"I'm not cheap, I'm just old."

[batskeets]

Well, chalk up yet another random compliment on my looks from somebody whom I'm vaguely skeeved out to be receiving compliments from. I went out for coffee this morning, and as I passed some random dude on the way back, he looked at me and blurted out, "oh, you're BEAUTIFUL!" Of course, said random dude was also getting on in years and going visibly gray.

Why is it always the weird and/or old people who give me compliments like that? Note that by "old," I mean, "too old to be hitting on ladies my age" Old, as opposed to, "immobilized in a wheelchair and can't remember one's own name" Old. If I'm cute enough to merit random compliments, why do they not come from people in my own age group, or from people with relatively-similar life circumstances to mine? (namely, those who are not near-homeless or appearing to have been previously incarcerated) Am I just really scary to people my in my own age group, or what?

Anyhoo, things keep rolling along. Wushu tonight, wee! And I gotta get up early tomorrow so I can hopefully get into work early, so I'd better take off. :)

Comments

[xplo-eristotle.livejournal.com]

I'm sorta-almost in your age group and had a thing for you for a while.. so, what, I'm weird? :P

[skeets.livejournal.com]

LOL! But seriously, you are A) not a random dude, and B) not busting out compliments on the street when I don't know you from Adam.

[threeleet.livejournal.com]

Why is it always the weird and/or old people who give me compliments like that?

'Cause all the normal/young people are too scared of the awkwardness of complimenting a total stranger, and/or of having it interpreted as "just trying to get in her pants" or as just plain creepy & unwanted. Older/crazy/homeless people know they won't be taken seriously and/or just don't care. The line between friendly compliment & harrassment is too blurry, and is always taken from the point of view of the complimentee (and thus completely out of the complimeter's control), so it's safer to just keep quiet.

[nick2310.livejournal.com]

It's a legitimate point. I see people all that time that make me think that they are beautiful. It's not a matter of hitting on them, trying to get some action, or anything of the sort, mearly a recognition that certain human forms are beautiful. Of course I never say anything for exactly the reason that it will invariably be interpretted as creepy. Too bad really, a society where people could freely recieve compliments without lookign for the ulterior motive would be a lot better than the paranoid one that we have now.

[xplo-eristotle.livejournal.com]

It's true. Freaks and older guys are more likely to have the balls and/or apathy to toss out compliments.