I do my damnedest to be nice on the phone. I had to call today to make payment arrangements on an electric bill that went to collections (I left the electric in my name for my bitch renter... she was my mom's -now former- friend and fucked me out of $7k, including not paying the electric bill and never telling me, I didn't find out till June it had been disconnected in January and just didn't have the energy to deal with the collections until now, it was already on my credit so why bother?).

Anyway, I briefly explained to the guy on the other end why my bill hadn't been paid and talked to him a bit while he was looking up my info and he ended up giving me a HUGE deal on a payoff. Almost half off the bill. Probably just because I wasn't a total bitchface. The longer we talked the more he kept taking off. He also reduced the amount my payments needed to be so they'd be easier to pay. Overall he was really nice and when we first got on the phone he seemed a little stiff.

The guy even thanked me for being nice. He said he gets my situation a lot and that he understood how frustrating it is and that I was one of the nicest callers he'd had in a long time. lol

I just learned early on that you catch more flies with honey.... those sayings are around for a reason and 99.9% of the time if you are super sweet and not a bitchface people will go out of their way to help you out. Even cops have let me go just for not being a total bitch.

I'm not totally selfish either. I just know how much crap people give customer service reps and they EXPECT things from them and cops get shit on the worst of anyone. I wouldn't want someone treating me like that and I do my best to be nice even when I'm angry. It's not THEIR fault, it's mine. I was stupid and let someone else fuck up my credit and I have a lead foot and deserve it almost every time I get pulled over. I'll take what I deserve and be nice because at the end of the day, what goes around comes around.

On the topic of Mooseknuckles:
Valo wrote:
I totes googled it. While on campus in a public space surrounded by students.

Balls. I haz them.
Timid Wild One wrote:
^Balls. You saw them.