WHAT CITY FOLK FAIL TO NOTICE

When city folk, important people doing important things, step outside their comfort zone, they too often neglect the effort it takes to receive them.

Isn’t it the same with you? If you want to see something, you make an effort to get there.

It’s more than sitting at a desk, then sitting in a car, then a plane, then another car, before the short walk to the microphone.

Important city folk have people handle the details, make the calls, reserve the space, so the person sitting can continue sitting.

Is that how you like it? Or would you like to see people with more in common with you?

I like to think important people got to be important because they figured things out first, like how to show up on time. It sounds simple, right, since everyone can tell time.

Being late, habitually late, is a bad habit.

Make plans with someone who runs their own business, someone who loses money to spend time with you, then be hours late with no phone call, and expect the worst.

If city folk are late, they have a built in excuse. There was a crash, a traffic jam, a breakdown, anything except the truth, that the person waiting wasn’t important enough to be one time.

Call it manners, or values, or just being a good person, and skip the excuses. The person waiting skipped the excuses. In fact, they’ve marked you off their active list. Break trust and it might stay broken.

City folk have lots of stimulation, lots to see and hear and remember, and they forget others don’t run on the same level of excitement. While the big wheel ties things up, wraps things up, the person waiting for them stews and steams and tries to hold their anger in check.

But they eventually blow.

Never be surprised when you get treated like someone you know they don’t like.

Jackass around enough and you become someone, too.