A Thirty-Something Life: Compliments

Last night (Jan. 2011), an older man in a bar came up to me and told me in French, "You are a perfect example of genetic success."

I think it made both our night.

He had been practicing his line, obviously, because he tripped on his words as he said it. But it seemed to make him happy to have used it.

I got a good inner chuckle at the cheese of it all.

Win-win!