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A few weeks ago I was at Home Depot with my husband. We were looking for dock parts for our dock. We approached the customer service desk, and a big, robust burly man with a beard came out and approached us.
My husband kindly asked, “Do you know if you carry Tommy Dock parts?”
“No, I don’t think we do,” said the salesman. “If we do, you’ll find them over in the garden center.”
I was thinking. The garden center? This guy doesn’t know what he is saying and I don’t even think he believes himself! I didn’t believe this guy had a clue, so I probed him further.
I looked up at him and said, “How confident are you that you don’t have Tommy Dock parts?”
He looked at me and said, “50 percent certain.”
I retorted, “So, really, you don’t know. It’s just a toss up.”
Yeah, this man was confident. Not. I believe it was his choice of words, and his manner of speaking that alerted me to his lack of self-confidence and lack of belief in what he was saying.
When someone says “I believe” it usually means they don’t know for sure — or that they aren’t confident in their answer. Then when the customer service guy said it was in the garden center — the placement of parts was all wrong — and my second alarm bell went off. In other stores, we had seen the parts in the lumber department. And third, his facial expression nailed it for me. It wasn’t strong and confident. His face revealed his doubt.
I said to my husband he was lucky I questioned that guy and saw through him because otherwise we would have tracked back and forth across the entire store twice before we had an answer. Trekking from the garden center to the lumber yard and back was like a two mile hike!
Instead, I went and asked a second person in the lumber department. I got a quick, confident answer. The guy said to me they did have at one time, but not anymore. He explained it was indeed once in the lumber department — but because they didn’t sell but one part in a season, they discontinued it.
Ha!
Answer found. Time saved. The benefits of reading people, knowing if they believe what they are saying or not! While the guy didn’t lie and he utlimately was right — he truly didn’t have a clue. He was going to send us on a goose chase looking in the garden center — wondering if they had them. The garden center would have sent us back to the lumber yard and we would have gone mad!
There haven’t been any good stories to write about lately!
It’s good news that there is no bad news but I hate the down time.
I love a good story, a good mystery where lie detecting is useful!!
It’s my passion.
Tips, leads, stories are always, always welcome!
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Michael Schiavo was on Dateline in his first interview since Terri Schiavo’s death one year ago.
Michael Schiavo is a “fighter” as he put it. But I believe he is more than that. He is a man who has to win at all costs…and will do anything in his power to win. Right or wrong do not matter.
Michael Schiavo is also a master manipulator of facts to paint the picture white in his favor. He does it time and time again. Michael Schiavo told Dateline that he would never have given custody of Terri to the Schindlers because her father said “he would cut her arms and legs off”.
Really? He said just that?
Dateline, thankfully, corrected Michael Schiavo, and set the record straight. The truth was, the Schinlders said, if Terri got gangrene, they would still want her to live even if they had to cut her arms and legs off. Michael Schiavo had no problem telling half the story to make the Schindlers look evil, and himself a saint. This speaks volumes about Michael Schiavo.
I personally don’t trust Michael Schiavo. I think Michael Schiavo lacks normal emotions, a conscience, and furthermore, I believe he doesn’t have the ability to empathize or sympathize for any other living creature outside of himself.
When Michael Schiavo said the following on Dateline, I didn’t believe him:
Among his accusations is that Terri’s family, including her father, demanded the money from a malpractice award. “(Micahel Schiavo said) First, he asked when the money was coming down, and then he asked me, ‘How much money am I going to get?”’ Schiavo told Dateline.
(Michael Schiavo) I said. … ‘I’m giving it all to Terri.’ Then with some anger in his voice, he pointed at Terri and said, ‘Well, how much is she going to give me?’ She’s not going to give you anything. That money is entrusted with a guardian. (source: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=1771858&page=1)
I suspect the truth is that the Schindlers wanted the malpractice money to go to Terri’s care. I am sure there was a confrontation, and I am pretty confident Michael Schiavo is forgetting half of the conversation–manipulating it again to make the Schindlers look evil.
Michael Schiavo went on to say on Dateline that he offered the Schindlers an agreement where he would hand over the money to a charity, but they never agreed. Michael Schiavo never showed any care for Terri, and the Schindlers knew it. Of course, they didn’t want the money to go to a charity. They wanted that money for Terri’s care!
The part of this whole story that concerns me the most is the fact that Michael Schiavo had no problem with Terri having a feeding tube and being in a vegetative state for three full years. It was only after he got the malpractice money that he suddenly “cared” for Terri. He cared to get her out of his life–once and for all.
If he truly wanted to honor Terri’s wishes, he couldn’t have handled letting her suffering for three full years! I don’t believe Michael Schiavo cared about Terri. The Schindlers, however, have showed a lot of caring and compassion for their daughter even in the face of great adversity.
MSNBC.com has new details on the case. Watch the video here: