Comments on: Change the World: Sensitivity http://middlezonemusings.com/change-the-world-sensitivity/ It's about lessons learned... from life! Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:39:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Robert Hruzek http://middlezonemusings.com/change-the-world-sensitivity/#comment-1204 Robert Hruzek Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:14:39 +0000 http://middlezonemusings.com/change-the-world-sensitivity/#comment-1204 Mike: Thanks - I think cultivate is the right word. It describes how we learn it. In fact, I wonder where this waiter learned it from? Home, perhaps? Mike: Smooth is my middle name! Well, actually it's - eh, never mind :-) Mrs. Q: Yeah, I know what you mean; it's like saying "gore-met" for "gormet"... Thanks for the kind words, and thanks for adding to the conversation! Sterling: I'm afraid I'd be right there with ya! themolk: I have to agree with ya, my friend. Tact seems to be in short supply these days, though. Alas, and darn :-\ Mike: Thanks - I think cultivate is the right word. It describes how we learn it. In fact, I wonder where this waiter learned it from? Home, perhaps?

Mike: Smooth is my middle name! Well, actually it’s - eh, never mind :-)

Mrs. Q: Yeah, I know what you mean; it’s like saying “gore-met” for “gormet”… Thanks for the kind words, and thanks for adding to the conversation!

Sterling: I’m afraid I’d be right there with ya!

themolk: I have to agree with ya, my friend. Tact seems to be in short supply these days, though. Alas, and darn :-\

]]> By: themolk http://middlezonemusings.com/change-the-world-sensitivity/#comment-1203 themolk Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:59:07 +0000 http://middlezonemusings.com/change-the-world-sensitivity/#comment-1203 I think we need more of this in EVERY service industry - not just waiters, etc. IT, Government departments, you name it... Just that sensibility that respects other people and doesn't take the easy, obvious, and well-cultivated road these days of finding the joke in everything. People deserve respect, independent of what comes out of their mouths SOMETIMES... (yes, that's a big catch-all sometimes on purpose!). I think we need more of this in EVERY service industry - not just waiters, etc. IT, Government departments, you name it… Just that sensibility that respects other people and doesn’t take the easy, obvious, and well-cultivated road these days of finding the joke in everything. People deserve respect, independent of what comes out of their mouths SOMETIMES…

(yes, that’s a big catch-all sometimes on purpose!).

]]> By: Sterling Camden http://middlezonemusings.com/change-the-world-sensitivity/#comment-1202 Sterling Camden Thu, 21 Jun 2007 20:53:26 +0000 http://middlezonemusings.com/change-the-world-sensitivity/#comment-1202 I'm afraid I would have mistaken her request as a joke, and busted out laughing. <em>(Sound of buzzer)</em> I’m afraid I would have mistaken her request as a joke, and busted out laughing. (Sound of buzzer)

]]> By: Ms. Q http://middlezonemusings.com/change-the-world-sensitivity/#comment-1201 Ms. Q Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:46:08 +0000 http://middlezonemusings.com/change-the-world-sensitivity/#comment-1201 That is a great story on sensitivity! Very cute, too, 'chateaubriand' - makes me wonder how old the couple were. I could see being in her shoes - saying mir-lot (rhymes with SPOT) instead of mir-LOW (rhymes with SLOW). That is a great story on sensitivity! Very cute, too, ‘chateaubriand’ - makes me wonder how old the couple were. I could see being in her shoes - saying mir-lot (rhymes with SPOT) instead of mir-LOW (rhymes with SLOW).

]]> By: Mike http://middlezonemusings.com/change-the-world-sensitivity/#comment-1200 Mike Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:29:23 +0000 http://middlezonemusings.com/change-the-world-sensitivity/#comment-1200 That was so smooth I almost slipped out of my chair reading it! That was so smooth I almost slipped out of my chair reading it!

]]> By: Mike http://middlezonemusings.com/change-the-world-sensitivity/#comment-1199 Mike Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:31:20 +0000 http://middlezonemusings.com/change-the-world-sensitivity/#comment-1199 Sensitivity is not my first language, but worth the effort. Great word "cultivate"- lets us know even at 50+-- growth is possible. Sensitivity is not my first language, but worth the effort.
Great word “cultivate”- lets us know even at 50+– growth is possible.

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