you're so nice!

i had been working on a post about the phrase "you're so nice" and how often i seem to hear it. i wonder why i hear it so much, does it mean anything and why am i so damned nice? is it a weakness? is it a gift? is it nature vs nuture? did i cultivate "niceness" to fit in? are there really that many jerks who aren't nice and that's why when people encounter a nice person, they have to say it? am i really that nice or is it a desperate call for help!? W.T.F?!!

after working in a restaurant these last few weeks, i've come to realise that i TRULY am a nice person. when you go out to eat, you should always be nice to the person who prepares and serves your food -- did fight club not teach us anything about being nice to "the help"? most people aren't nice, or anything close to it. shocking, i know, but true. people are fucking rude assholes. but worse, they're also stupid, rude assholes.

logically, if the world is filled with more assholes than nice people, do you really trust the person serving you is a sweetheart and really not an asshole? the kind that would wipe the floor with your chicken, farmer-blow into your soup, fart on your steak or put toejam on your toast perhaps? i know, it's gratuitous grossness but you get my point right?

well, what i wanna say is now i know i'm nice, because i wouldn't do that. even though some people are colossally rude to the point where i'd like to tell them to just shove it. but instead, like a nice person does, i just take a deep breath and then let it go. then i make sure their order is perfect and just hope they eat and leave quickly.

as for being "nice" i won't stop it. it's my trademark. but don't be surprised when some other server isn't nice.