Compliments You've Received
One evening at a fine restaurant in Boston during our intense two year courtship my fiancé took my hands, looked at them for a long while and then turning them palms up before finally breaking the silence as she whispered, "Bobby, you have the most honest hands I've ever seen. You could have been a pathologist or neurosurgeon". Never forgot her words that evening, even though we never spoke of it again. Twenty five years later as she lay in an obtunded state dying, I carefully removed the blankets from her once symmetrical but now swollen calves and ankles to gently massage them with lotion I found on her hospital nightstand. Less than five hours later she departed this life, shortly before noon. Maybe I imagined it, maybe not... but I think with the trace of her kind, lingering and beguiling smile.
Yours?
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When I was about 20 I work for a guy named George and his truck stalled on the way to a job site. He opened the hood telling me he's had connection troubles with his battery.
With a flat screwdriver he began to pry the battery terminal off the post with his other hand just inches away. I said, "careful, watch your hand."
He stopped what he was doing and looked at me, I thought sure he was going to complain how he knew what he was doing having done it hundreds of times in his life.
"I've been on this good Earth nearly 70 years, and you're the first person to have said something like that BEFORE I hurt myself. Usually I'm bruised or bloodied before someone suggests I should be careful. Thank you."
Originally posted by greenpawn34An ex-girlfriend once whispered that she would always think of me as the best friend she had ever had, she had to whisper because her new boyfriend was urinating in my bruised and bloodied body at the time:'(
My boss recently said I was too good for words.
Well he never exactly said that.
He said. "You leave me speechless!"
