Yesterday @ the DMV on Hollywood/Western.

The security guy got me a California driver's manual(all the ones sitting on the counter were in Spanish), to which I said "thanks". I was just trying to leave and he said, "You got a hot look--it's nice." He was a very dark, very old Spanish gentleman.

It was a damn hot look I had goin' on though. Rockin' my Kangol cap. Campus STs. Can't deny it.

So, what is the oddest compliment you've ever received from a stranger in a non-romantic context?

live4lust said:

I like the way u use emoticons

I was at a bar and a dude came up to me and asked if he could buy me a drink. I told him I was good with my drink and didn't swing that way. He was cool with that, but then added "seriously, I would totally suck your dick".

I told him I'd take that drink.

Someone once told me I had nice, small ears. I was like "Uhhhhh . . . thanks? "

I was in the fruit section at the grocery store and a woman said to me "You look nice today!"

Never saw her in my life

Mars23 said:

ThreadCula said:

I get girls who flirt with me, who think they know me, but I've never met them before. I just go with it.

Almost every day. It's maddening and usually strange, but improves my mood nonetheless. Amazing what such a tiny outreach can do for someone.

ThreadCula said:

Buying grapes?

basically any of the women who'll come up to me out of nowhere and gush about how amaaaazing my height is, and how they wish they were taller. i'm always polite about it, but it annoys me to no fucking end.

Oh the strangest one in the recent memory definately came from the Miami Invasion this year.


We all decided to go to Twist SouthBeach which is a local gay club that is really popular there. Anyways, Carrie and sosgemini are getting progressively more and more tanked on alcohol and hittin' on young latino men or something, leaving me at the bar to care for Carrie's purse (I totally rock fluffy white purses by the way).

And this handsome Venezuelan dude in his 40's comes up to me and introduces himself.

He then compliments my eyes, and takes both of his index fingers to the sides of his face and stretches his eyes to make them slanted, and says "I love men with eyes like this."

Now if you grew up as an Asian in the deep south like I did, you've seen folks do that to you many times, but never so sweet and in such a complimenting way

I had a damned good laugh from that.

Imago said:

wtf?

evenstar3 said:

I turned down a dance with him of course, but probably should have accepted it. I could dance and and constantly make gestures with my hands like I'm making my eyes more slanted, you know how they do that silly joke-dance where people move their fingers in front of there eyes in a v-shape scissor formation? I could have rocked that dance.

Imago said:

i don't think i wanna know what he would've done to your eyes in bed.

Imago said:

I liked your contribution, even though it wasn't actually what I asked.

evenstar3 said:

I need to find a hand held mirror and check to see if my asshole, aka browneye, is slanted too

Imago said:

Shouldn't you have determined that before you bought the dildo?

2the9s said:

The dildo is NOT for me!

Someone once told me I was "whimsical"

Imago said:

CarrieMpls said:

I didn't lose that purse!
I even looked on amazon to see if they had one like it!

Imago said:

Did you really?

That rocks.

CarrieMpls said:

Yes!

That shit is rare as hell.

I think I only found 3 that were fluffy, and they were all sequenced with pearls or something.



Where do you find your fashion?

I was at a craft fair, and I just bought some cookbooks written by this old woman..well she was autographing every book sold, and I stood there in line, waiting as she signed etc...when it was my turn, she asked me to lean down to her, and she said that I have the most amazing skin, and I had eyes that were full of love. She said, I was a very beautiful woman. I thought it was very sweet of her, that what she said brought me to tears.

Imago said:

I don't share my shopping secrets.
But yeah, it was quite rare. I knew it was irreplacable.

CarrieMpls said:

Well, one of the cats I'm caring for is a Turkish Angora with soft white fur, and he's really pissing me off lately. I can turn him into a purse if you'd like.

MoniGram said:

genuine compliments rock. a guy friend once told me that i had the most expressive eyes of anyone he'd ever met, and i almost cried right there.

I've had two people ask me if I was Tom Brokaw. Aside from being 20 years younger than him, I was flattered.

ThreadCula said:

Didn't that make you feel good?

That is the kind of thing I like to do and soon, I'm taking it on a city-wide scale.