“You’d make a good lawyer.”

“You’d make a good lawyer.”

The only people who ever tell me that a) are older than me and b) have just lost an argument with me.

You say it like I’m a kid: “It’s remarkable that you construct effective arguments on the fly. You could do something with that someday.” Listen bitch, I know. What you’re really saying is you’d pay me hundreds of dollars an hour to do what comes naturally to me. And that I just reasoned you into a corner where the most constructive thing you could say is a backhanded compliment unrelated to the topic at hand.