I was recently in New York City with my wife. We were celebrating an
anniversary and having a good time!
We rode around the city in one of the double-decker open top buses,
which was a lot of fun!
One day when we were riding around the city we decided to hop off of
the bus and walk for a little while. Which was fine, even though it
was a hot day.
We saw the food cart on a corner and we stopped to get some water. Of
course the water was way more than it should've been, but in the city
and it was a hot day and we needed water we paid the price. Four
dollars each for two bottles of water came to e-books so I gave the
guy to fives.
The guy who was not a native English speaker look through his money in
the cart and told me that he didn't have any change and asked if I
wanted something else. I was puzzled but instead of getting worked up
I just went with it and asked him how much or what I could get for two
dollars. It took us about a minute to understand each other but he
finally got it and he dug in the back of the cold space in his heart
and came up with a ginger ale that was ice cold. He said to dollar
and I said okay and my wife and I enjoyed in ice cold ginger ale as we
walked down the streets of Manhattan. And then we drink our water to.
I thought that was really adaptive of the guy. And I was kind of glad
I just went with it which is something I tend to do more and more now.
If I run into something that I really don't want to do I just don't do
it. Which is a big change from the way I used to be.
I love progress! And I love adapting to the situation. Period.
