"He's nice to me".
What exactly does that mean?
Does a snipet of "nice" transcend a man into anything more than a one second's worth?
I don't think anyone needs to know the situation here because it really doesn't matter. It's totally secondary. It's about how one man treats another publically, professionally and another ugly unveiling for the world to witness..
There are a lot of "nice" things said to people at a rope line. There are a lot of "nice" things said when autographs are signed and pictures are taken. I would hope that people can look past the "nice" and understand that being nice is simple a component of representing a sponsor. Some are actually "nice" because they are good people. Some people are extremely nice when they shake your hand with the right, and nicely stick a knife in your back with the left hand. Then there are some who a really not nice at all, but must summon up everything they have to fake it for a short time with the fans.
Just smiling and being nice doesn't impress me.
I see it different here.
Using the period where Doug lost his sons as people being nice isn't fair.
People can understand the pain that the man was going through, and NO person on Earth should have to endure that particular cruel hardship. I think people also felt horribly bad for Doug because he somehow was unaware of what was going on at home. But, how that loss hasn't helped him evolve into a different person is a little strange to me. This tour was about his boys, not "him".. That alone was telling to me. Even if he HATED Kevin P., he should have gotten through the year with the same passion for the mission for his boys without this selfish distraction. The message this year was about his boys, and how to save others in the same situation, and not about a qualifying slot.
"Nice" is done 24 X 7.
Nice is treating others with the same respect that you would like to be treated with as well.
Nice is not using your silver spoon position to look down on another man, and boy oh boy have we seen that before out of him.....
Nice is never embarrassing another in front of his piers.
"Nice" and "class" are the same thing here.
Doug doesn't seem to care about any of these things....
I know personally that being berative doesn't do anything other than bolsters one self image as some sort of badazz.
I don't know KP, never met him, but I can bet that like any hard working man, if he were treated with respect, offered encouragement instead of "holier than thou" attitude, and was told to "get-r-done" in a respectful and understanding way, he would have taken a bullet to get the man another win.. And, win they would have.....
Get it?
