They do to me, some people I’ve met never rub people off on the wrong side, will always go out of their way to please EVERYONE they’re friends with, not just those who’re close friends, are seemingly interested in your well-being and 200 others.
I dunno, I don’t believe humans were designed for taking interest in so many people at once, I think those people have a complex for needing to be liked.
Of all the complexes to have, this one has one of the nicer results.
True, but sometimes I get the feeling of insincerety as they clearly can’t care for everyone equally.
Agreed. We are all neurotic in our own special way.
I tend to get suspicious that strangers are being condescending when they are unusually nice to me for no obvious reason, given that I’m paraplegic. (Yes, I should be more tolerant, but I am an extremely independent soul and if I react with my emotions rather than my intellect I can get rather hostile if people are “too nice”).
If someone is too nice to me then I’ll look to see if they’re selling something.
If I figure out what they’re selling I’ll just go along with it. If I don’t figure out what they’re selling I’ll still just go along with it.
Nice is nice, I’ll take it when I can get it.
I like to help people and have run into resistance as well. Sometimes they feel they don’t know me well enough or perhaps they want to do things themselves. I don’t take it personally. I try not to have ulterior motives but I will admit that it feels good to have someone thank you, so it’s not toally altruistic.
I’ve met some people who were genuinely nice people.
I’ve met some people who are nice with a motive.
I’ve met some people who are nice due to a need to be liked.
I guess my poorly structured point is that genuine niceness is a blessing. Nice with an agenda is not so nice.
I tend to be a skeptic and look for motives when perhaps none exist; however, I believe I’m a skeptic because I’m right more than not about hidden motives.
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I also meant to say that I fight my natural tendency to be skeptical. I make a consious effort to accept people as they present themselves on the surface. I try to find the best in people.
What was the question again? 
I come across as overly nice to people who don’t know me well. I also come across as flirty to people who don’t know me well. Over all, I’m a very happy person. I genuinely enjoy life and I think that spreads into my interactions with other people. Once people know me a bit better, or even just longer, they see my occasional bad days. I’ve never considered the fact that I might come off as insincere. I know there was one chick in high school who didn’t like me because I was “too damn chipper”, but she was one of those angst-ridden teenagers who actively searched for reasons to dislike her peers.
I don’t know where I’m going with this post. I guess I don’t question people who seem genuinely interested when they make small talk at the grocery store. I figure that they’re like me and they wouldn’t talk if they didn’t give a damn.
I know more than one person with a messiah complex.
I know more than one person who’s gotten in over their head, trying to walk on water.
(But who am I to point fingers? I resemble that remark, myself.)
What is this “nice” you are talking about? I don’t think I’ve ever had that problem in my life!!
OP, by any chance are you really good-looking?
I’ve met quite a few “nice” people over the years, only to find later that they have a foul temper, an unfortunate wife-beating habit, or various other stuff.
I can be sunny and polite where necessary, but I default to “grump” and I think most of my friends are fellow grumps.
I’ve known or come across a few people over the years who are friendly with everyone and try to appear as being always nice. In knowing them longer, I have found them either exceedingly shallow (in other words, there’s nothing behind the fascade) or they’re only nice when they’re first getting to know you, and can be exceedingly nasty in small and ‘less than obvious to observers’ ways once they get to know you and have pidgeonholed you as being a certain way.
So now I just treat these people as social butterflies and allow them to flit about on their merry way without putting any stock into them staying in my life.
I’m with TLD here. I’ve known seemingly nice people who are eager to please everyone they meet, yet in the privacy of their own home with their families, they’re tyrants.
MissMossie I hate to say it but overly happy people creep me out even more than overly helpful people. I don’t know what it is but it just doesn’t seem natural to be that happy all the time. I’m sure you would be the exception. 
So it’s come to this.
That’s why Mormons freak me the hell out.
A few years ago I went with my buddy to his church and everyone there was so nice and helpful. They asked me questions and really seemed to care what I had to say in response.
They maybe were trying to recruit me, but they came across as genuine.
I imagine that if people who come across overly happy weird you out, then I would probably weird you out. That’s okay. Not everybody has to get along. Not every personality type is going to match up with every other personality type.
The thing is, though, I don’t actually think that I’m overly happy. I just don’t seem to let little things get me down as much as other people. I focus a lot of the positive aspects of my life and actively try to have my neutral face be a smile. That last bit is because my neutral face when I was in elementary school apparently looked like a frown. Teachers were constantly asking what was wrong. I do have my bad days like everyone else. Last Wednesday, I found out the student I’ve been tutoring twice a week since the beginning of January got a thirty-five on the last test. That combined with living with a rather self-centered sister was really getting me down. I was not a happy camper. Stuff like that will bum me out. Traffic, annoying coworkers, and slow people in the grocery store, not so much.
I guess where I’m going as far as the OP is that my surface personality may resemble a too-nice, too-happy, and too-helpful person. While my want to be nice, happy, and helpful is genuine, there’s a whole hell of a lot more to me. I imagine that most people who also seem too whatever are the same.
I thought of a person like this right away. I’ve known several in my life, but there is one in my workplace currently. He’s been here a few years and seems very genuine to me. The one thing I don’t like about these types of people is that after you talk to them for a while, you go away feeling like they’re your new best friend, then ten minutes later you hear them talking with someone else and you realize they make everyone feel special.
As for the current one, I did see him get mad once, when he was asked to do something unreasonable at work, and when everyone realized that Mr. Sunshine was actually pissed, there was some serious scurrying going on. It was scary.
It’s called “The Ned Flanders Syndrome.” There’s something about niceness that is just suspicious and downright irritating.