A couple of days ago while I was out at the grocery store I ended up bumping into a man with my cart while I was preoccupied.
In the small town that I live in everyone is familiar with everyone, and once I started talking to this man I could tell that he was out of town.
In order to show how sorry I was for running over his foot with my cart I offered him a cup of coffee on me. We ended up going to the local coffee shop and starting a conversation, which led to us talking for nearly two hours. Apparently this wasn’t some ordinary person, but the owner of the number one ventilation heating and cooling company in the state. He told me that he was down here on business in order to set up another HVAC company in the area. Just before we shook hands and headed our separate ways he mentioned that the HVAC ventilation heating and cooling company in town had an influx of air conditioning units they needed to get rid of in a hurry. Without even having to ask he offered to hook me up with the best AC unit they had left, free of charge. This came to me at a perfect time as I had just moved to a different apartment in town that had an old and run down AC unit that was so loud I could never sleep at night. I have always been a chatty person who gets along with almost anyone, and I can say without a doubt that this is the first time this skill actually worked in my favor!