Do you actually compliment strangers, and has one ever visibly changed someone's day?

[Rebecca86]

A small social experiment thread. Do you actually say the nice thing to a stranger when you think it, the good coat, the parallel park, the kid being handled well in a meltdown, or does the thought arrive and die unspoken because saying it out loud feels awkward, and what stops you when it does

The interesting split is between the people who have trained themselves to voice it and the people who feel it constantly and never say a word, and the second group is much larger than the first, a whole population of unspoken kindnesses evaporating in queues and lifts every single day

The stories worth hearing are the ones where you did say it and watched it land, the stranger who lit up, the person who clearly needed it on a hard day, and equally the times you received one out of nowhere and carried it for years, because a compliment from someone with nothing to gain hits differently

So which are you, the sayer or the silent thinker, what holds you back if you are the latter, and has a stranger's throwaway kindness ever genuinely changed your day, because the answers might just turn a few silent thinkers into sayers this week

[Forge89]

Trained myself into a sayer after years of being a silent thinker and the return on it is absurd, five awkward seconds for a stranger's whole face changing, I cannot believe I spent decades not doing it