San Luis Obispo was featured on Yahoo News on Thanksgiving… in a report on the new book on Happiness…” Thrive” I spoke about in an earlier post. We’ve been getting quite a bit of PR from this book actually.
So the other day I was riding my bike up Monterey St…. and a happy couple came out of the“Petit Soleil” Bed and Breakfast… smiling like people in the “male enhancement” ads on TV. (John… the owner of Petit Soleil was interviewed in Thrive… and his business was talked about.) So here are these two smiling tourists… on Saturday morning… having probably just read Thrive and driven here from elsewhere the night before… on a happiness exploration mission no doubt… having had a scone and a few cups of great coffee at the nicest B and B in town (I know about the coffee because my buddy Randy’s office used to be right behind Petit Soleil and we would go over and weasel free cups)… anyway… here are these two tourists… holding hands and smiling ridiculously as they walk down the sidewalk past the coin shop and the place that used to sell bean-bag chairs… Gleeful in that they are in the happiest place in America…
I approach them from the other direction… quietly in my head thinking: ” Uh oh…here come the happiness tourists”
So I smiled back at them… and waved and said good morning in an overly enthusiastic Stepford Wives manner…
Which was received quite well actually…. They must have thought I was a very nice fellow.
And then a couple of seconds later a college kid in an amazingly loud diesel dual cab Dodge pickup… cut me off at the corner…
Karma!
unlicensed architect, ex-skateboarder, planning commissioner, shoe designer, all around dork
