Are You Nice?

[auntpolly]

I'm a NY kind of nice -- brutally honest, in your face, not shy kind of nice. I am VERY friendly, LOVE people but am very private in my own world. I'm rarely not smiling so people THINK I'm nicer than I am but I can be the hardest, toughest human being you've ever dealt with.

I love this kind of nice! When I lived in Philly, people were like this, and honestly, sorry you people in the midwest, but I think that as abrasive as Philly people seemed, they were so much nicer than people in the midwest -- because they are more genuine.

 

[luvflorida]

"I want you to be nice until it's time to not be nice."

Just a quote from a silly movie but it's true.

I don't know what movie this is from, but I like it and agree with it!

 

[Towncrier]

My niece and nephews refer to me as "mean old uncle John", so I guess the answer to the original question must be NO.

 

[auntpolly]

My niece and nephews refer to me as "mean old uncle John", so I guess the answer to the original question must be NO.

oh, I'm sure they mean that in the nicest possible way!!!!

 

[spacemountain]

I think it's hard for me to say myself if I'm nice. I'd like to think I am. I am always very sweet to people until they attack me or my family or friends. Then watch out

 

[need_a_Disney_fix]

I am a very nice person, but like a previous poster, as I am aging I am getting ALOT more cynical and can finally tell someone off if I need to. I get tired of taking crap from people and being pooped on.

 

[Bbgrizzle]

I try to be nice. I hope I come across that way.

 

[auntpolly]

I try to be nice. I hope I come across that way.

We all know you just put those adorable little girls in your signature to make you seem all nice and everything!!!! (they really are adorable.)

 

[Minniespal]

I'm naughty and nice.

 

[MosMom]

I'm a little ray of sunshine!

 

[Disney Doll]

I think I am nice, but not to the point of being stupid where people take advantage of me.

 

[BeckWhy]

I will not lie... I am a bad word that starts with a b. I am nice to people I don't know... like I'll see a family in the mall and the kids will be dressed alll cute or whatever and I'll smile at them. But usually I'm a witch. I don't like people much. HAHA I'm working on it though.

 

[jimmalru80]

To quote Toby from "The West Wing", "even on my sunniest days, I'm not the nicest person to be around".

 

[SandraVB79]

My signature line on my email accounts is: It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

But still, I'm not nice. First of all because I'm shy (in real life). I will not easily talk to people I don't know. You know, even in the golf club, if there are people I just know a little bit, I almost never say "hi" when I arrive, just because I'm too shy for that.
Next to that, once I do dare to talk to them, I say what I think. I' not good in smalltalk, I'm not good in saying things they want to hear but I don't agree with. If I like someone, they'll know, if I don't like someone, they will also know it.

 

[Robinrs]

I love this kind of nice! When I lived in Philly, people were like this, and honestly, sorry you people in the midwest, but I think that as abrasive as Philly people seemed, they were so much nicer than people in the midwest -- because they are more genuine.

It's the kind of 'NICE' I'm used to! If you think the midwest is bad try coming to the south were lying is considered "hospitality"....

 

[Feralpeg]

I like to think I'm nice. I do try to think of others and do what I can when I can. I don't set out to do things, they just sort of happen.

Then again, if nice is never having unkind thoughts, I guess that would eliminate me. While I really try to see things from the perspective of others, I find it more and more difficult. Either I'm getting old and less tolerant or the world is changing. I spend so much time around crowds so I probably see more negative incidents than most. These things make me sad.

 

[Laurajean1014]

I think I'm nice, but at times my husband may have choose an alternate catagory for me!

 

[Tigger&Belle]

No, I don't think so either, but there are those people that are just so much more calm and accepting than I am, that don't get worked up when someone cuts them off in traffic or whatever.

Someone cuts me off in traffic, I'm screaming "You idiot". People who I consider nice just kind of laugh and shrug and thing, "Maybe they are in a big hurry or are just distracted."

I couldn't figure out why my 6yo thought that "Ace" was a bad word. He thought that we weren't allowed to say Ace's name from American Idol. Then yesterday I was driving, making a left turn on a protected left turn and a guy cutting into my lane coming from the opposite way. I yelled, "Ace, stay out of my way, c'mon, Ace..." Then I started laughing, realizing how I sounded to Jake.

I'm not normally seriously mad when that happens unless I think someone is really being a jerk and I assume that someone isn't paying attention, but when I know they can't hear me I do yell stuff. I just need to remember that my 6yo can hear me.

Maybe I should put my adorable kids in my signature so I appear nicer!

 

[MushyMushy]

I love this kind of nice! When I lived in Philly, people were like this, and honestly, sorry you people in the midwest, but I think that as abrasive as Philly people seemed, they were so much nicer than people in the midwest -- because they are more genuine.

I once knew a woman from Philly who prided herself on her "honesty," but I think there's a line you draw between being honest and having some tact. Just as an example, when I was pregnant with my first, I'd bought this shirt that was white with big black dots on it. When this woman saw me, the first thing out of her mouth was, "You look like a cow!" This came on top of her constantly teasing me about my weight gain. Her excuse was, "I'm from Philly and we're blunt there."



I've met plenty of people from Philly since then, and they've been perfectly nice.

 

[MosMom]

I once knew a woman from Philly who prided herself on her "honesty,"

When I first read this, it started out sounding like a nasty rhyme...

I once knew a woman from Philly....who I later found out had a willy

You know something like that.