Service

June 24

I am thankful for service. Service means doing things for other people; service means making sure your customers are treated royally; service is going beyond the expected and required to guarantee the best treatment of a friend, customer, client, or charity.

This is an old service station in Pontchatoula, Louisiana that I came upon a couple of weeks ago. I don't know if they still have the service aspect of this station but it reminded me of the old service stations where the attendant filled your car up with gas, cleaned your windows, and checked your oil. It's noteworthy that the places where you get gasoline are now called gas stations rather than what they used to be called, service stations. Now it is strictly serlf serve. It's not like it's hard to fill your tank, or check your oil, or wash your windows, but it sure was nice when those things were  done, and it maybe cost thrity cents a gallon. Now it is ten times that with zero service. My how times have changed!

Even though service stations no longer exist, in business it is very important to remember that service along with quality products are the main things that will bring your customers back. In charity, service is how we repay the good that has befallen us.

service

service for yourself alone

is no way to live

service to others

is the way to give.

© rt tulley