Tycoon-ism: “I feel sorry for someone who has to win at everything.” – Anonymous
There was a couple at a restaurant who was arguing about almost everything and the woman seems to always get the last word on their arguments from the man’s driving to his choice of suit. Now in this restaurant, customers are requested to write down their orders on an order paper as this will be the basis of the waiters in taking their orders. While choosing between a chicken sandwich and soup the woman inadvertently wrote down chicken soup instead of the sandwich. When the soup arrived the woman as expected immediately complained and reiterated that she ordered the chicken sandwich. Without a word the waiter took the soup and returned with a sandwich together with the order slip with soup written on it. Realizing her mistake the woman immediately apologized and offered to pay for both the soup and sandwich but the waiter, ever courteous responded, “No, that’s perfectly alright. I’m just happy you’ve forgiven me for being right.”
There are some among us who hate to lose. And while this maybe a good idea when competing with ourselves, it is perceived as a defect when we compete with others when it never really was intended as a competition in the first place.
