well yossarian i must admit there's some truth to that, but i have a shorthaired collie that everyfifth person smiles at, and also my mother was born in marseille france, so i'm not 100% swedish..but actually, if you smile at somebody, he/she mostly smiles back...and the opposite...and finally to my question..where do you actually live? must be a nice place where pple are smiling a lot in public???