Accidentally Offensive

Sweet sincere 7th grader to me today:

"Miss, you actually look skinny today!"

:stare:

Describe a time where someone meant to compliment you and ended up breaking your soul instead.

So she said what's the problem, baby?
What's the problem?
I dunno, well maybe I'm o-ffen-SIVE


Accidentally Offensive by Counting Crows

My schoolfriend last week said to me:

"You seem really happy today! Too happy infact. Why are you happy Jordan? Why?"

Um.. because I am happy?

I can't think of any for myself but my sister for a while would get comments like "You look good! How far along are you?" She was not pregnant.

Hohohoho! Asking a woman how far along she is...! :D

I've had so many accidentally offensive homo comments directed towards me, it's not even funny.

"Are you sure you're gay? You seem really normal." :-/

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Chris

Hohohoho! Asking a woman how far along she is...! :D

I've had so many accidentally offensive homo comments directed towards me, it's not even funny.

"Are you sure you're gay? You seem really normal." :-/

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Brilliant.

"You look so much more friendly when you smile! You should smile more often! :)"

I get that it's a compliment and an encouragement and saw it that way, but not without a quick thought of "oh, you're saying I don't normally look friendly"

"Wow, you look fantastic. I didn't recognise you." - Tony Stark, Playa.

I just have to share something I did a few weeks ago. One of our first patients was a blind woman and she came in for her appt. about 30 minutes early so I was frazzled.

I said "Okay ma'am, we just have some other forms for you to look over."

"..."

That's kind of like the time I was at a restaurant when a man in a wheelchair came in and the hostess said "sit wherever you'd like".

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Originally Posted by nik0tine

That's kind of like the time I was at a restaurant when a man in a wheelchair came in and the hostess said "sit wherever you'd like".

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I would have parked my ass in the god damn kitchen

People generally don't compliment me because I'm unapproachable or something.

SuUUUUure that's why.

EDIT: oops

I've had a few older people (anywhere from like 30+) ask if the university caters to people like them. They often phrase it in a way that makes themselves sound old or whatever. I don't usually pay enough attention to how they phrase it so I end up saying "Yeah of course!" and they feel like I'm just validated their suggestion that they're old and decrepit. On the plus side, they'll be dead soon so I don't have to feel guilty for long, right?

i keep yawning when people are talking to me.

My boss after me showering for the first time in several days: "NICE HAIR WASH"

She legitmately meant it as a compliment but I felt like she was calling me out for having greasy hair before :aimmad: