An Experiment With Lemony Snicket Style Writing

"I'm a nice person. You can trust me." Nice is a word that here means, unlikely to beat you up and take all your things. It's a word that is supposed to mean the same as "kind" or "good," but as you will learn as you get older, "being nice" is anything but "kind" or "good." If someone insists that they are a "nice person," then they are only acting in a way to make other people like them. For example, if you got a horrible tattoo in the middle of your forehead, a nice person would say that they liked it, even if they don't. A kind person would gently point out that maybe the tattoo looks a little too much like a butt, helping the person avoid future jokes and mockery. It is considered very rude to disagree with others, as most will tell you, but by acting a way that helps other people succeed rather than making people like us, there will be fewer butt heads in the world.