Fishing for Compliments Is a Different Kettle of Fish
If only fishing for compliments were as fun as actual fishing. Many people believe that fishing is the greatest sport ever, and they might be right. You can do it alone or with someone. You don’t sweat. You’re out in nature. It’s fun when you succeed and it’s fun even when you don’t. And it’s probably the only sport on earth that lets you have a cold one while playing it. It truly is perfect.
Fishing for compliments, on the other hand, is a bummer. It’s embarrassing and if you don’t get the compliments you were fishing for, you feel even worse than you did to begin with. So how can such an awesome thing and such a pathetic and annoying thing share the same name?