Crazy Customers and Crazier Compliments (930 hits)
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Submitted by Redrum<redrum420.at.zoomtown.com> (View user info) at 2004-01-18 02:35:44 EST
While at work today and grinding through the eight hour session of fun that is cashing out angsty patrons, I received probably the strangest compliment I've ever gotten. First, let me give you a little background on my job.
For those of you familiar with the greater Cincinnati area, you've heard of United Dairy Farmers. For everyone else, it's one of the many pits of hell where Carl Lindner and the rest of his family (owners of such great things as the Chiquita Banana Company and the Cincinnati Reds) force people like me to slave away for them. United Dairy Farmers (more often than not, just called U.D.F.) is a convenience store/gas station. But that's not all! Being the dairy folk that we are, we serve ice cream and milk shakes.
Now, you'd think that during the winter, people would buy less ice cream and such than usual. Not so. As today proved, people will drive through a Winter Weather Advisory with freezing rain to make sure they get their chocolate milkshake or beloved soft serve yogurt flavor of the day.
The fact that people will drive to our store to get ice cream during freezing weather is my proof that our customers are crazy. That's why I wasn't all too surprised to get such a strange compliment today. A woman came up to me who must have been in her late twenties at most. She was pretty attractive, dressed up a little, and had very pretty dark eyes. She set down the Diet Coke and half gallon of Cookies 'N Cream she was about to buy and looked up at me. Then she said it: "You have really pretty hair."
Now in the past, I've received such comments about my hair as "You look like Shaggy from Scooby-Doo" (when it was much shorter) and "Get a haircut and a job you fucking hippie". Never had I been told I had "pretty" hair. I'd always thought "pretty" was reserved for use when complimenting females. My cheeks flared redder than my hair (sorry Mick, I'm a guy) and I started stumbling for words. She eventually articulated that "pretty" probably wasn't the word to use for a guy and that she probably meant "nice" or "handsome". We were both so giggly and feeling awkward that we mostly finished our respective cashier/customer experiences without words. I finally managed to thank her for the compliment and commented on her eyes before she made it out the door. I spent the next 3 minutes in the 20 degree below freezer (as you might remember from here: http://www.ubersite.com/m/23190) trying to get my face to return to normal color.
Anyone else ever receive a sincere yet strange compliment like I did? If not, at least let me know if my alliteration in the post title was appreciated. Night Ubers.
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Submitted by Herpes (user info) at 2004-01-19 19:11:39 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
She wanted you to hump her...
Submitted by dakingisdead (user info) at 2004-01-19 00:31:10 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Ha I was on weekend leave when I was in police boot camp and came back with my stud in my ear. Accidentally wore it on Parade. Senior sergeant balled me out and told me it was an afront to his manhood. I took that as a compliment.
Submitted by okiwilltellyou (user info) at 2004-01-18 20:10:51 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Had an old guy tell me he loved my ears, and sure didn't stay to ask him why
Submitted by dacygrl <dacygrl.at.hotmail.com> at 2004-01-18 13:39:23 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
In central Ohio U.D.F. = United Donkey Fuckers.
Strangest compliment: "You're really pretty up close. When I met you I thought you were ugly. Now I just think you have a big nose."
This was from a 6 or 7 year old girl who was working on the bitchy backhanded compliment thing early in life.
+2 cause I love UDF and Homemade brand ice cream. Better than Graeters and less expensive!
Submitted by Tastycat (user info) at 2004-01-18 13:05:06 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I get complimented on my eyes quite often. http://www.ubersite.com/m/23335
One time an old man, maybe about 190, told me I that had very shapely eyebrows. I wasn't quite sure what to say.
Submitted by Despiadado (user info) at 2004-01-18 12:32:22 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
As a customer completes their transaction with me, I always say "enjoy your meal". About half the time they say "you too". I feel like punching them in the fucking face and saying "What meal you jackass? You bought something off me!" then taking their meal and cramming it up their....oh, I got a bit side tracked there.
Nice story. +2.
Submitted by russizm (user info) at 2004-01-18 10:55:22 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
I've gotten the shaggy one before.
Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2004-01-18 09:38:44 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Last new years I went to the best new years party I had ever been to, and everyone went in drag. I got into it and I tell you what...I am one ugly chick, and was told as much by a number of people. I kept getting asked what I put in my dress to make it look like a chicks ass, or just general comments about how my ass looked great. The second one wouldn't have been bad or weird, but I got more of the first. Is a chicks ass bad on a man? I don't know, but I do know I had better stay out of prison with my muffin ass.
Submitted by Kristen (user info) at 2004-01-18 08:28:01 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Who is this Kristen Fetish guy/girl?
Awww, I get the kids from my classes writing me little notes on their assignments, or putting their phone numbers on their test papers or whatnot. It's very cute, I just have no idea what to do with it.
Submitted by I_Have_a_Kristen_Fetish (user info) at 2004-01-18 07:44:43 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
I once had a girl compliment my ass once... I didn't really know what to say about that one...
Submitted by Random Joe at 2004-01-18 02:41:09 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
i always get compliments on my blue eyes, contrasting my black hair. i got mugged the other day by five guys and one of them looked at me and said "you have blue eyes" wtf? you're mugging me? i'm not sure if this was a compliment or not but it cost me my wallet.
Submitted by abortionrules1 (user info) at 2004-01-18 02:39:10 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Hmm...well my turn, then! I work at Tim Horton's, and it blows.
Umm...compliments? Let's see...None! Well the tips I receive count as compliments I suppose...I drag in 5 bucks a night in tips.
Insults...LOTS! People who come into Tim Horton's are so dumb, their presence is an insult.
Boycott Tim Horton's, Starbucks all the way.