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What's the smallest compliment you've had?

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BigDahliaFan · 21/02/2025 08:31

I got told yesterday by the girl doing my nails that I had lovely long nail beds. I'm not even sure what a nail bed is but I'll take it.

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TemporaryCarer · 21/02/2025 19:08

Ds, aged about 4 needed the toilet while I was doing the supermarket shop. Off we went to the toilets. I decided to have a wee while I was there, with him still in the cubicle.

He shouted out "Mummy, why do you have a furry bottom?" Before I could die of the shame or think of an answer he added "It's nice, I like it!"

He's 19 and 6ft1 now, I've never mentioned it since. The looks of the other women in the vicinity when I came out of the cubicle are etched in my memory forever. If it wasn't for the shame of announcing my lack of bush control I'd take it as a compliment.

Fairyvocals · 21/02/2025 19:14

A dentist told me I have “the healthiest gums in north-west London”. <preens>

Gliblet · 21/02/2025 19:17

I've just been told by an ophthalmologist that I have "beautiful crisp optic nerve endings" 😶

TheChosenTwo · 21/02/2025 19:24

Gliblet · 21/02/2025 19:17

I've just been told by an ophthalmologist that I have "beautiful crisp optic nerve endings" 😶

Wow! Bet you walked out of these 10ft tall and feeling a million dollars 😂😂

ohyesido · 21/02/2025 19:28

I once took part in an identity line up at the local police station, apparently I was a very good suspect

snoopfroggy · 21/02/2025 19:31

BobbyBiscuits · 21/02/2025 10:49

I was told by a guy I was seeing that he suspected I used to be a prostitute because I was so good in bed. No joke. 🤢🤣

I have had this too with a fling about 20 years ago. I mean, ffs... grim! Also have had a man come up to about 30 years ago and tell me I had very sexy eyebrows. Weirdos.

WhoGonnaCheckMeBoo · 21/02/2025 19:34

I have small kneecaps

Ihitthetarget · 21/02/2025 19:37

"You're not as fat as you look" - said to me by a shop assistant when I fitted into a sample dress that she thought would be too small for me 😆

Overtheatlantic · 21/02/2025 19:42

That my boobs are the reason other women get their boobs done. I was 23 and they hadn’t sagged yet.

ShinyWorthKeeping · 21/02/2025 19:42

I used to be a waitress and once we received a complaint by email about the rude staff and cold food, it ended by saying that the waitress on the till was brilliant and complimented her daughters on their my little pony tee shirts and even knew which ponies they were wearing! That was me!

I'm very short and very curvy, big boobs, big bum and thighs, smaller waist. Someone once told me I'd have the most perfect figure if I was stretched half a foot taller...

CountryShepherd · 21/02/2025 19:49

I am always complimented on my long eyelashes - I don't do anything special with them. Once I was having a makeover in a dept store, the lady gathered all the assistants round to have a look.

Rosietru · 21/02/2025 19:55

6 weeks after having a baby the doctor saying she had never come across a uterus as large as mine.

TokyoSushi · 21/02/2025 20:00

I have a 'favourable cervix' makes a smear tear very easy apparently 😇

babyfornine · 21/02/2025 20:38

Nice knees

bifurCAT · 21/02/2025 20:44

BigDahliaFan · 21/02/2025 08:31

I got told yesterday by the girl doing my nails that I had lovely long nail beds. I'm not even sure what a nail bed is but I'll take it.

I got one like this... I'm extremely pale and my skin is virtually transparent. Apparently, I'm great for teaching vein anatomy

MrsFryingpan · 21/02/2025 20:48

TokyoSushi · 21/02/2025 20:00

I have a 'favourable cervix' makes a smear tear very easy apparently 😇

I was told I have 'friendly cervix' by the GP who was inserting my coil. I was strangely chuffed 😂

ladygindiva · 21/02/2025 21:20

Daleksatemyshed · 21/02/2025 09:34

I've been told three times that I have nice veins in my arms when I've had blood tests.

Came to say this 🤣

FeedMeWell · 21/02/2025 22:08

You don't sweat much for a fat bird.

quantumbutterfly · 21/02/2025 22:12

FeedMeWell · 21/02/2025 22:08

You don't sweat much for a fat bird.

😂Reader I married him...

OnlyFrench · 21/02/2025 22:13

An anaesthetist told me I was really good at counting backwards.....I was 50.

sashh · 22/02/2025 08:04

FinallyHere · 21/02/2025 13:47

Work evening due, I blurted out how good a colleague who at work usually dresses quite scruffily looked in his evening dress.

He smiled and said I wasn't so bad myself.

Think he meant it in a good way. Hope so anyway.

Oh that reminds me.

Staff Xmas do when I was late teens. I generally don't do make up and clothes but I had for this, including swapping my glasses for contacts.

Part way through the meal I heard my name from the person next to me. Apparently he had been sitting next to me and not recognised me, he'd asked someone else who I was.

superplumb · 22/02/2025 10:14

A gyno told me i had child bearing hips while he had his hand in me!!

Hoppinggreen · 22/02/2025 10:43

My finest moment was being told by a friends French husband
"you don't cook like an English woman"

marmaladeandpeanutbutter · 22/02/2025 10:50

I had an echocardiogram a while back and was told that my valves were lovely and clear, and working beautifully 😁

ladygindiva · 22/02/2025 10:52

I got told "well done" by the surgeon who did my c section for my twins being over 6 lbs each... Felt a bit of a fraud as all I'd done was lay in bed for months eating crap and watching netflix

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