If you’re extra nice to folks around town, especially some of the merchants, it could be worth half a dozen donuts.
Strange Donuts owner Jason Bockman told St. Louis Magazine he wanted a way to reward people who “go above and beyond what is expected as a customer.” He came up with the ‘Polite Pass’ — good for half a dozen Strange Donuts.
Bockman printed hundreds of the coupons and distributed them to places where people sometimes aren’t very nice — like DMVs and banks, he told the magazine. Cashiers and tellers at the chosen establishments can hand them out to customers at their discretion.
A Strange Donuts employee at the Maplewood store on Thursday had no Polite Passes in the shop. She said they were all out there — she didn’t know where — with none returned so far.
So next time you’re at, say, Citizens National Bank, for example (but who’s not nice there?), if you’re extra nice you might earn some Strange Donuts.
I guess you haven’t been in my line. Come and see my name is Pam and I am a talker. I mostly work days. But I do know what you are saying about some of our cashiers, but not all of us are like that. Hope to meet you all soon!
What a nice idea! We need more folks to think like them.
They need some smiles at Shop N Save, clerks there are always down in the mouth. Can’t get a smile out of them. I guess they don’t appreciate a paycheck.
I don’t find that to always be true. If you ask them how they are doing and try to make small talk, they are generally pretty interactive.