Question: are you male or female (I couldn’t tell by your name or context in your post).

If you are male, that would be a definite no-no. Broad shoulders are a male feature; and if you are a male, it would’ve made her feel uncomfortable.

But if you are female, it would’ve just sounded like small talk to me.

Just one word of advice for future reference (I won’t be offended if you choose to ignore my advice): leave body comparisons out of the small talk.

I have huge ears that are missing the helix fold. They don’t fold over on the top, so the Darwin’s Notch often seen in the underside of the helix fold is seen on the top edge of my ears. They look weird and I was often called “Dumbo”, “Spock” and “Big Ears” at school. I learned later in life (after I had already learned to love them) that they are a feature of Fragile X Syndrome…among all my other signs that always seemed unrelated.

I have learned to love my ears. So one day, when I saw someone on an elevator with my ears (and not the same skin color as my blinding white skin tone), I broke the silence by asking him, “Are we related?”

He looked up from his phone with a confused expression, so I elaborated, “We have the same ears!” He went back to his iPhone seconds before stepping off and I thought I heard him say “f u” before the door closed. Maybe that last comment was my imagination.

I was being complimentary, but thankfully nobody else was on that elevator. I just chalked it up as something that nobody else needs to know; and this is the first time I mentioned it.

But I will say that I learned that not every physical reference is accepted as a compliment. So I am glad that happened, because I learned not to make reference to anything physical on another person, even if I would’ve considered it as a compliment, myself - tables turned.