Theatrical Muse 336 What's the worst compliment you've ever received?
It’d been a hard day. It wasn’t the first time that he’d had a vision, tried to talk a wealthy potential victim into hiring him to deal with what he’d seen and then found that the potential client didn’t believe there was a problem. He’d had to take action anyway, and now he ached.
When he first saw the latest question from the counselor he was tempted to write,
“I was told that I’d over-done looking honest and stupid so badly that I had to be a scammer.” and leave it at that. Telling someone that they look honest ought to be a compliment, after all, backhanded as it was.
The woman confusing honesty and stupidity said more about her than about him, anyway. The thought crossed his mind that he should have let the beast eat her, who cared if someone poisoned a demonic worm? The Powers probably had a reason, though; maybe it was a protected species or something.
Who did the rich bitch remind him of, anyway? He remembered as he reached for the keyboard and started typing.
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I suppose that one of the worst came from Julia Malone, years back. She could seem to have as bad a case of foot-in-mouth disease as Cordy did, but Julia had a way of putting a barb on some of her comments that could make them sting for years, and sometimes I wondered if she really did it in innocence.
I think it happened when I was leaving student life and going after my first real job, because I had the new suit. I was trying it on at home when Julia dropped in to borrow something and gave her opinion,
“Oh now, that’s smart. Will the light be behind him like that on the day? He’s not bad looking if you don’t see his face too clear,”
At least by then she’d stopped looking at me when we met, sighing and saying, “Ah well, maybe you’ll grow to a man's size yet.”
Muse, Allen Francis Doyle
Fandom, Angel, the series.
Words, 333
When he first saw the latest question from the counselor he was tempted to write,
“I was told that I’d over-done looking honest and stupid so badly that I had to be a scammer.” and leave it at that. Telling someone that they look honest ought to be a compliment, after all, backhanded as it was.
The woman confusing honesty and stupidity said more about her than about him, anyway. The thought crossed his mind that he should have let the beast eat her, who cared if someone poisoned a demonic worm? The Powers probably had a reason, though; maybe it was a protected species or something.
Who did the rich bitch remind him of, anyway? He remembered as he reached for the keyboard and started typing.
……………………………………………………………..
I suppose that one of the worst came from Julia Malone, years back. She could seem to have as bad a case of foot-in-mouth disease as Cordy did, but Julia had a way of putting a barb on some of her comments that could make them sting for years, and sometimes I wondered if she really did it in innocence.
I think it happened when I was leaving student life and going after my first real job, because I had the new suit. I was trying it on at home when Julia dropped in to borrow something and gave her opinion,
“Oh now, that’s smart. Will the light be behind him like that on the day? He’s not bad looking if you don’t see his face too clear,”
At least by then she’d stopped looking at me when we met, sighing and saying, “Ah well, maybe you’ll grow to a man's size yet.”
Muse, Allen Francis Doyle
Fandom, Angel, the series.
Words, 333