Sometimes just a friendly smile and a kind word works to our own benefit.

Right now I'm sitting in a hotel in the midwest for a research study for the University of Michigan, actually I'm sitting in a jacuzzi IN my hotel room. The guy I'm working with and I have been on the road for the last four days, and this is our third hotel in as many days, and already have about forty hours of work under our belts and very little sleep. So when it comes to the tedium of packing up, checking out, driving, and checking in and unpacking we are a little less than enthusiastic and usually our moods reflect this. But today our spirits were unusually high and when we get to the new hotel I was uber friendly, possibly boarding on flirtacious with the woman checking us in. We were about an hour or two early from normal check-in time, so I figured the friendly approach was best. Our rooms were not ready yet, but I think our positive mood rubbed off on the lady at the front desk and she kind of looked around and looked at us and said, "I'll tell you what, let's just upgrade your rooms since those are ready now and you guys should be all set." My friend looks at me, gives me a half-hearted "that's cool" kinda look and we begin to lug our baggage towards the rooms. When I first entered the room it looked like your basic room that we've had many times before, but what the hell we're checked in at least, I thought. Just as I'm rounding the corner to throw my bags on the bed the phone rings to my left on the desk, but my eye is drawn to the right where, low and behold I see this ginormas jacuzzi. Sweetness. I throw my bags down and answer the phone where my friend is sounding like an excited kid in a candy store, "I've got this hot-tub in my room, how about you?"
The next two nights of working out in the cold and rain will be much more bearable now. So sometimes karma pays off when you are friendly to a stranger.