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One day, even before TBL was released, I was driving my father's car on the streets of my home town Hamburg (Germany). I wanted to get to a particular shop in a part of the city which I didn't know yet. When I got nearer, I looked for a free parking place in this unfamiliar area. But of course there was none anywhere, and driving around, I got increasingly stressed.

Then suddenly, while on a fairly big street, I saw a small parking lot on the other side. Because there was currently no traffic on the other side of the street I pulled over, only to realise in the middle of the opposite track that the parking lot belonged to some shop and didn't seem to be open.

So I just wanted to get back to where I came from, stopped the car and started turning it around. Probably not the best decision - very awkward situation. (Obviously I didn't have a lot of driving experience then.) But then I also saw that another car was already coming behind me, which turned it into a very awkward situation. While turning my car around I looked at the other one with a stressed and apologetic look on my face, fully expecting to see a justly enraged driver who would not hesitate to show me what he thought of my driving using probably rather unfriendly gestures.

But instead, in what I remember as a slightly older white Mercedes, through the open window I saw a guy with large black sunglasses, his left arm leaning on the window frame, who gave me a relaxed smile and briefly lifted his hand as if to say, "Take it easy, young man!"

That day, I was enlightened.

Fuckin' fabulous dude!

Welcome to our laid back beach community dude. Kick off your jellies, pull up a rug and smoke em if you got em.

Welcome, dudezone! Thank you for sharing this tale with us here - that put a big ol' smile on my face!

Mark it dude!

Truly you had a deep dudely experience. Awesome story, dude. And dude, welcome to our beach pad. Pull up a rug and abide.

Yeah it was very impressive... I also read about waitresses once or twice who said that while they were struggling to serve all the clients in a full cafe, one of them suddenly smiled to them and said sth like "Busy day, right?", and it also made their day.

Genuine, non-patronizing sympathy and empathy are very powerful things, indeed!

Quote from: dudezone on August 05, 2011, 06:33:13 AM
Yeah it was very impressive... I also read about waitresses once or twice who said that while they were struggling to serve all the clients in a full cafe, one of them suddenly smiled to them and said sth like "Busy day, right?", and it also made their day.