Why Smile? When a person doesn’t smile people automatically think there is something terribly wrong. It’s even gained a nickname, “Resting Bitch Face, “ meaning the natural face you make when you are not smiling could ultimately be you’re down fall. In Amy Cunningham’s essay, “Why Women Smile,” she discusses that smiling has been a big part of our lives since infancy but as we grow older it turns into something bigger, when we are not smiling we are brooding and it is in fact, a myth. It is true that smiling is looked upon differently all over the world, in fact, in one story I heard once, a women went around smiling at people in the Middle East and a man came up to her thinking she was a hooker, meanwhile when traveling to the Mid-West
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Smiling, however, has always stuck out, probably because it’s something Americans are known for. When I was in seventh grade I was lucky enough to go to Europe for spring break. We spent one week in Prague, in the Czech Republic. We went to so many old churches, castles, and farmers markets. As beautiful as it was to see the timeless history and magnificent architecture, the people there stood out the most. Of course not in a bad way, but their body language is different from ours, how they walked, carried themselves, more importantly the lack of the constant smile and how normal it was. Walking through the streets and seeing people not smiling every time their eyes met with another’s. You would stand out if you did, and could defiantly tell who was a …show more content…
When I worked in the bakery at Safeway, during staff meetings we were always reminded to smile when you greet customers. Smile even when they are not looking at you, because that one-second that they don’t see you smiling could determine whether or not they ever come back. “You are the face of the company,” they’d always tell us, “You are what the customer sees.” However, when you were smiling, looking like there were no problems at home and showed too much happiness, people would complain. We used to get complaints that the bakery looked like they were having ”too much fun.” We were still attending to the customers needs, got them what ever they wanted, but if we showed too much happiness it was crossing the line, how dare we look like we were trying to make the best out of a bad
Smiling, however, has always stuck out, probably because it’s something Americans are known for. When I was in seventh grade I was lucky enough to go to Europe for spring break. We spent one week in Prague, in the Czech Republic. We went to so many old churches, castles, and farmers markets. As beautiful as it was to see the timeless history and magnificent architecture, the people there stood out the most. Of course not in a bad way, but their body language is different from ours, how they walked, carried themselves, more importantly the lack of the constant smile and how normal it was. Walking through the streets and seeing people not smiling every time their eyes met with another’s. You would stand out if you did, and could defiantly tell who was a …show more content…
When I worked in the bakery at Safeway, during staff meetings we were always reminded to smile when you greet customers. Smile even when they are not looking at you, because that one-second that they don’t see you smiling could determine whether or not they ever come back. “You are the face of the company,” they’d always tell us, “You are what the customer sees.” However, when you were smiling, looking like there were no problems at home and showed too much happiness, people would complain. We used to get complaints that the bakery looked like they were having ”too much fun.” We were still attending to the customers needs, got them what ever they wanted, but if we showed too much happiness it was crossing the line, how dare we look like we were trying to make the best out of a bad