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It’s impressive how you just say things out loud without a care about how it makes you look.
Yes, they took it as a compliment.
I’m in Texas and here’s it’s - Bless your heart.
A phrase that, depending on the context, can mean either:
“I am so sorry you’re having to deal with <insert-situation-here>.”
or
“You dumb bitch.”
You still have an opportunity to impress me.
You are impossible to underestimate
Back in the early 90’s I managed a Radio Shack and had an employee that could get away with murder talking to customers.
One day he was at the counter showing one of our regular customers programmable police scanners. One thing about this regular customer was he was dumb as a brick. He often brought back items because he flat out could not figure out how to use them. My employee was DETERMINED to sell this guy a programmable scanner, not the easiest bit of kit to use, and not have him return it. On the 4th time trying to show the guy how to program it my employee looked the customer straight in the face and said this gem:
“Don’t worry, you just have to be smarter than the product.”
Fortunately, he was the only customer in the store. I was standing at the other end of the counter working on a display when I heard that. I had to run to the back room before exploding with laughter.
The customer never caught on. He even walked out with one of the most expensive scanners and he never returned it.
“I hope your day is as pleasant as you are”
If you get mad, it’s an admission that you’re an asshole.
the interpretation of this one highly depends on the intonation. so writing this in text would be great
He’s only working with two tools and they are both screwdrivers
Hows the married life?
Oh you know, living the dream. Each day’s better than the next.
You really know how to make that look hard.
My boss (who is horrible) gave out little encouragement cards to everyone. I’m one of two especially vocal people in my department. We both got cards that say “You never cease to amaze me.” 🤣🤣🤣 I keep it on my desk as a badge of honor.
I hope the rest of your day is as pleasant as you weren’t.
The original is more subtle: “I hope your day is as pleasant as you are,” since it subtly implies the negative without outright stating it.
To go even more subtle, you can simply say “I hope you have the day you deserve.” The brilliance of this one is, no one thinks they’re the villain, so the person will think you’re wishing them a good day. It depends on what they think of you (or what they think of what you think of them). If you’re generally a well-natured sort who sees the good in people, they will probably take it as a compliment. But if you’re more of a realist and you tend to treat people as they deserve, they might be second-guessing it.
‘I hope that you get all of the good things in life that you deserve’ can certainly go either way.
How come your brother is so smart?
Just because you look at the pretty pictures in the yearbook does not mean any of them are your friend.
