Little Happier: In Line to Order Soup, a Funny “Curb Your Enthusiasm” Moment Brought Strangers Together

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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While ordering her soup, a woman was being a very difficult customer. When she was able to laugh at herself, she transformed the experience for the people around her. Get in touch: podcast@gretchenrubin.com Follow on social media: @GretchenRubin on YouTube @GretchenRubin on TikTok @GretchenRubin on Instagram @GretchenRubin on Threads Get the podcast show notes by email every week: happiercast.com/shownotes Get Gretchen Rubin’s newest book Life in Five Senses to see how she discovered a surprising path to a life of more energy, creativity, luck, and love: by tuning in to the five senses. Now available - order here. Visit Gretchen's website to learn more about Gretchen's best-selling books, products from The Happiness Project Collection, and the Happier app. Happier with Gretchen Rubin is part of ‘The Onward Project,’ a family of podcasts brought together by Gretchen Rubin—all about how to make your life better. Check out the other Onward Project podcasts— Side Hustle School and Happier in Hollywood. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What happens now? How will I cope? How will I cope?
0:06.0	Sometimes you don't want to talk about cancer, the people you know.
0:10.0	You just want to talk to someone who knows how you feel.
0:14.4	That's why I joined the Macmillan online community.
0:17.8	We know what it's like because we're living with cancer too.
0:22.2	And whatever's on your mind, we're living with cancer too.
0:26.0	And whatever's on your mind, we're here to help. To join us, search Macmillan online community.
0:30.0	I'm Gretchen Rubin, and this is a little happier.
0:34.0	Recently I re-read my book The Happiness Project.
0:38.0	I'm very excited to be doing the Happiness Project Revisited course
0:42.0	to help people do their own
0:42.8	happiness projects this year and as part of that course I'm doing another
0:46.6	happiness project myself so I reread the book to prepare. This was an
0:52.0	interesting experience on many levels, but one thing that was nice was that
0:56.6	it jogged my memory about many happy or funny stories that I'd sort of forgotten.
1:02.0	A funny story that I forgot that I remembered
1:04.6	was something that happened one day
1:06.3	when I was stuck in a slow moving line at a soup place.
1:10.2	Two older women at the head of the line
1:12.1	were taking a long time to make their selections.
1:15.2	Can I try the spicy lentil? asked one woman.
1:18.8	It was one of those places where you can get a sample before you order.
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