Lovely Poem I Just Found..

[Patsy33]

Smiling is infectious,
you catch it like the flu,
When someone smiled at me today,
I started smiling too.

I passed around the corner
and someone saw my grin.
When he smiled I realized
I'd passed it on to him.

I thought about that smile,
then I realized its worth.
A single smile, just like mine
could travel round the earth.

So, if you feel a smile begin,
don't leave it undetected.
Let's start an epidemic quick,
and get the world infected!

[Baldric]

Ye-awn!

[Patsy33]

How rude!

[Mamyalynne]

Nice one, beats misery any day ♥

[Patsy33]

That's what I thought Mamya. We need cheering up. :-)

[maggiebee]

Love it Patsy x

[shoota]

I prefer the grin inane,
Makes people wonder if I'm sane
Or slightly mad.
But that's not bad
I'll just pass by and grin again.

[Patsy33]

Like that Shoota!. :-)

[gness]

Patsy...that's lovely.....as are smiles.....you see what happens when somebody is rude to you...or when a motorist makes a mistake and you have to stop or swerve....just smile and blow a kiss instead of being grumpy or beeping your horn....and the world's cheerier.....well for some of us..... ;-)

[shoota]

Your humble servant ma'am...

[gness]

You grin away, Shoota.....you may be insane or slightly mad....but you're lovely....... :-)

[Patsy33]

When I first seen it, I thought it was written by Spike Milligan. Apparently, this was one of many about smiling that he recited. Original author unknown.

[goodgoalie]

When I'm driving and not in a hurry, in heavy traffic I enjoy letting people out of side roads - just to see the shock, then gratitude, on their faces. Cheers me up, and I smile at them.

[Patsy33]

GG. I bet that makes their day. It must have a positive effect on people...

[davegosling]

I walked amongst the grumpy ones
A-smiling as I went
They gazed on me with scornful gaze
Their backs so hard and bent

I took my time and spake my rhyme
The best that I could muster
Yet nought upon my gaze did fall
And all I felt was bluster

I did my best to break their funk
While all did scorn my grin
They wondered why I felt so good
And thought it must be gin

"Be of good cheer and have no fear!"
Was all I had to tend
A day at odds with life, I fear,
Is difficult to spend

[jim360]

There was a young man from Tashkent...

[gness]

Go to bed now, Jim!.... ;-)

[shoota]

Ladies of a delicate disposition should not google that opening line...
;-)

[jim360]

I'd steer clear of the man from Nantucket too...

[Baldric]

///How rude! ///

It's just an opinion, to which I am entitled, it's a Public site to which we are all entitled to comment on.

[Mamyalynne]

As regards the man from Tashkent, I've seen the way he walks - always give him a wide berth.