January 6, 2009

  • What's the best compliment you have ever gotten?

    There have been many compliments given to me through out my life time and all of them are remembered.  Here is one that sticks out in my mind every time.

    I was in college taking 18 credits hours that semester so I could graduate in 4 years and I was working 25-30 hours a week at Family Video as well so I could have money for food.  Needless to say I was going out of my mind with all the work and stress I was under.  This was a regular Friday night at Family Video aka we were packed and had lines that never seemed to end with people wanting to rent videos.  I was checking some videos out for this mother and her autistic son.  He whispers to his mom and she politely tells me that her son thinks I look like Elvis which is a HUGE compliment coming from him.  I can understand what he meant because I was unable to keep my sideburns in check so they had gotten long and flared out like Elvis.  Well it stopped me in my tracks and I smiled as I had not received a compliment in I don't even know how long.  I thanked them both profusely for it as it completely made my week.  I had been dealing with so many upset, impatient, and sometimes rude customers on top of my school work, tests, midterms, finals etc. and they stopped to give me a compliment like that.  I will never forget it for as long as I live.

       

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