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Nice things people have said to you

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WhoRemembersMarbleBars · 29/09/2023 19:16

What are the nicest things someone has said to you, that have really stayed with you? A warm and fuzzy Friday night thread ☺️
These are mine:

Nice things about my DC, someone once told me "they are so polite, you can tell they've had a lot of time spent on them ❤️"

A pupil (ASD, ADHD) I teach, told me he wanted to be back in my class because I was "a joyful teacher".

What are yours?

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Shadypaws23 · 29/09/2023 21:57

One from my last job, a letter, changed slightly for anon reasons

"Thank you for being so calm, kind and reassuring, we were terrified and you were lovely. We've spoken about you many times and to some people you may just be that lady on the phone but to us you are our hero. Just know what you did that day meant everything to us and we are so grateful"

(I cried at work after getting that)

From colleagues. That I'm always calm and explain things well so that's why they come to me to ask questions

I'm not calm Grin and I have the worst imposter syndrome!

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WhoRemembersMarbleBars · 29/09/2023 22:14

These are so lovely ❤️ thank you for sharing.

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lifeturnsonadime · 29/09/2023 22:25

I was having a shit time trying to get back from the USA to the UK with my anxious autistic teen who was really struggling with boarding the plane. We had 2 failed attempts over 3 days and on the third attempt we took an internal short flight to get somewhere we could get a day flight back to the UK rather than a night flight which DS thought as making him more anxious.

Anyway we had special assistance and my son was taken on to the flight on a wheelchair, I also had my DD who was 9 and wearing an astronaut suit and who was brilliant but was worried she'd never get home, and even then it was very challenging to the point that the American Airlines stewardess was concerned that he would kick off after take off and I had to give her reassurances that he wouldn't!

When we landed at NYC I was collecting the luggage from the carousel and an absolutely beautiful American woman came up to me and told me that she'd been watching us and that I was a brilliant mother. I cried. That's stayed with me forever. I needed to hear that that day.

We did make it back home on the day flight 2 days later on a BA flight where the stewardesses knew my plight and we're brilliant bringing me food from the first class service and champagne. My DS has now completely got over his fear of flying, thank goodness!

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HeyMicky · 29/09/2023 22:31

A teacher at school wrote in my report that I was a 'rara Avis' (rare bird) - he meant it in a totally complimentary manner and I look back and I'm proud of my 17 year old self

DD2s teacher has told me she was thrilled to see she had DD in her class

We did a team psychometric test and every single colleague flagged me as fighting for the underdog. I was very touched

AnneLovesGilbert · 29/09/2023 22:37

I was also called joyful the other day! She asked how my baby was doing and I said he was great and is a joyful little soul and she said how lovely that was and that she’s not surprised as I’m a very joyful person. Made my day.

TinyKittenPaw · 29/09/2023 22:43

Lovely thread:

two comments that I think of a lot:

A friend who I really rate told me (at a low time in my life when I was feeling bad about myself) ‘if I could only pick one person for my daughter to be like - it would be you’ I welled up and will always remember it.

  1. a man I I was dating casually kissed me, passionately in his car, and the. Said in a really heartfelt way, ‘you’re so beautiful I can’t believe I’m kidding you’. When I am slim I am pretty but not beautiful but that was the most heartfelt compliments I’ve ever had and I will remember it always.

I’m currently with a partner that doesn’t rate me so I think of this often.

TinyKittenPaw · 29/09/2023 22:44

*wow so many typos!! Kissing not kidding and I’m sure you can work out the rest!

ShazzaF · 29/09/2023 22:52

I have a 5 month old and a nearly two year old, so I've not been in the parenting business for very long. But recently my mom said to me that she'd been telling her colleagues how struck she is by what a firm but warm and patient mother I am, and how she wishes she could have been more like me.

I don't think she realises, but it meant the absolute world to me in so many ways. I've thought about it every day since she said it.

Unexpectedlysinglemum · 29/09/2023 22:53

You were born to be a mother (a friend).

LilacRain12 · 29/09/2023 22:56

A hairdresser telling me I had beautiful eyes.
Being told I was very likeable.
Told a few times 'Everyone loves you.'
A colleague telling me that if she was ever in a crisis, she would want me there with her.
Unfortunately I can't accept any of it. I find myself ugly and odd.

YewandOak · 29/09/2023 22:56

This will sound really odd and sexist,but knowing the bloke like I do (he was my kitchen manager and had trained me),it was a compliment. After a really busy shift he looked at me and said:
''You've got balls,you did really well today - I'm proud of you''

I've treasured that compliment ever since and still work the way he wanted in every job after,which has earnt me respect and a promotion.

I still think the world of him even now though we haven't worked together for years.

Lucy Long Socks · 29/09/2023 23:05

I get told I'm pretty sometimes, but every time I go out somebody tells me they like my hair. Which cheers me up.
Makes up for my rubbish personality. I have no friends :(

XenoBitch · 29/09/2023 23:06

I feel sad in that I can't think of anything.

Years ago, I had a job interview (didn't get it) and the person showing me around the workplace said she hoped I got the job as she thought I was fab.

Puffalicious · 29/09/2023 23:09

A friend's wife once told us of their struggle to find childcare for their pfb. They had visited nurseries- none of which they liked- and decided a child-minder would be best. Again they visited various which they had lukewarm feelings for, particularly my friend, her DH. They visited another & on leaving he said to her 'You know, she reminds me so much of Puffalicious- so warm & fun& you can tell she's- really switched on -exactly the person I'd like to care for DD'". I remember this still as their DD is in her final year of high school. I was so touched.

Gorgeous friend when I was a bit stressy about going on a holiday with some others who are much slimmer/ stylish than me, 'You are divine. And beautiful all the way through under the skin & clothes'. It's stayed with me for years.

DP whenever I'm a bit hesitant/ stressed 'Remember, everyone wants to be *my first & second name ' It's so simple, but shows how much he respects me as well as loves me.

Puffalicious · 29/09/2023 23:11

Lucy Long Socks · 29/09/2023 23:05

I get told I'm pretty sometimes, but every time I go out somebody tells me they like my hair. Which cheers me up.
Makes up for my rubbish personality. I have no friends :(

That's not true. You've just not met your tribe yet. 💛

Puffalicious · 29/09/2023 23:11

XenoBitch · 29/09/2023 23:06

I feel sad in that I can't think of anything.

Years ago, I had a job interview (didn't get it) and the person showing me around the workplace said she hoped I got the job as she thought I was fab.

And I'll bet you are fab! 💜

XenoBitch · 29/09/2023 23:14

Puffalicious · 29/09/2023 23:11

And I'll bet you are fab! 💜

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Thank you :)

I try and think that people can show you are nice in other ways.. as in they like to spend time with you etc. It does not have to be words.

weegiemum · 29/09/2023 23:14

My dh's best friend (who is also a very good friend of mine) recently told me I was the bravest person he'd ever met.

I'm not sure it's true but I do live with both neurologists and psychiatric conditions that are hard going and am currently waiting on a biopsy result for probable breast cancer.

It certainly was a boost though!

feathers7 · 29/09/2023 23:18

I'm almost 50, but when I was about 12, a stranger told me that I had a really beautiful smile.
I was shy, awkward and overweight then.
I'll never forget how happy that comment made me.

caringcarer · 29/09/2023 23:21

My Mum died 10 years ago she was the kindest person I've ever known. I went back to my home town to visit my sister who was ill and I met an old friend of my Mum's. I stopped to chat to her for a few minutes and she was struggling along with a shopping bag so I offered to carry it for her. She stopped, and looking straight at me and had a tear in her eye and said you remind me so much of your Mum. She would have offered to carry my shopping too. I look nothing like my Mum so I can only assume she meant I was kind like my Mum was.

Plonkandplonkers · 29/09/2023 23:22

I had taken DS2 on a bus and had been cuddling him lots and chatting to him. When we got to the final stop, a woman said, "you're a lovely mum. I was watching you and you're lovely. And I used to be a children's nurse". I don't find being a mum easy at all and I'm regularly upset with myself that I'm not doing a better job. It was so nice.

Puffalicious · 29/09/2023 23:23

XenoBitch · 29/09/2023 23:14

Thank you :)

I try and think that people can show you are nice in other ways.. as in they like to spend time with you etc. It does not have to be words.

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Yes! And they'll want to spend time with you because you are fab!

XenoBitch · 29/09/2023 23:25

Puffalicious · 29/09/2023 23:23

Yes! And they'll want to spend time with you because you are fab!

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The different love languages apply to all, I think.

JustAnotherMNUserPassing · 29/09/2023 23:25

I went out with a friend tonight and wore a new dress that I was a bit nervous about wearing (it's a very colourful one, done in the style of Van Gogh's Starry Night) and I had a woman say I look absolutely stunning and as someone who struggles with their self esteem I nearly cried from happiness 🥹

Anothagoatthis · 29/09/2023 23:26

A kid I used to work with in foster care “ I wish today was my birthday so I’d make a special wish. That wish would be that you were my mum” that one was bittersweet. I felt sad for him but honoured he thought I’d be a good mum to him. After I left that job he’d tell his social worker often (who I was friends with) how much he missed me.

Also an old friend I met up with on a trip to America recently “ you’re such a beautiful person”

and this one is a bit vain but a random girl outside a club said “ you are absolutely beautiful you look like a model” and btw I’m 5ft 2 and was a bit chubby then so it wasn’t based on my figure for sure, so I was somewhat more flattered since it was a compliment about my face! also I had a guy the same night tell me I was the prettiest girl he’d seen that evening. Oh to be young again lol