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Where are you from, initially. Clearly you aren't a native English speaker. I'll be honest, when I'm talking to someone and they don't have command of the language yet, I often have trouble understanding what they're saying. My guess is perhaps your eye contact, I'm actually wearing it thing might have confused her and she didn't know what you were trying to say or couldn't make out what you meant. I don't know. Don't get discouraged but language mastery is going to be an issue for you I feel. People tend to think people who can't speak the language aren't smart. I know that's not true and if you asked any woman, she'd admit it isn't true, but in the moment you're slowing down to talk to someone, you tend to speak louder so you can be clear and these are things you also do to accommodate those of us who are less bright. You start to fall into the trap.
Now, I don't want to be down on you. I want you to get out there and do more than just compliment women. I want you to go out there and flirt and debate social policy and talk about her sweet lady parts in a nuanced way whereby she knows you're referencing her backyard, but yet... you're only referencing the back yard. DO NOT BE DISCOURAGED. You gave a lady your first compliment. It wasn't meant to be flirting, just dropping a nice quip on a cutie. DO NOT ANALYZE an interaction where your only goal was to give a compliment. Mission accomplished (your title to this thread). Congrats. I say you go from 1 to ten, skip the 3 altogether... there are so many women deserving of compliments all throughout the day. Maybe you should pick a 72 hour window and challenge yourself to compliment EVERY single thing you like about anything on the gals. Shit, I saw a girl today wearing gold sequined shoes. She was skinny and hipsterish, but delicate and beautiful. I wanted to slurp and burp her so badly. But when I think about it, that happens maybe 15 times a day to me. I'm sure it does to you to. You ALWAYS have time to stop and say, "hey, I really dig your coral colored jeggings."