15 September 2000
Submitted by eve on Fri, 09/15/2000 - 5:20pm. Ironic
"Excuse me, but I'd like to tell you that you smell good. No no, don't run, this is my stop, I'm leaving you alone, I promise, goodbye. I just wanted to tell you."
--A guy, late twenties, to a girl about 5 years younger than him, sitting next to him on BART
Now admittedly, I would have been a little unsettled too, but if you think about it, what a compliment-- how often do you sit next to someone on the subway and think "Wow, that person really smells... GOOD?"
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Posted by Anne Onymous on Thu, 01/10/2002 - 2:43pm.
Archived comment by Carrie:
I would like to add further, once a girl said I was courageous. I, of course her being a girl, I didn't think she was coming on to me. It made my day because I have a bad self-imagine. But just because a stranger tells me something like that doesn't me they're coming on to me.
Posted by Anne Onymous on Thu, 01/10/2002 - 2:34pm.
Archived comment by Carrie:
I don't think I would run, if it was me, after all if they had enough sense to tell me so then they deserve to hang around it for a while ::Smiles::
Posted by Anne Onymous on Sun, 12/16/2001 - 8:53am.
Archived comment by Simon:
Sad comment on our culture that you can't compliment a stranger without being thought of as a pervert.
Posted by Anne Onymous on Mon, 12/10/2001 - 10:28pm.
Archived comment by Saint:
I was once followed around a video store by a woman who finally stopped me and asked what kind of perfume I wore. Since I don't wear perfume, it was somewhat embarrassing for both of us. Ever since, I've wondered what she smelled. I just got off work, so it shouldn't have been either soap or shampoo. Maybe bread? Cookies? Pie? Or maybe she was coming on to me and I just didn't realize.
Posted by Anne Onymous on Mon, 06/18/2001 - 8:50pm.
Archived comment by Shi Sensou:
Aw. Out of all the ironies, this one is so cool. I love it.
Posted by Anne Onymous on Fri, 12/08/2000 - 5:27am.
Archived comment by terry:
Billybob that comment is unreasonable and ridiculous.

There are a hundred reasons for doing it. Wanting to borrow money for example, desiring promotion, needing a favour, or wanting to look like a nice person to someone nearby.

"Sorry, I appear to be lost. When I started it looked like was was on the high moral ground, but it turns out I was somewhere else all along..."
Posted by Anne Onymous on Thu, 11/16/2000 - 3:30pm.
Archived comment by Billybob:
Why would you want to compliment someone
your *not* coming on to
Posted by Anne Onymous on Thu, 11/16/2000 - 8:34am.
Archived comment by Arlene:
I like to give people compliments (it dates from the time when I had a _really_ bad self-image & how getting a compliment from a stranger would really have made my day). It can be very difficult thing to do & _not_ sound like you're coming on to them.
Posted by Anne Onymous on Wed, 11/08/2000 - 1:58pm.
Archived comment by Mike:
Try sitting on a Greyhound bus from Fresno, CA all the way to South Orange County...yeah, I think you'd have your nose glued to the vent too!
Posted by Anne Onymous on Fri, 10/20/2000 - 1:31pm.
Archived comment by The Laughing God:
I know two different people who've been asked by a man somewhere downtown, "Can I run barefoot through your hair?" A strange compliment too, in its own way.
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