Relate an incident in your life where you made the other person smile because you said 'please ' or ‘thank you’.
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My first day of college I was 16. I had to drive in on a moped as there was no other affordable way for me to get there due to a combination of circumstances. It was one of my first rides driving into a city (though I'd had practised beforehand). I'd been told that I could park it anywhere in the college car park free of charge. So I got there a little bit late, I was in a rush to get in so I didn't have a bad first impression in an entirely new place, parked it in the car park and went into college.
About halfway through the day I was in an introduction talk where they finally said, "by the way, the train station car park is attached to the college car park so make sure you don't park there else you'll get fined". Immediately I started panicking, got outside and found I'd been clamped.
My new lecturer was helpful, calling the man that had clamped it whilst I tried desperately not to panic. Soon a bald, thin man with a sharp nose turned up and declared I'd have to pay a £200 fine. I didn't have £200, and neither did my parents. We were very poor at the time.
I started crying as I told him we didn't have £200, I couldn't help it. He suggested relatives, but all of my relatives are dead apart from my immediate family and have been since before I was born. We'd had to hire the moped with a company and to me there was utterly no doubt that this meant we'd end up having to pay extortionate amounts of money to reimburse the company for whatever happened to the moped. I already knew I wouldn't be able to go to college anymore as a result.
Eventually my parents managed to do a deal with the moped company so they'd pay for the clamp to be removed and we'd slowly pay them back. I knew this would not be good for my parent's finances. The clamp was removed and I eventually managed to get home. I was able to continue going to college, but we didn't eat well for a while.
It was so emotionally intense that even now I still feel slightly sick when I think about it. I had made the WORST possible first impression to my new class, new lecturers, new everything when I started crying in front of them like a pathetic little girl. I hated myself for it, I hated the clamper. Whenever I parked my moped after that I constantly worried about it. In the end I also hated that little machine.
From the clamping incident I realised that the world wasn't as nice as I had thought. People weren't nice. Up until then I'd been a kid, oblivious to what reality was actually like. That was my wake up call, that not even a little girl's honest mistake on the first day of college stops other people from taking her for money she doesn't have - money the clamper knew perfectly well she didn't have. I took the most critical world of the world possible. Everybody wants something from you, so look after number one. I'm also not jumping through hoops to get a car as a direct result of that.
I'm not sure what the clamping man was thinking when a small 16-year-old girl who couldn't get home was crying in front of him sobbing that nobody she knew to call had £200, but I hope he felt guilty.
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