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He was packing<\/strong>
\nEnough courtesy<\/strong>
\nIn a singular hi<\/strong>
\nMore sow<\/strong>
\nThan a jillion marketers<\/strong>
\nShooting their wad of scripts<\/strong><\/p>\n

Most people seem to be in a hurry most of the time.\u00a0 This poem is about courtesy and curtness.\u00a0 This short poem was inspired by a telephone call from the American Red Cross asking me to donate platelets since I was eligible three days after my recent whole blood donation.\u00a0 The telemarketer, blood donor recruitment associate, or whatever he might have been called, called nicely enough.\u00a0 After thanking me for my 48 blood donations, I indicated to him that I intended to stick with my long-successful strategy of donating a few times a year.\u00a0 His script was replete with ingratiations alternating with asks.\u00a0 I’ve asked a number of times before for the Red Cross to stop calling me 58 days after each donation.\u00a0 They managed to call me after 38 days.\u00a0 This being the third poem I wrote today, I had a couple of minutes to spare, so I listened to the short end of his shtick.\u00a0 What caught my attention was the well-designed courtesy sounding a byte like a 33-record played at 45 (a reference for you old folks).\u00a0 I suspect his worth is valued more by the number of calls rather than their quality.\u00a0 As a patient in his hospitality, I wish him productive heeling.\u00a0 Needle-less to say, I felt a bit like I was in a lineup for someone trying to break a whirled record for the most thank yous in a day.\u00a0 Such experiences capture my issue with our fixation on quantity over quality — probably because it’s easier to be measured.\u00a0 Personally, I practice hearty greetings, even to replete strangers.<\/p>\n

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