What’s the most random compliment you’ve ever received?

[K8Davidson]

I was having blood test yesterday and the phlebotomist said I had excellent veins. I’m not sure what makes veins excellent, but I was glad to hear it!

What’s the most random compliment you’ve ever received?

Ha! I remember at about 19 my best mate mum trying to convince her to go on a date with one of our platonic male friends because he had "cow eyes", which she assured us was definitely a good thing 😂

Traps? He talking about your breasts?

😂trapezius muscles - from each side of the neck to the top of each shoulder. Beloved by the Rock.

My cholesterol is REALLY good... I asked if she meant 'for a very fat person' and she said 'no, it's very good for a human, any human at all!'. She was quite surprised.

Er... otherwise, I have lovely hair and very soft skin (that'll be the Ehlers Danlos, not moisturizing and exfoliating!).

Ah, thankyou! I know young kids often say stuff like ‘mummy your boobies are big’, but if using a slang term the child must be older, and then it would be a strange comment! So I’m glad I’m wrong 🤣

I was in for xrays and the radiologist told me how beautiful my neck was - I suppose the structure or something? - and if ever there was an xray competiton she want to use my neck (and the rest of me too, hopefully, waah! 😁)

Brilliant thread 😀

I used to be told I didn’t look like a lawyer.

I am a lawyer and don’t hear this so often these days 🤔

Not sure if it’s a compliment but the nurse giving me a smear said I was “very petite down there”.

Brilliant 😂

when I worked at an airport one of the plane techs told me i had great sturdy landing gear 🦵 🤣

That I gave model ear canals, said during a hearing test.

My DS2 often says he loves my soft thighs because you can squeeze them like dough. What a sweetheart😄

Well done, I've got rubbish veins and they always get the most senior guy to get blood out of me.

A gynaecologist told me I have a beautiful cervix. Probably less so once he'd lasered pre-cancerous cells off it, but, priorities.

Had been with my boyfriend for about two years, when he told me, When i get married I want to marry someone like you….

We stayed together another couple of years and then split. He met and married someone within 6 months, and as far as i could see was nothing like me

Remembered another one. I was having one of those body wrap things on a spa hen day. Beautician said "wow, you have hardly any cellulite even though your legs aren't skinny". Back-handed much 😆

Went with my mum to get my first bra. The fitter told her that I filled the cups nicely.

I was told I had a very good vocabulary for an English person. Might have been a compliment in some circumstances but I am English and the person complimenting me was Dutch, speaking English as his second language.

I had similar at a friend’s party. We normally saw each other at dinner parties at each other’s houses. I thought I made a good effort for these but wore a dress for his party and he was practically speechless until he came out with that classic!

A skiing instructor told me that I skied like an 80s French man. Think it was a compliment?

Ooh and a cleaning lady in my office in China told me I was looking ugly when I was heavily pregnant. Apparently a compliment as it means I was likely to have a boy (girls make you look pretty it seems). Rubbish on many levels obvs, including its predictive power as I ended up having a girl.

Maybe all the rubbish vein people already know this but before your blood draw 1) stay/get warm, 2) drink a lot of water and 3) do a little exercise. In addition to getting older (for which I can’t take credit) these have made it much easier for me and I wish I’d known years ago.

I present them with the big, fat, juicy vein on the thumb side of my wrist and tell them to use that and save us both a lot of time, trouble and pain.

I was told I had the cutest accent when overheard by an American woman telling my (then) toddler "please don't lick my arm, mummy does not wish to be licked"! 😂

Had major dental work done and my (then young) children bought me flowers - “we got yellow and white mummy, like teeth” 😂

"You're like a houseplant. Just there, comforting, and not annoying"

Hope you can run fast too!

Oh yes! I got “great high palate - you could sing opera” from an orthodontist obviously based on physical evidence, had implements in my mouth so he couldn’t witness my singing 😂