Yelp interpretations of a man using the compliment "sweet" LOL
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(I'll admit, that one can be a head scratcher at times)
Notable alternative suggestion to the compliment "sweet":
"Tell them you imagine ejecting your kids onto their hair and styling it into a mohawk. That's a compliment."
I'm not a girl, so I've never had this experience before. Here in the south, if one goes to a family restaurant, s/he/they get called sweetie or darling for about an hour.
LOL
It can be taken a bunch of ways , at least for me...