{"id":31911,"date":"2021-11-18T22:15:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T19:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gicinga.com\/?p=31878"},"modified":"2021-11-18T22:15:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T19:15:38","slug":"opinion-it-pays-to-be-courteous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/opinion-it-pays-to-be-courteous\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion – It pays to be courteous"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mary( not her real name) made very good sales in her shop just by being courteous! One day, there was a burial in her area of a very important army personality who had passed on. There was a convoy of posh cars that was a mile long. Mourners had come to give their final respect to the departed soul.<\/p>\n

Then Mary saw three posh cars park in front of her shop. All of a sudden one gentleman came out of his car towards her shop. With a smile she greeted him and the man asked,<\/p>\n

“Can we park our cars here?”<\/p>\n

Without hesitation, Mary answered, “Yes. The cars are safe.”<\/p>\n

Thereafter the mourners left her shop and walked a kilometre away to the burial ground. And the fact that the mourners had left their cars a mile away, no doubt had a feeling of cars being stolen or broken into.<\/p>\n

After three hours, the funeral came to an end. The gentleman came back and entered the shop. Again Mary, who acted as a security guard all that time, gave her visitor yet another free inviting smile. Then the man said joyfully, ” we are back. Have you had your lunch?”<\/p>\n

” Yes. But am waiting for my supper,” Mary said quickly giving her visitor a beaming smile.<\/div>\n
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Quickly the man groped his pocket and pulled out a wad of currency notes.<\/div>\n
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“Here is your lunch mama,” he said giving Mary Kshs.1000. The man went on,<\/div>\n
“give us sodas and a few bananas.”<\/div>\n
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With a beaming smile, she served her unexpected guests who ended buying other goods at her shop to a tune of Kshs.3000 and when she added her own cash for supper she had a good cash collection of 4000 shillings just for being courteous and coupled with that godly smile.<\/div>\n
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It’s good to be courteous. It’s good to give that free smile that emanates deepest from one’s heart.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mary( not her real name) made very good sales in her shop just by being courteous! One day, there was a burial in her area of a very important army personality who had passed on. There was a convoy of posh cars that was a mile long. Mourners had come to give their final respect […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[132],"class_list":["post-31911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-courtesy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}