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totally missed the boat on the other driver’s insurance company.

The city speed limit is 50km. I ended up getting 50 percent less than I would have from the other guy’s insurance company because I had insisted I was doing 55km.

It suddenly struck me that the traffic policeman had been trying to help me out. He hadn’t minded about the 5km; he had known something about the insurance that I had not.

I thought about what had happened again. I might have carried on insisting that I told the truth, but I could at least have said “Thank you” to him instead of acting so rudely. After all, he had been trying to help me out.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to let other people talk while you simply shut up and listen. Never forget – to hear, you have to be able to listen.

3.The happy kids of Holland

DUTCH teenagers are the happiest children in Europe and are also happier than American teens, according to a major international survey into the health and welfare of children between the ages of 11 and 15published in February.

The Health Behavior in School-Aged Children (HBSC) survey is commissioned by the World Health Organization and carried out every