Honk for Happiness!!!!

Sunday late afternoon and I'm on my way home from an Open House. An Open House that I, as a Realtor, hosted. And let me tell ya, I am one hell of a hostess. Let me back up a bit. I hold an open house every Sunday for various properties. I usually know about a week in advance what house I will be at. So during the week before the Open I'll create Market Updates for the neighborhood and hand deliver them to about 75 homes in the area. Then on the Friday before the Open House I will deliver Invitations to the same 75 homes letting them know about the Open House and Refreshments, and "come meet your neighbors", and blah, blah, blah! Come Sunday I leave a couple hours early so I can purchase cookies, and some kind of cheese and cracker platter. I have a big tin bucket of waters with the original label peeled off and my label slapped on (basically my business card in sticker form. God, I really sound like an ass-hole, don't I?)! I get to the house after putting out all my "OPEN HOUSE" signs and proceed to open all the doors, turn on all the lights, and set up the refreshments complete with cute little argyle paper napkins. Usually, I don't mind doing this AT ALL! In fact, I used to really enjoy it! But here's the reality: NOBODY COMES! All those neighbors that I've invited stay in their air conditioned homes while I sweat, try to keep flies of the food, and eat way too many cookies! Even on busy days, no one eats the food or takes the waters!!! I can't figure it out! Anyway, on this particular day I had gone to all this trouble with the food and water and whatnot. I did my hair and make-up, put on my dress and my heels and my smile and really felt like Barbie trying to sell the Barbie Dream House. Fake and plastic given how pissed off I was at the turn out! So I'm driving home with a tin full of waters and a platter of sweating cheese, soft crackers, and hardened meat to feed my family. As I approach a red light I notice a group of people holding up signs on the corners of either side of the street. I'm expecting some kind of Car Wash to support Your Local Chapter of Something or Other but no.....It's a group of girls with big stupid grins on their faces holding home-made signs asking motorists to Honk for Happiness! They have painted flowers and peace signs and all kinds of out-dated shit all over these signs and they look so fucken stupid I can't believe it! And I thought I was the ass-hole. I look over at the opposite corner and lo and behold there's another group doing the same thing! Except this group has something a little extra special! A boy in a straw hat and guitar! He's so goddamned happy I could shoot him! The whole scene tickles my funny bone. The absurdity of it makes me want to laugh but I don't dare smile outright because I don't want them to think they've accomplished anything with ME! I don't know about you, but I only honk when I'm pissed!