Fried Green Tomatoes
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The article that I chose to write about was called, "The positive attitude makes difference." which was written by Doris Wild Helmering. She tells her story about being cut off and what she did to have a positive attitude. One thing I like about the article was how she dealt with the situation.
After being cut off, a man gave her a smirk like it was funny. When that had happened to her she remembered a scene in the movie " Fried Green Tomatoes" where two young girls do the same thing to Kathy Bates, .The girls laugh and yell out the window, "Face it, lady, we are younger and faster." Kathy Bates sits there a minute and then backs her car up and rams the girls' car a number of times. When the girls start shouting at her to stop, she says smugly, "Face it, girls, I am older and I got more insurance." What had allowed her to laugh instead of scowl was the way she thought about the situation...