Ironic Karma

Oh the irony! This post is coming to you live from Detroit's International airport. Unfortunately, I will not be going anywhere international from here today. I took the red eye in from Seattle and was all prepared to hit the hay for a nap when I thought, "I'm going to look at my schedule one more time, just to be sure I know the right report time." Thank goodness I did, as my 8 DAY TRIP!!! was gone from my schedule!!! I call up scheduling to learn that, yep, the first leg of the trip, Detroit to Narita, canceled today. :-( So no 8 day trip, no Bangkok, no Hong Kong, no extra pay, nothing for me. Its a terrible thing to have happen. But I am going to look on the bright side, I'll get back to you when I learn what the bright side is. The irony is that I was planning on doing a post on karma today and share a story about last night with you all. (This just in, from a facebook post as I type: At least I get free drinks on my way back to Seattle in a few mins!) So the irony is what karma came back to me today?
Ok, the story. What goes around comes around. The golder rule. Do unto others as you would have done to you. Karma. All great ideas to live by right? Of course!
Last night I was out, once again in Capital Hill, with a fella I will call Fuse, and we went over to a place called Barca to get a drink. It was crowded as there was a big block party going on in the neighborhood last night. So needless to say the bartenders were crazy busy, and it was about 11pm. We make our way to the bar and Fuse goes to order us 2 gin and tonics. On a side note, I am trying gin out to see if I care for it. The bar tender asks "How's it going?" "Good,"Fuse says, "How's your night going?" Then he pauses to actually here the bar tenders answer. What a swell guy right? So we proceed to have a discussion about how being nice to people can get you far. Especially people in the service industry. Be nice to me on the plane and you may get something extra! Be nice and polite to service people and they notice and appreciate it! As we were speaking the bartender, Stefan, makes us a gin on the rocks with a splash of tonic. Apparently he had appreciated Fuse's politeness and rewarded him with 2 stiff drinks. Wow, not sure if I care for gin.

We continue on with our conversation and about 20, maybe 30 mins later Fuse comments on the fact that Stefan is making a lot of mojitos and that they are such a pain. We are speaking these words as he muddles the mint and lime, we are still watching as he pours it into two rocks glasses and gives them to us! Again, being polite, gets you far. But it doesn't end there. After finishing our first drink and the mini mojito we thinking of leaving when Stefan puts down 2 more g&t's in front of us! "It's on me," he says, "If you guys leave I don't know who might take your spot!"
Wow, he was so thankful to have some nice people there that he was giving us free drinks!
Moral of the story? Be nice to people! Be courteous to service industry people! That includes flight attendants! :-)

Now back to Seattle and some much needed sleep!