What do you like being complimented on? What is a compliment you don’t like to receive? (Prompt courtesy of https://thecoffeemonsterzco.com/en-ca/blogs/midnight-blogging/journaling-prompts)
I am one of those people who can’t take a compliment by saying thanks and moving along. Nope, I need to stop and explain everything about what I was complimented on and over-share and make the situation weird.
A couple of months ago a coworker complimented me on my hair as I was passing by her desk. I didn’t really know her all that well, she doesn’t work in the Faculty of Health, she was in a administrative role in another department. There I go, over-explaining who she was. Hehehe.
Anyway, after she said what she said about my hair, what I should’ve done was say thank you and keep walking. But no. I stopped. I said oh really? Thanks so much.
Then I went on to explain how most of my life I was a short hair person and then when I hit thirty I decided to grow it and even then once it was long, I didn’t know anything about styling hair so it just hung, flat and boring and I was about to chop it all off and go back to being a short hair person when a coworker explained to me exactly how to tease it at the crown of my head and which curling wand to use and how to use it.
And the rest is history.
Yes, there’s lots of product in my hair. I can’t (and won’t) live without hairspray. No, it’s not really a lot of work because I only wash my hair twice a week, if that, I just put it up to sleep and the next morning, let it down and “fix” it.
It’s funny because while I’m going on and on to this lady, I’m really just hoping to negate or deflect the compliment but I don’t realize how ridiculous I sound. Then later I think to myself, oh my gosh, why did I tell her all of that?
My over-sharing knows no boundaries. Sometimes it’s the McDonald’s drive-thru guy.
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