How to be the Worst Nice Persosn - By: C S Lewis

I once heard the saying, "No good deed goes unpunished." In some ways, I actually agree with this quote, not because I believe that truly righteous deeds result in ingratitude, but because there are a handful of people in this world who should be punished based on what they think a good deed is. People that remove tickets from other people's cars in an effort to save the driver the anguish of being ticketed, the doctors who "misread" charts and inform their diseased patients they actually tested negative for a deadly illness, and those shoppers who pay for their groceries in change should all be aware that their "acts of kindness" are not kind at all, but really rather spiteful and are not appreciated by the rest of the public.

As I walked down my street a few days ago, I saw a car parked on the side of the road with a bright orange piece of paper under a windshield wiper. It read "PARKING TICKET" in an all capitalized, black, bold, very mean font. The poor driver probably had no idea that they parked in an area requiring a residential parking permit between the hours of 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. I automatically felt bad for the driver, but obviously not as bad as someone else felt. When I walked by fifteen minutes later the ticket was gone. Some kind soul must have removed the ticket in an effort to save the driver from any bitter feelings that may have arose against the police officer that so dutifully placed the ticket there. I know I would not be thrilled at all in the long run if this happened to me. I almost felt like leaving a note on the car just to let the driver know about the situation, but I decided I should let some officer in the future be the bearer of that good news.

I think another way people, particularly doctors, try to make other's lives better is by lying a little, or sometimes a lot. Why on earth would someone want to know they have a deadly, serious illness when they could be told they don't have one? If someone who has cancer goes to the hospital and tests positive, they probably will not be very pleased when they find out they do have an awful condition. Not many would be thrilled to know they have cancer, so you really cannot blame the doctors too much for reading patients a more readily accepted, although wrong, test result. But once again, in all honesty, I definitely think those patients will not be happy in the long run, particularly the next time they have to visit the hospital.

Another characteristic among the best intentioned people is that they take longer to pay for groceries. This is because paying with spare change brings happiness to all involved. "Find a penny, pick it up, throughout the day you'll have good luck." Horribly kind people are those that insist on using all of their change at the cash register even when there is a dreadfully long line behind them. It is not that they are trying to clean their wallet out; they are simply trying to increase the luck of the cashier. It really does not matter if those waiting in line have to stand idle a little longer. The important thing to remember is that now that cashier will have a happy-go-lucky remainder of the day. Seriously though, don't pay with change.

Unfortunately, I am pretty sure we have all attempted some form of a good deed that we thought would help a situation and in reality all we did was hurt it. However, I believe as long as we strive not to remove tickets from car windshields, lie about the health conditions of others or pay for purchases with pennies, we will not be viewed as the worst nice person ever.

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