How To Lead a More Thoughtful and Empathetic and Kinder Lifestyle

---Turn the fan on when you are cooking an aromatic dish inside your own rental apartment unit. This will spare tenants in adjoining apartment units from their being subjected to excessive cooking aromas that they themselves might NOT regard as pleasant to their own nostrils.

---Remove the lint from the lint bin of the dryer immediately after you have used a dryer at a public laundrymat. This is considerate toward the next person who seeks to use that same dryer.

----Have the exact change you need for riding a bus already in your hand minutes BEFORE you board that metro-area public bus service as a passenger. This reduces the total stop time needed at that bus stop, which also enhances the bus driver's ability to meet his assigned time schedule for that bus route. This also means that you and the other passengers in that bus can reach your and their destination sooner.

----If you are sitting next to a friendly acquaintance or friend and you happen to be reading the newspaper, ask that individual if he would like you to give him or lend him a section of the newspaper (the financial section, for instance) that you yourself have already read or don't plan to look at.

----If you directly observe actual evidence that any person you know about is possibly or apparently being victimized by one or more felony crimes that are being perpetrated against him by one or more apparent suspects, call 911 or some reputable law-enforcement agency, such as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security or the Federal Bureau of Investigation or the Texas Rangers Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety state agency, to report that crime evidence. Your crime tip report could help to save the life of the cited crime victim!

---When you enter a public restroom that has two toilet stalls, one of them designed to accommodate handicapped persons and the other stall not equipped to serve handicapped persons, make use of the smaller, regular toilet stall if you yourself are not handicapped. This will leave the other toilet stall open for use by a handicapped person.

----Ask each of your closest friends to please tell you their birthdate. That factual information from each of them gives you the opportunity each year to purchase a thoughtful "Happy Birthday" greeting card for each of your closest friends that you can present to them or mail to them in time for their birthday.