Unexpected compliments you have had.

[bubbleblower85]

Hi all

What were your nice/kind words or compliments you have had that surprised you either from strangers or those you know?

Some I can remember right now....
In another life, my then line manager smiled at me and said I didn't need make up implying I was pretty bare faced.

One colleague told me that I had a lovely smile, also got told this by a laughter yoga lady the first time I met her.
Same colleague said I had a lovely way of putting people at ease.

A mindfulness massage therapist after massing me (without any conversation between us)
randomly said to me that she feels I have a lot to the world and I should believe myself more!

All these caught me by surprise and warmed my cold cold heart 😂

The guy at the piercing place said I had a great tragus

Dd's friend said I'm 'really pretty.' From a teenage girl, I'll take that.

@RockinHorseShit

Years ago I had a lovely, if a bit bonkers compliment from a very unexpected source early one morning on my way to work in London. I'd had a really hard & late night supporting a devastated friend & was absolutely exhausted & felt like shit? I heard singing coming from the road ahead & up pops Spike Milligan on a bicycle on his way to my local news agents for his morning paper, he slows right down as he passes me & shouts, "good morning pretty lady, your light of goodness is shining from all the way up the road. & off he road

😲 oh wow, how lovely of him.

A colleague walked in the office to ask me something and I looked up and smiled at her and she said 'I always love coming in here, you brighten up my day!'

@mbosnz

I remember a supermarket checkout worker saying how impressed she was that I had my newborn and my less than two year old, and we were up and dressed and out shopping so early - it must have been 10.30am'ish. It made my day, and was the beginning of the end of PND for me. It made me think that maybe I can, instead of 'I definitely can't'.

Oh I love this!

I've told this one before on here .

When we were at university, a young man in a bar stopped my brother and said "aren't you Nadjas brother? Tell her I would drag my dick through a mile of broken glass just to wank in her shadow"

I never found out who he was but many years and many wrinkles later I still take it as a compliment!

I was on the school run when another mum
walked past me and said "your hair is
Just stunning!" Totally unexpected compliment on a day that I was struggling to control my hair 😂

@Idroppedthescrewinthetuna

Was talking to a client over the phone, never seen them face to face. She said she was looking forward to coming in to meet me. I asked if she had ever been before. She said yes, and she always remembers a young girl tripping up. She then said this girl had the most strikingly beautiful eyes she had ever seen. It was me on my first day, 4 years before we spoke. My eyes divide people. They are either beautiful or demonic.

Also, at the age of 30 I got Id'd for a bottle of wine. I was so so happy! I don't have ID, so the cashier asked me to give her a smile. I did smile, she then said 'yes, I can serve you'
I asked her what made the difference, she said 'slight crows feet'
So lovely but taken away so quick

Ooh post a pic of your eyes!

I've been told many times that my 9yo son is beautiful. He is autistic and non verbal so he has a 'mystery' about him to strangers which I think is why they say that. But he looks like me, so ;)

Love reading these!

I was at a formal event years ago and was wearing a dress I loved but it was quite unique so felt a little self-conscious. When I went to the bar for a drink, the barman, who was about 10 years younger than me, handed me my drink and said quietly, "Just want to say that you look really lovely tonight."

It was a genuine, kind compliment and it made my night!

On a long haul flight to Florida with my 3 children aged 11, 8 and 6 the stewardess said we had the best behaved children on the plane. No end of planning and prep and a bag of tricks went into that journey to keep them entertained but that comment made my day. It still makes me happy and they are now aged 30, 27 & 25!

When I was just mid-teens I went for a college interview and one of the board members of something were sitting in on it as they had an inspection from what I remember. Anyway once I was finished with my interview the elder gentleman asked to speak to me in a side room. He asked my age and then told me I am very ‘articulate’ - I’ve got to be honest at the time I wasn’t sure what it meant so I had to do a quick Google when I left. But even then that didn’t end up being the only time I had similar compliments about being well spoken when I was a teen.. which gave me a real confidence boost and I think honestly did a lot to pave the way to where I am now.

But more recently the most uplifting things I’ve had are about my parenting to DD, she’s in her terrible two’s at the moment and sometimes I feel like a lost cause when she’s having a wobble over something all. But my step-dad and my SIL have both recently complimented how polite and well mannered she is, SIL looked after her for the day last week and said on my return that there wasn’t once she has asked for something and not said please and was generally very polite all day. Step-dad complimented my control over her trying to push boundaries. It just makes me feel more like I’m not failing as a parent and reminds me that most 2 year olds go through a difficult patch of tantrums.

Last week we had a supply teacher in my class (Special Needs school)
I was working with a quite tricky non verbal child and looked up to find the teacher watching me. She quietly commented 'you have a really lovely way with the children you know'
It made my day as after 16+ years there I sometimes wonder if I've lost my mojo

And a couple of years ago.. at a camp (special needs charity run summer camp for families with disabled children as my youngest has autism) another Mum caught me as I was coming from the loos and said ' can I have a word?'
My heart sank ... what have one of my now nearly grown up kids done?
She then said ' how did you do it? You kids are so amazing and helpful and fantastic people'
I actually cried because just a couple if years earlier my DS1 (no special needs) had been the teen everyone hated for his appalling behaviour!!!! (He's lovely now)

That one will stay with me forever, a lovely reminder that we got through the tough times !

I have also been the recipient of a 'lovely cervix' comment.
I was once stopped by a lady we often passed on the school run who just wanted to say how lovely my 3 DCs were.
I have also been told I build rapport quickly - I work in a profession where this is a useful skill.

My 11mo Schnauzer is the star of our local dog park.

He plays well, gets nervous dogs and puppies out of themselves and avoids troublesome dogs.
People call out to him by name (pretty sure they don’t know mine) and one passer-by called her partner to bring down their dog “because Sgtmajordog is in the park” .
But the greatest compliment was when a couple who’d just rescued a massive Cane Corso and weren’t sure of his reactivity asked if they could introduce him (under strict control) to DDog first, since he’s unthreatening and unlikely to be phased by something 5x his size. All went well and I was very proud of DDog’s attitude in what could potentially have been a difficult situation.

All thanks to him but I allow myself to bask in his reflected glory…

A compliment made directly to me? “You could be a talk show host, like Graham Norton!”
Meaning, I think, that people feel at ease and conversation flows. Not that I ply my guests with drink until they make fools of themselves!

I bask in the effected glory

Please ignore that last sentence. Not sure how it got there!

A woman came up to me when I was exiting a shop and told me how beautiful I looked I could have cried I was very low at the time we got on to talking about clothes/ colours and I told her that I never wear black she had tears in her eyes and said that’s exactly what her mum used to say she said wearing black meant death she said your outfit has really cheered me up you look so beautiful what I really wanted to say was she had really boosted me she just didn’t know it

We have our own business and get quite a lot of compliments for that, people saying how they have always heard good things of us etc. But that I always feel is for the whole team. I never had plans to own a business but am by nature fairly organised. A friend told me last weekend that our group of friends would never cope without me as I sort everything. That really touched me. I’m never the pretty one as I’ve always been overweight but I will take organised.

On the smear front the last time the nurse told me I had a fabulous pelvic floor (2 massive babies, both c section births means I hadn’t used that exit to damage it, but it made me laugh!)

I will add I have had several compliments about my parenting although I don’t know at times 😂

An older lady complimented me on my coat the other day she said it’s so colourful I seen you walking up here I just wanted to say it’s so nice

Oh I meant to say I always make a point of telling people they look great, for instance in changing rooms, as it is so nice to hear.

Was with a newish boyfriend in the pub and got talking to a young couple. The girl said they were so envious of us and hoped they would have a long and happy married life like us😂😂😂

We were taking my newborn daughter to be registered and a lady stopped me to look in the pram and say how cute she was. She then asked how old she was and when I said 4 weeks old, she said “oh my god you look amazing! So glamorous, when my baby was 4 weeks old I was still in my pyjamas with baby sick all over me!”

I didn’t feel the least bit amazing or glamorous but I really appreciated it!

This one is kind of sexist but well meaning!

Parallel parked my car into a tight space. As I was getting out an older gentleman came up to me and asked ‘did you just park that car there?!’

I cautiously said yes as I thought he might be about to tell me off for parking somewhere I shouldn’t but he said ‘well done!’ and walked off!

(I used to live at the top of a hill with residential parking, so had to reverse parallel park uphill every day which has meant I can literally park anywhere now)

Was in hospital having surgery and the nurse putting on my surgical stockings told me I had really pretty feet.

An ex colleague also told me that I had lovely feet but this was after taking photos of them .

@DreamTheMoors

My friend and I were at the market, got out the car & were crossing the large lot when a youngish woman came up — crying, hysterical, saying if she didn’t have such & such amount of money by the end of the day, the care home would toss her mother out. Whether that was true or not I don’t know, but I’m convinced the young woman thought it was true. She seemed very genuine. I gave her 20 quid. After we got inside, I asked my friend if I was stupid and a mark, because I felt sheepish. She replied, “No, Dream - you did what you were supposed to do.” I took that as a compliment.

I think that was a very nice gesture on your part but actually I think you were had!