CRS
Chandler, Arizona, United States

There's an old saying. If you don't want someone to join a crowd, you ask them, "If everyone were jumping off of a cliff, would you?" Well, I have. So my answer would be "Yes". True story.
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Extremely Harsh Reactions to Ignored Compliments

Saturday, May 05, 2007

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My friend Eric is pretty nerdy. I very rarely see him wearing t-shirts that don't have some anime character or video game reference on it. He's proud of his geekiness, and that's fine, even if I constantly tease him about it. One day we were waiting outside a Blockbuster Video after work. We never rented DVDs or anything, but we liked to look at the video games being sold and to debate whether or not we would buy anything; inevitably, we never would. This loitering outside a store only to walk in and not purchase anything once it opened seems odd in retrospect, but it's not as if we were in a hurry to do anything else. Anyway, one day a guy with a goatee and a backwards baseball hat walked up to him and pointed at a pack he was holding with an anime symbol on it, and he said "Hey, nice bag," except that he didn't say it in a friendly way, he said it in kind of a flat-leveled voice that we assumed was sarcastic and both ignored.

Eric and I immediately forgot what was just said and continued our conversation, when the guy walked back up to us with an upset look on his face, and he said in an angry tone, "Hey man! I just gave you a fuckin' compliment! I told you your bag was fucking cool! I wasn't being sarcastic!" He then said how much he loved whatever anime it was that Eric had on his bag, named whatever was his favorite character to prove that he wasn't just making this up, and then pointed at Eric in an accusing fashion and said "You're a dick!"

This was absolutely unbelievable. I'd never seen anyone react so harshly about an ignored compliment. It was if he'd gone through a whole day of complimenting people and being constantly ignored, and this was the final straw. He'd had enough of people ignoring him. And he exploded. Frankly, I thought maybe we'd get our asses kicked, because he didn't exactly look like the peaceful nerd like Eric and I do, he looked like the kind that gets drunk at frat parties and liked to get in bar fights, who also happened to be a closet fan of anime. Perhaps he'd get out his cell phone and call his posse. "These guys at Blockbuster didn't say 'Thank you' when I complimented one of them! Let's beat their ass!"
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with love from CRS @ 9:30 AM 

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