3 weeks later

(approximately; it is actually slightly less than three weeks)

3 weeks later, that encounter that I wrote a post about (which is how I know it was around 3 weeks ago) is still apparently making an impression on me. So much so that I have decided to write a handwritten note on a card regarding said incident. Incident seems like it has a bit of a negative connotation, so maybe the word 'event' or 'occasion' or 'encounter' is more apt. This note is a compliment and I am going to mail it and hopefully it will reach its intended recipient. The compliment is about the occasion (covered in the previously mentioned post) when I was walking outside of a store and a police officer walked by in the opposite direction and I looked at him and he smiled at me. And I was very pleased by that and I still am quite pleased by that even weeks after the event. So I figured that I might as well attempt to compliment this officer. A few days ago I looked at the county website for when you want to complain about the bus service, for one thing, or otherwise find out about county related things like recycling bins, for example. However it was down for maintenance so I had to wait a few days and only now did I get back to that. For bus service complaints, you can submit them via an online form and I thought that it would be the same for police officer compliments. However, it is not and apparently the way to send in a compliment must be done via the mail. There are addresses provided to mail the compliment to and that's what I'm doing. Apparently, after they received my complimentary letter I am supposed to get a letter notifying me of that. So I think that will be interesting, theoretically. Again, hopefully the compliment gets to who it's supposed to get to and hopefully he is pleased because he got a complimentary letter and perhaps it will encourage him to continue to smile at random people and perhaps those other people will also feel compelled to write in complimentary letters and so on. I think the last part is the least likely to happen because I feel like other people probably do not feel compelled to write in complimentary letters to police officers because they got smiled at by one. However that event made my day and could even possibly make my month of February, which seems quite likely, considering this post. Thankfully I made a note of this police officer's name from his name tag when I was looking at him as I walked by him. That way the compliment has a higher chance of getting to the right person instead of it being directed to some nameless police officer who happened to be at Walmart a few weeks ago.