The best compliment you ever had.

[NovemberMorn]

Just to cheer myself up after reading a really sad thread.
Can you remember and tell us the best compliment you have ever been given?
Go on, blow your own trumpet, we dont do it often enough.

I had singing lessons 5 years ago as always wanted to perform. This led on to singing (opera) at residential homes for the elderly. On my first outing I was nervous but had some wonderful comments with many residents stating they felt transported back to world war 2 and four people even started to cry.

Two at work.

Coming from a poorer background and afflicted with a working class accent whilst in my first graduate job.

Prof said " Don't ever let anyone here tell you that you not as good as anyone else"

Also after doing a research presentation, as a very nervous public speaker, a chap in my lab, who was published in the leading journal in our field, said " you could give that talk to a 1000 people" I felt validation

A few weeks ago, an old colleague told me she’d run into a pupil that I’d previously taught. This “boy”
was now a man on his 20s and as he chatted to my old colleague she mentioned that she was meeting with me for a catch up. This guy, who I had taught when he was 9 years old said “Oh I loved Mrs Sharky Bait. She was the best teacher I ever had”. So lovely to be remembered fondly.

Comments on my appearance don’t really mean much to me because I’ve usually heard them before and secretly I agree 😂 so my favourite one was ‘when you smile it’s like the sun has come out’…however now that I think about it maybe they suggesting my resting face is quite over cast!
I’m envious of PPs who received compliments on their arms, feet, self-assurance and public speaking because mine are all shit.

I had my son in my early 20s, and until I was in my mid-40s (very rapid weight gain, likely peri) I was always mistaken for his sister.

My mother came to a parents evening with us once, and my son's teacher (she was new) turned to me and said "that's nice that big sis came too!"

I’m not one to normally get any compliments on my looks and I’m currently and an over weight, near 50 year old, who’s trying to grow out a pixie cut. I’m aiming for a short bob and getting there but some days it looks just like the page boy cut DM made me have in the summer of ‘81! Anyway, I went into a local shop, the lady serving was young and clearly had a style very different to mine. She said Oh my god, I love your hair! I said really!!! And she said yes, I love the cut (I explained it wasn’t a cut, more a growing out) and she said well it suits you and I wish I had the confidence to cut my hair just like it. Made my day and might stop me reaching for the scissors on bad hair days!

People cry if I sing too but it’s not a compliment in my case! It kept the bears away when we were hiking in Canada though.

That's a really lovely story.
My mum ws in a residential care home, and when singers or musicians came in, they really lifted the spirits of everyone in there. The old-time songs in particular evoked many memories for the residents, many in their 80s and 90's.

I hope you are still singing.

“I have been about you.”

I have another singing story.😄

I always wanted to be a singer, I had two chances, but nerves got in the way and I never pursued it.
But one instance I remember, I was working at a nightclu. in Manchester. I was in the loo, singing to myself. When I came out, one of the resident singers (who later became very famous in a pop group) said I had a good voice and I should go for it in my dream of getting a job in the music industry.

I was too shy, and it's one of the few regrets I have now.

I once visited a fancy salon and treated myself to a very expensive facial. After I came out I popped into the coffee shop opposite and when I was sitting there, a women came up to me and said…”gosh…I hope you don’t mind me saying, but your skin looks amazing”. Well….needless to say that made my day. Came home and told my friend about it and she giggled and said the exact same thing had happened to her at that salon 😂 We figured they must pay someone to trail their clients to make them feel good and hope that they will come back!

Grandson when I got some long words on Wordiply : "Nana is crazy smart! "

I was on a bus in the 80s with my gorgeous friend nattering and excited about a night out and as a local boy got off, he gently tapped me on the shoulder and said he thought I looked really lovely. I was literally open mouthed and as the bus pulled away, he gave me a lovely, warm smile. A few years later, I was standing on the bus and the same young man insisted I take his seat. What a gentleman.

That's so nice....I hoped you were going to say you and he eventually married.😍

I parallel parked perfectly in a really tight spot outside my house. I live opposite a pub. All the blokes drinking/smoking out front gave me a spontaneous round of applause.

A couple of posts have triggered memories.
When I was at school, I had an embarrassing outbreak of warts on my hand (thank God they went pretty quickly) but when I was 13 or 14, it was a catastrophe.
Even more horrible was that we had weekly country dance lessons, where hand holding was often part of the dance ... and what made that even more excruciating ... it was a mixed school.

My friend (who had a big mouth) told the most popular lad in the class that I was embarrassed, and when the dance started, he walked over, did a little bow, and held out his hand, which I had to take, then he actually bent down and kissed my horrible warty hand.

I was mortified at the time....but decades later I think what a kind gesture that was.
If he acted like that at 14, I bet he grew up into a real gentleman.

What a lovely feel good thread, this has inspired me to compliment others more.

I was once sitting on a bench in a little square waiting for my now husband to finish work and a guy sat next to me and said 'I hope you don't mind me sitting here, I knew that if I didn't speak to you I would regret it for the rest of my life.' I was very flattered and said thank you, but then had to break the news to him that I was in fact engaged. I really admired him for making sure he had no regrets as I have lots of things I wish I had said or done but didnt.

at the races in New York. Gorgeous charming New Yorker told me “you ARE grace Kelly though” and that I was “ridiculously elegant”. Loved that as it was so unusual compared to the usual sexy/fit etc.

What did they say?

They said someone was being big headed (which is daft on a thread specially about compliments)

That I am a fabulous and brilliant mum.

That I am a fabulous and brilliant mum.

This is so true and reading these posts is reminding me that kind words stay with us for years and years
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My son came home on Friday and as he was telling me about his day at school, he very nonchalantly told me that in English, he had to write about someone who inspired him and he was writing about me. Aw, it made me choke up, it was the biggest compliment I could ever wish for 🤩

On my wedding day as I was walking down the aisle a child (approx 3) of one of the guests took an in take of breath and said “She’s a princess!” That made my day.