AIBU to ask which was the nicest compliment you ever got?

[Flyingfish2019]

Unfortunately I cannot tell which was the nicest compliment I ever got because I could not stay anonymous but I would like to hear yours.

A stranger on the bus:
'It's easy to know a good mum when you see one, you're doing grand'
DD1 aged 3:
'You're the best mummy and my favourite mummy in the world and you're my best friend I love you'

Someone told my boss I was a good mum.

That meant such a lot to me. He regularly repeats it to me which really gees me up.

My other boss told me I was phenomenal. Imagine me being phenomenal??

A very, very handsome French Gardner once said to me when I was only 13yrs old “ you have beautiful eyes” I instantly fell in love with him and it was the start of many a beautiful fantasy.

And another woman once told me when I was in my early twenties that I was so pretty yet was so nice and humble. It gave my self esteem such a boost and made me look at myself differently as I’d always believed I was unattractive.

"it is a rare and wonderful thing to see a woman use a shovel so well"...random old man passing by whilst I was clearing wet leaves from pavement...found out later he was retired groundsman. My immediate thought was I wish I could tell my long departed grandad, he would have been right chuffed

It wasn't spoken, but it was the nicest thing ever happened to me - if I got up to to go the loo in the middle of the night, my now-ex would stir and be 'searching' for me in his sleep. When I got back into bed he'd wrap me up in his arms and pull me in tight. He'd never remember doing it the next day.

A few from my Mam in life, I never judge her & support her even though she is a pest, but my siblings are tough on her.

My old boss always called me the Javier Zanetti of our team, when I googled to see who he was, found him to be the most reliable football player ever, I was proud

Oh a friend once said I was like an eclaire, equally nice inside and out.

This is just such a lovely thread ❤️ Genuine compliments evidently make such a difference to people!

This thread is so lovely. It also made me realise I actually receive a lot of compliments but don't always 'hear' them.

Thanks for sharing everybody.

When I was a student, nervous about the future and everything else and my super strict terrifying lecturer told me not to worry about it because 'you are an engineer'. He said I was a natural engineer and I had nothing to worry about. Back as an undergrad student, only halfway into my degree and pre-masters and pre-employment, I can't place how special it was to have him say that. And he wasn't one for unnecessary praise, so it was extra special.

I’ve spent my entire life as fat and unfit.

15 months ago I had my first swimming lesson. I’ve also lost 5 stone.

I’ve come all the way through all the adult swimming lessons and I can swim better and further than I ever ever thought.

I often swim 3 or 4 times a week.

A newcomer to my classes recently described me as “a machine”.

I cried in the car.

And told EVERYONE

It was said to me more than once.....that i looked like Grace Kelly.

I love yours Bathsheba

Mine is a teenager I work with (children’s SW). She told me last year I remind her of ‘the man on the opticians advert’. Through discussion we identified she meant veteran journalist Sir Trevor McDonald - because i’m ‘wise’. I'm female, white and mid 30s BTW

I was told I looked like Twiggy today 😂 I'm delighted as I'm only 5,2.

In a former job, I had the opportunity to support young people through some very difficult issues. At my leaving do, one young man who had confided in me quite a lot made a speech. He said there was a kind of magic about me because the world sometimes looked so dark that they didn't think they could face it any longer, but after coming to talk to me, everything looked much brighter.

I will always treasure that comment, and I'm so proud of what those young people have gone on to achieve and the little part that I had in enabling that. I miss getting that kind of feedback in my job now!

Oh, and a super-grumpy employee who was always exceptionally suspicious of management in any form brought me a bottle of wine when she was restructured into another team, and said "as managers go, you haven't been too bad really, so I wanted to say thank you for all your support." I was dumbfounded but delighted. From that particular member of staff, it was high praise indeed!

A colleague about 5 years younger than me introduced me to her friend as 'who she wants to be when she grows up' she's amazing so it's lovely to have her sort of look up to me.

A male colleague said to me at Christmas that I was the only person he'd ever seen who got better looking and slimmer after 3 kids. I was so chuffed as I feel I've aged loads and am perma tired.

An old boss of mine was a good laugh but known as being completely unemotional and having a heart of stone (not in a nasty way, but he hadn't had a great family life growing up and so stayed very distant from people).

In my appraisal one year he looked me right in the eye and told me that when he saw how I looked after my team and always put everyone else before myself, I made him want to be a better person. We laughed and I thanked him, then had a little cry in the loo afterwards.

My grown up niece introduced me to her friends at a party as Cool Aunty Impossible and said I'm her 'parenting goals' because of the way I've raised my girls. Then poured me a large G&T. She's my favourite.

Random, but I was told by a lad serving me in Burger King Euston that I had beautiful eyes. It was cheesy and lame AF, but I had a bf squint as a child and am practically blind in one eye.

I was mercifully bullied as a kid and had to endure two "cosmetic" operations as a child to try and correct the squint. They did a good job and as a teen my eyes were starting to look "normal", but it affected my confidence a lot.

Plus, my late grandad used to say to me when I was upset aa a child about the name calling, that I had beautiful eyes.

This random lad saying something that my grandad used to say, so many years after my grandad's death was touching. Especially as I didn't think my eyes were beautiful in the slightest.

It was a wonderful compliment and did actually slightly boost my esteem.

This thread is amazing, reading with tears in my eyes. (soft sod)
One of my customers once told me I have the longest eyelashes they had ever seen, I just shrugged it off and said my brothers are longer.
A stranger, older woman came up to me in a club and told me I'm beautiful. I like to think I was exuding confidence without arrogance.
Friend of mine told me if he ever had a daughter he would want her to be like me, that's probably my favourite.
Lots about my son being wonderful and a credit to me, single mum, I should probably take more notice of these.
Best friend told me I'm the strongest person she knows. Emotionally she means.
My son telling me I'm a good driver, or he cant tell the difference between me and Taylor swift singing, or I'm his mate.

When our son was in intensive care, I had a text message from the wife of a friend of my DH's. We've been pals for years, but not close like they are. She told me she'd always admired me as I put up with no shit, and had brought my boys up to be lovely caring lads. She said I was the strongest person she knew and that I'd get DS through his illness through sheer willpower.

I cried when I read it. We got him through it.