33. Complimenting others...a personal journey

So in light of my wanting to understand my client more I decided to compliment others like he does...this is my adventure (summarized of course.)Sport ChaletI walk in looking for some leg warmers (b/c it's getting colder and they feel nice when i'm on my bike)I talk to one of the associates there: He is a black, thirty something southern descent guy (with a great deep, southern voice...very cool). I tell him, "hey man, you have a great voice...have you ever done radio or tv with it?"his response, "yeah I have, ya know...that's what I came to LA for...and you know that ladies like it too."my response, "yeah I hear that man."his response, "yeah...like I said, the 'ladies' like it"my response, "yeah...I hear ya man."his response, "no no no...the 'ladies' like it." (wink, wink) "only the ladies...i'm not ya know..gay"my response, "dude..uh...what...are you...doh! OH MAN!! i'm not gay either!!!"his response, "ohhh I just thought that you were...i mean you're here buying tights...and talking about my voice...i just thought you were...""DOH!"Donut StoreOlder woman in her forties that worked in a donut store by where I work."hello sir, can I help you." she says."sure...let me have a cup of coffee and a glaze donut." I say.I then notice this necklace that she was wearing that had a metal stick charm or somethng of the sort and thought, 'this is my chance to compliment.'I then say, "can i just say, that your necklace is very nice and interesting"her response, "thanks...the stick is from my wrist watch when i was in a terrible accident. the metal stick was on my watch when I was driving before a car accident. The stick then jammed into my wrist but was lodge in such a way that it kept me from bleeding to death out my wrist and dying."my response, "WHOA! (TMI) well..uh...yeah...uh...um...so now you uh...where it around your neck where it can't go into your wrist again?"(not very sensitive but...it's the first thing that came out...sigh)her response was somewhere along "screw you and fuck you three ways from last week asshole..." but in a different asian language...yeah...i'm glad I couldn't understand that....