To ask your favourite ever compliment?

[AnotherEffingOrangeRevel]

What's the best compliment you've ever received?

My personal favourite ever has been "You've got a nice nose. Like Boris Becker".

[FelicityGubbins]

Best back handed compliment was from one of my dc, who told me I was lovely and squashy to cuddle into

[KERALA1]

That I looked like slinky malinky the black cat from the books (from Dd aged 5 I was going out in a tight black dress)

[grannytomine]

My grandson was asking about dying, his granddad had just died, not my husband but the other side of the family. He asked me if I was going to die, hard question and didn't want to lie so I said, "Yes I will but hopefully not for along time, I want to see you all grown up with babies of your own and then I will be a great granny." He smiled at me and said, "But you are a great granny."

Best thing anyone ever said to me, from the heart and shows I am doing OK even if I don't always think I am.

[MinnowAndTheBear]

A genuine one from my grandad when DS1 was tiny. I popped in to visit him and as I walked through the door he said proudly, "Here she is, the perfect little mother". It was meant in such a loving and kind way. He was known for his tactlessness and inappropriate comments so it made it all the better!

[grannytomine]

Minnow that's lovely, grandparent/grandchild moments are special. Not in competition with parents, its a very different relationship but when it works it is great.

[witchofzog]

I used to volunteer at a mental health centre. The guy in reception was a lovely man in his sixties who was a real pleasure to talk to. He said to me on my last day that he was never blessed with children but if he had had a daughter he would like her to be just like me. That still makes me smile now years later ☺

[cronetto]

DS reception school report mentioned that he 'understands fascination' which I thought it was a lovely thing to say about a child.

[MotherKat]

(Nb I have 12 week old twins so I'm a bit emotional)
DH this morning, "I chose you, I still choose you, I'd marry again you today".
I had a red blotchy face from crying, big saggy tummy from diastalsis and a c-section and baby sick in my hair.

[cogitosum]

That if I went to prison I'd become top dog!

[cronetto]

Also, my FIL (who does little right in my eyes) once heralded my arrival into the room at 9 and a half months pregnant with 'ah! the ship in full sail!'. I loved that!

[MilkTwoSugarsThanks]

"You're the first thing I think of in the morning, and the last thing I think of at night. How did you do that?"

[fassone]

"You're the kindest person I know."

[Elledouble]

"If I had legs like that, I'd wear mini skirts all the time too"

[notagiraffe]

My favourite ever was a woman who came up to me in a shopping centre and said she'd seen me around a lot with my twins and they always looked really clean and well cared for, which couldn't be easy with twins. Thirteen years later, I still remember. I was off my head with sleep deprivation and PND, and DS2 had so many severe illnesses he was skeletal and threw up all the time. That a stranger had noticed it over a period of time how hard I was trying meant the world to me.

[Liiinooo]

When I was in my mid to late 30s I worked in an office with a group who were all 15-20 years younger than me. Obviously they thought I was Methuselah. One day I was telling the story of the night I met my husband - his brother was at the same event and he also asked me out that night. I declined his brother and accepted my husbands date request ( I didn't know they were related at the time) and the next time I met his brother was on our wedding day.

One young man listened to this story and gasped in genuine amazement 'Blimey, they both asked you out - you must have been GORGEOUS when you were young'. We all cracked up and he really didn't understand why.

[Oysterbabe]

There's a route I run sometimes and there's some graffiti on a bench that says "You Look Nice Today"
Always cheers me up.

[AlpacaPicnic]

That I had an amazing smile!
It was out of the blue and genuinely meant from a total stranger... I'd moved out of his way, he'd said thank you, I smiled back and he went 'ooh...'
It wasn't meant creepily or anything which was lovely. And I'm fat and not complimented very often which made it extra lovely.

[Ludoole]

Early one morning while in bed with my dp he said " You look better without your glasses on".
I replied with " You look better without my glasses on"

[NoncommittalToSparkleMotion]

An older man who'd had a few in a convenience store said to me:

"Know how old I am? I meet a beautiful girl and I'm wondering if your grandmother is single."

[RosieposiePuddingandPi]

A colleague once told me that I had eyes like a Disney princess (i.e. big with long eyelashes). I've always hated my eyes so that one's stuck with me

[CoodleMoodle]

DD (2) sniffed me and said "Oh Mummy, you smell nice!" (Normally she sniffs things and says "pooo-eeeeyyy!" as a default) (Two minutes later she did just that but I don't care.) (I'm fully aware she got 'you smell nice' from Peppa, but again...)

Most backhanded was DH a few years ago. We were playing a game with a friend, and he had to answer the question: "If Coodle was a fruit, what fruit would she be?"
DH: Ooh, a peach.
Friend: Aw, that's nice. Why?
DH: Because she has such a fuzzy face!

Friend and I sat there open-mouthed, and he looked so pleased with himself until he realised we were ! Apparently he meant I have a soft face...

[x2boys]

I was told I looked like Boy George but that they though he was really pretty this was 20 odd years ago before either Boy George or I got fat and bloated

[Kiwiinkits]

A boyfriend once told me I was svelte. I hang on to that compliment like a balloon.

I also love the compliments I get from the kids when I get dressed up to go out with DH. They say stuff like "you look beautiful mummy" which is just delicious. DH never compliments me but I bank the ones from the kids.

[DottyButtons]

Colleague told me that if her family ever got unwell she would want their nurse to be like me. Made my eyes leak a little did that.

[Pleasemrstweedie]

Random man in the street this morning.

"Your boobs are enormous. I wish I had three hands."

Outed meself now.