We just can’t dodge bullets can we?
How on earth can someone giving a compliment be so defensive? My daughter is almost two and I still don’t know how to respond other than “thank you” when people say how pretty she is. Hell, she is, I didn’t have a damn thing to do with it, she looks just like her Daddy, but I can’t agree, because then I’d be vain, I can’t attribute it to the gene pool getting properly chlorinated, because of overly defensive people, I can offend even when trying desperately not to.
I had a woman (overweight) comment on my weight (underweight). She asked why I was so thin, I said I was lucky. She responded “Oh, you’ve always been that way?” And I said “No, my top weight was 185.” What happened, she says? I said, “I learned I couldn’t eat exactly what a 6’3” guy eats and stay thin."
After hearing the shit I hear all the time, knowing that some mean well and some are just freakin’ mean, I guess people should be really, really thankful we don’t respond honestly. I assure you, the response I wanted to give the girl was much, much worse than what I said.