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I
was
sitting at a bar.
Easiest thing to do in
the world right? Well, not in my condition. I was so stoned,
drunk and lazy that even sitting was becoming difficult so I closed my
eyes, put my head down on the linoleum table and began drooling into my
coaster. Another awesome night.
My mind wanted to leave but that would require far too much
effort. Instead, I figured that once I was asleep my friends
would wake me up and drag me home.
Of course, nobody knew what I wanted from them, because (a) they
couldn't read my brainwaves and (b) even if they could, my friends were
far to busy seducing American tourists to care about what I
wanted.
To make matters worse, even though I was
trying to sleep, my
ears were still working. Which meant that I was
forced to hear the entirety of their lame conversations.
Apparently, these American tourists were in Canada because, for one,
it's cheaper than visiting a real country, and for two, in America
these
girls were underage, meaning they were too young to buy alcohol and
drink in bars, but in Canada they weren't. In Canada
the legal age is 19, in America it is 21, which meant that we were
dealing with a herd of under-21 girls who were drunk enough to be
talking to us. Deduction:
these bitches were clearly in
heat.
I guess the conversation must have hit a lull, because I was woken from
my half-sleep by a hand pressing down on my shoulder and a Southern
accented
woman asking "So how come
you're not saying
anything?" The hell? Annoyed and
without really looking at her, I pulled my face out of the linoleum
only slightly and muttered "that's because I'm trying to
sleep." I began putting my head down again but then she asked me
another question:
"Why'd you wanna sleep for anyway?"
"I think it's because I'm sleepy."
"Don't you like girls?"
Now that sounded like a challenge, so I
pulled myself up. I was sitting and she was standing over
me. My
head was
now precisely at
eye level with a pair of exceptionally large breasts. Her
pair. She had one of the largest boobie regions I have ever seen.
Bam! It was
like
being electrocuted. The mental fog lifted and I could feel myself
waking up almost immediately. There was more to my awakening than
just the sheer size of her breasts however, my reaction also took into
account
the way she wore them. Her bra, her low cut dress, all the
clothing she had on was specifically designed to call attention towards
her breasts, unfortunately, in her case this had the added
benefit of
calling attention away from her face (she was no great beauty, but
whatever, it's not
like I was sober enough to care - and I'd never care because I'm never
sober). Most men who
awoke in my position would probably point to her tits and say something
like
"I guess I just found two very good reasons for staying awake", but I
knew that such an obvious compliment would be foolhardy. So I did
things a little differently. I let her know how annoyed I was
about being woken up:
"Gosh, do you mean to tell me that, even dressed the way you are, you
still get so little attention from men you have to actually wake one up
just to get one to notice you?"
"No! The other guys here are ugly."
"Agreed. Not only that but they have very poor hygiene,
especially my friends. You do not want your friends to sleep with
these
assholes."
"Really? Why not?"
"Because they drugged me with chemicals and dragged me to a shitty bar
and now I want revenge on
them."
My decision not to do the obvious and immediately go for complimenting
her breasts quickly paid dividends. When I asked whether her
boyfriend back home would have any problems with her picking up swarthy
foreigners in Canadian bars, she told me what I wanted to hear:
"I don't have a boyfriend."
"Really, why is that? Is there something I should know?"
It wasn't a serious question and I didn't expect her to give me a
serious answer, but she did. She paused for such a long time
before
answering I could almost hear the gears in her drunken head
turning.
Then she began shyly stammering it out:
"I
can't
take
most guys seriously... you know?"
"Why?"
"Well it's a little... you know? Uh..."
"Why?"
"Uh... well..."
"Come on... Why?"
Given this sort
of expert interrogation it didn't take long for her to
break down and admit what her troubles with men were. She started ranting
(bragging?)
about how men are completely fixated on her
breasts when she's out in public. She mentioned
how guys always,
ALWAYS, ALWAYS compliment
her
on her breasts. She used to like
the way men obsessed over her breasts but that was five years ago, by
now she had grown tired of it.
At
first
I
thought she was full of shit (you can't really be sick of
people paying attention to your breasts when you display them like
that) but eventually I came to feel a little sorry for this woman
because
she seemed to get
more and more depressed the more she went on about it. So I
figured I'd reassure her. I said something comforting like
"I'm know that can't be all guys compliment you on when there are so
many other
great things about you that are worthy of being complimented as
well."
This was a mistake, because now she was looking at me
expectantly like
she was waiting for me to actually list those great things.
So I
took a prolonged look at her; her bottom teeth were kind of crooked and
her
face had some acne that her heavy make-up didn't entirely
conceal. Basically, I could not locate a single physical
attribute besides her epic breasts that was worthy of being
complimented. Since I didn't know her at all as a person, I
couldn't compliment her on her personality or on any artistic talents
she might have because I wasn't aware of them. So instead, after
a few seconds of her silently looking at me like she was expecting me
to follow up my statement, I simply repeated my statement: "yeah...
there must be so many other great things I could compliment you on...
and I can't wait to
discover those things." Damn
I'm clever! As Christopher Walken so eloquently put it in
A View
to A Kill (perhaps the shittiest of all Bond movies), "Intuitive
improvisation is the secret of genius."
I never had to guess what sorts of things I could compliment her
on, in fact, she offered that information voluntarily. She gave
me a
suggestive
look and moved her face
closer to mine. Following that, she quietly confessed that back
home in Virginia she "may have been"
complimented on the quality of her blow jobs "once or twice".
I couldn't resist making fun
or her. I put on an expression of mock shock and explained:
"Once or twice? Wait a minute... you're actually
famous for it aren't you? You're Virginia's Reigning
Queen
of Cocksucking! I'd recognize that mouth
anywhere!
"Fuck off."
"Wow... I'm really impressed that you're too humble to brag about
having
a
major title like that. I definitely need to compliment you on
your amazing modesty!"
Awesome right? Well, my moment of triumph was short lived.
That's because I made the
tactical error of introducing her as "Virginia's Reigning Queen of
Cocksucking" to my douchebag friend Matt, who, and I cannot stress this
enough, is a colossal douchebag.
Within 30 seconds of knowing her, Matt went on to loudly speculate that
she was probably lousy at giving head and that those "horse fucking
rednecks" who she blew only told her that she was good at giving
blow jobs because any human mouth is a step up from the sheep they
usually get head from.
I won't lie, my friends are miserable savages. I tried to salvage
the
situation with the girl by getting Matt to fuck off, but by then it was
too late. I only avoided feeling her womanly wrath by telling her
a
blatant lie: "Man, that
Matt... that guy sure changed since his accident. It's like I
don't even know him anymore! What
a dick!" Luckily, I think she was just drunk enough to believe
me. I was too wasted to fuck so I hit it the next day. I
knew if she had sex with me that night, she would have been incredibly
disappointed with the result, and my personal philosophy is: I'm such a
disappointment to my
entire family, I refuse to be a disappointment to anybody else.
Also, I let her carry me
home. I do regret that my home was less than two blocks away from
that
particular bar, I really should have made the bitch work harder.
Anyway,
I
didn't
write you this story to call attention my burgeoning
alcoholism, I wrote it to call attention to the way that compliments
work. Specifically, they don't work in the way that most
people
think they work. Most people find something worth complimenting
in
another person, and then they give that person an honest
compliment.
Now that's fucked up. It's not effective. Picture time:
Telling
a
great
artist that his art is great is like pointing out that the
sky
is
blue. The same goes for telling a woman with huge tits that
she has awesome tits. It's like: "DUH!
Do
you want a cookie
for being so observant
there, Captain Obvious? PS. I've heard that compliment 100
times already, you fucking nuisance. Now I guess I got to act
like I'm grateful for hearing it a 101st time."
You
need to think before you
compliment people. If you give them a
compliment they've heard a million times before, you'll probably just
annoy them. The trick is to compliment them on something you KNOW
they've NEVER been complimented on before. Tell Eddie Van Halen
that
he's a decent guitar player
and he'll be like "no shit", but if you tell him how impressed you are
with his mental stability and his dedication to sobriety, he'll shit
his pants with joy, because he's never heard either of those things
said about him.
In my defense, Micheal
Phelps is a big boy, I'm sure he can handle it.
So
if you want people to appreciate
your compliment, the trick is to
compliment them on
things they've never been complimented on before. The most
effective compliments are
unique ones, they let the person see him or
herself in a new, positive light. They let the person think,
"wow, I never thought of that before!" The only problem is...
there's usually a damn good reason why
they never heard those compliments before: there simply was NOTHING TO
COMPLIMENT! So then,
you give a truthful compliment about something you find to be
honestly, genuinely impressive about a person and that person won't
care 'cause he's heard it all
before. Give a dishonest compliment about something you know a
person hasn't ever been complimented on, and he'll melt from the
appreciation. As Tyrone Power once put it "the secret of charm is
bullshit."
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