Today, not even a half hour ago, I was on the bus. It was kind of crowded so I went towards the back to find a seat. I happened to sit next to some man. He was youngish and had reddish brown hair and facial hair which I thought he ought to shave. Regardless. He had some very nice hands that I noticed and I kept looking at them, trying to make it not that obvious. It reminded me of the time a few years ago when I was getting a new phone at the Verizon store. The man who was helping us also had quite nice hands and fingernails. His hands were nice and elegant looking. I was considering talking to this man on the bus. He might have been left handed. I was thinking of complimenting him on his hands and saying they remind me of Vincent D'Onofrio, and mention that if he wasn't aware of who Vincent D'Onofrio is, that he was in Full Metal Jacket back in the 80s and also recently in the Netflix series Daredevil. And I was going to ask if he was left handed, and then mention that Vincent is as well and so am I. He was reading a book for part of the ride yet I didn't catch the title of it. I saw the words on the top of one page which said "Virtues of good breeding" but that doesn't really tell me much. Eventually he put the book away and seemed to be looking out the windows. Or maybe he was looking at me. I'm not sure. He had grayish eyeballs and in the pocket of his bag there was a light purple bandana and some tea bags, or at least that's what they looked like through the mesh. I kept looking at him and trying to restrain myself from giving him a strange compliment (this is why I need to be kept away from Vincent D'Onofrio and the guy with the eyelashes because I would give them strange compliments about some of their body parts if I happened to encounter them in person, probably). I was wondering which stop he was going to get off at. Eventually, the bus came to where I needed to go and I pulled the string. It gives me a small pleasure to be the person to pull the string. It ever so slightly irritates me when someone else who is getting off at the same stop I am pulls the string before I do. It ever so slightly irritates me. In any case, I did get to be the person to pull the string on this occasion and I was getting ready to get off and it turned out that it was this man's stop too. So as I was getting off the bus I said to him, "You have nice hands." This is very reminiscent of a compliment I gave someone else out of the blue a couple years ago. Only that time I was complimenting said person's teeth. I definitely consider that to have been a strange compliment. The man thanked me for the compliment and I said "You're welcome" and got off the bus. I was quite pleased with myself. I wonder what that man thought about this... incident. Perhaps his thoughts are "Some girl gave me a strange compliment today. It was weird." I wouldn't be surprised if those are his thoughts.
This post exemplifies my character traits of people watching and strange compliment giving, which I look forwards to doing more of in the future.
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