# "I'm blessed with great genes..." **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 13, 2007, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-blessed-with-great-genes/415445 "2007-08-13T15:41:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 38
**Author:** ![Auntbeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Auntbeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Auntbeast)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-blessed-with-great-genes/415445/38 "2007-08-14T01:26:42Z")
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. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-blessed-with-great-genes/415445)._