When compliments go wrong
August 4th, 2008 by Sarah Morrison
I go to a market by my house to buy booze one evening. The dude working cards me. He looks at my license, back up at me, and remarks, “Beautiful!” I blush a little and mutter an awkward thank you. I return hours later to buy cigarettes. Said dude is working the register next to the one I am approaching. He taps my register dude on the shoulder and goes, “Make sure you card her. She has the hottest licence photo.”
BAHAHAHA - backhanded compliments. Hate them!
One time this lady told me I looked like a Hannah Montana Barbie Doll. I said thank you, but really I wanted to say fuck you. Someone pls explain to me how the above compliment was wrong. This confusion only furthers my social faux pas-ability.
not hannah montana but specifically the doll version hahahaha
A guy in a bar once told me I was beautiful and that I, “looked like Myra Hindley*”.
THANKS.
*UK Mass murdering child killer, admittedly with good hair.
haha this is cute. made me smile.
is this you bragging?
(on saturday i went to a club and i was talking to this english guy and he said ‘you are bloody gorgeous’.. iv been replaying the moment in my head over and over for the past two days)
Me bragging? No read the story….
I thought he said I was beautiful, but he thought the plucked eye brow, tight haired, 24 year old version of me was “beautiful.”
Win some lose some
He was kinda cute too
its ok once i was promoting this party with
this guy i was sort of dating and this kids
confused me with Kerri Washington, i was shocked
cuz i wasnt comfortable with my body but i said
“no i am not Kerri Washington sorry” they were ”
ohh u really look like her …weird huh”
My neighbor once told me I looked like The Mona Lisa. I was like ”Gee thanks, I look like the gender-confused version of Leonardo Da Vinci.
What a compliment!” NOT.
For the record, I DO NOT look like The Mona Lisa and my neighbor is clearly mental.
once i was walking my dog and this meth-faced couple starting yelling “you look like that linzay lo-won”
p.s. this was at the start of her coke-phase. (lindsay lohan’s, not my dog’s)
compliment?
last night i told my one of my best guy friends that I thought i looked obese and he said “well it looks good on you”
???????????????????????????????
i was carded for cigarettes at shamrock a while back. the man behind the counter repeatedly refused my license with the explaination that he did not believe said license belonged to me. finally, i took the licence, adopted the Poppa Dont Preach look that i had adopted as my picture’s Madonna impersonation, and smiled genuinely at this guy. “See,” I said, “It’s me!”
“I’m sorry,” he said, “It just that you look smarter.”
I look smarter than my picture? My picture looks smarter than me? I look smarter than to have attempted to dress up as the queen of pop on a state issued ID? wtf? I might be a dumbass, but do I advertise? sheesh.
Gorgeous license pics are a dime a dozen.
I periodically lose/get my wallet stolen, the only time I was genuinely pissed was when it was my best license picture ever.
PSA:
never leave your favorite clutch with your favorite license sitting behind you at a roulette table at Bill’s Gamblin’ Hall and Saloon in Las Vegas (formally known as Barbary Coast)
you will never see it again