Something has been bugging me since last night. I guess I'll vent about it over here for you good people this morning.

Do ya'll want to play a game?

Oh you do...well that's just peachy!

Okay, so let's pretend that I'm the TEACHER and you are my students. Call me Miss Crabtree. (Any Little Rascals fans out there today?)

"Good Morning Class!"

This is when you all say; "Good Morning Miss Crabtree!"

And now maybe ya'll can tell me how pretty I am, bring me apples, compliment my new dress and basically suck up to me.

Got that?

Good.

"Class, today we're going to start out with a Pop Quiz."

You all can start fidgeting in your seats now if you want to but no sassing me....okay?

"This Pop Quiz will only be ONE question and if you get it right then I shall dismiss you all for the rest of the day. If you do not get this answer right I shall beat you all unmercifully with my yard stick."

Heh....I should have been a teacher huh?

Ready for your quiz?

1. When someone pays you a compliment what do you say?

A. Oh you don't mean that.
B. Shut up!
C. Are you blind?
D. What do you want?
E. Thank you.

"Okay class, pencils down. Please pass your quiz to the person next to you so we can grade your papers."

Oh Jesus on a stick how long does it take you people to pass one sheet of paper?

"Class the correct answer is E."

Screw this, I don't want to play anymore but seriously....THANK YOU is the ONLY correct response here. When someone says something NICE to you all you gotta do is open your pie hole and let the words flow out....Thank You.

That's it....sooo farookin' simple but why do sooo many people fuck this up? I hate to be the informer on this too but mostly it's us women who for the life of us can't take a damn compliment.

I saw my girlfriend yesterday right? She was returning a book I had loaned to her and right away I noticed she had put some highlights in her hair. She looked AWESOME so I told her so. I actually said; "Oh hey...you've put some blonde streaks in your hair didn't you? It looks GREAT."

All this woman had to do was smile and say Thank You but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO....I had to hear how bad she thought it looked and then she had to ask me 5 times if I did in fact really really like her hair.

I said I did didn't I? I mean I'm the one who brought it up. I said her hair looked GREAT.

Us women really have to stop doing this and this is what I'm thinking. If it annoys ME and I'm a gal then how annoying is this to a MAN? It takes alot for our 3 legged friends to be nice sometimes. It takes alot for a man at times to just conjure up a compliment all by himself so when a MAN says something nice just say THANK YOU because God knows when you'll hear it again out of his hairy lipped mouth.

And really...maybe they don't pay us compliements as much as we'd like because they don't want to hear all the other stupid crap that comes out of our mouth.

Just say THANK YOU and be done with it.

Whew...I feel sooo much better now.