span>I<br \/>\nalso think we need to take into consideration who we are asking to have a nice<br \/>\nday since that could make all the difference. A nice day to me may not be<br \/>\nconsidered as nice to, say, Attila the Hun for example. His idea of a nice day<br \/>\nstarts with crushing the skulls of your enemy with battle-axes and broadswords<br \/>\nand ends sweetly with some ill-gotten gains of meat, vegetables and animal<br \/>\nskins. Oh and lets not forget a nightcap of raping and pillaging. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:200%\"><span>Putting<br \/>\nthe pressure on a stranger to have a nice day is also off putting and<br \/>\npotentially insulting. How do you know I&#8217;m not in the middle of a nice day?<br \/>\nMaybe this is one of the nicest days I have ever had then you come along and<br \/>\nruin it by implying it&#8217;s not nice <i>enough<\/i>.<br \/>\nNow I&#8217;m starting to get paranoid about my settling for my pathetic nice day<br \/>\nwhen there was a better one waiting for me as long as I ran into a cashier and<br \/>\nbagger at the grocery store to encourage me into the promised land. What do they<br \/>\nknow that I don&#8217;t? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:200%\"><span>Yes I<br \/>\nget most of my life encouragement and motivation from people making 7 bucks an<br \/>\nhr. I think ultimately the term have a nice day is an insult. Why would anyone<br \/>\never need a reminder to have a nice day like it never occurred to you until<br \/>\nthat moment? What idiot wakes up and hopes for a crappy day? Who isn&#8217;t always<br \/>\nEVERY day shooting for a nice one? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:200%\"><span>All<br \/>\nin all I&#8217;m simply saying that having a nice day may not happen since I don&#8217;t<br \/>\ncontrol the universe. On the other hand, if we encouraged each other to <i>make<\/i> a nice day, we just might be onto<br \/>\nsomething. Anyhow that&#8217;s my thoughts for today so have a good one&#8230;Hey, wait a<br \/>\nminute&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished shopping at Publix here in Nashville. Publix is a grocery store that is way over priced but its worth it because they taught all their employees to fake the fact that they care you&#8217;re there. 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