QotD: Complimentary
What is the greatest compliment you've received?
Submitted by Maraschino.
After almost 20 years working in healthcare, I opened an internet coffeehouse in 1995 in a major career change at age 41, it was focused on family style fun in an area of Oregon that had a lot of drug issues. We offered free and low cost computer, art and music classes to 3 generations of families through the business. My dad came in to check it out, and told me that watching the effect that the environment I created within it had on the people who entered it was the most remarkable thing he had ever seen.... and that he was very proud of me for creating such a place, (he had never complimented anyone on anything in his life that I know of). He finally "got" who I was, and for the first time in a long time we got closer. He died 6 months later.
