Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. Life can be rather interesting.

Things can be going quite well and then all of a sudden something happens and we say,

oh my goodness, what am I to do with this?

Actually, we probably don't say it quite that nicely.

We probably use expletives and get pretty upset.

I mean, we see it all the time. My son got his first real job recently and he's a host at a restaurant and he talks about how people come to the restaurant and they're in such good moods or, and then they have to wait a little while for the

table because he works at a popular restaurant.

So most of the people that come there have made reservations, but of course there are people

called Walkins who just want to get a table and don't have a reservation.

But I'm sure in their minds are thinking, we're hungry, we want to eat, we're going to pay for

this food, so get us a table.

They start off in a good mood. but the longer they have to wait, their

attitude changes because things aren't going as they expected. They expected a table and now

they're having to wait, and sometimes for quite a while.

So we describe how some of the people will actually leave quite angry and say really derogatory

things towards him and stomp out of the restaurant. Now we as bystanders can kind of laugh at this

and say well that's silly what's wrong with them they should have made reservations and

even if they didn't make reservations they should be willing to wait.

We all know that because life doesn't always go as we expect.

But the question is, are we any different?

I mean, we have our plans, life is going as we expect, then all of a

sudden it isn't. It's almost as if this is a law of nature that we aren't going to

...