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Whats the NICEST thing anyone has ever said to you

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Beccarollover · 05/02/2004 11:37

I got a card from my Dad once that said inside

You give single mothers a good name

Was very touched and still often think of it

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StressyHead · 05/02/2004 11:39

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handlemecarefully · 05/02/2004 11:41

Aww your Dad sounds great, and I am sure he is spot on.

The nicest thing anyone ever said to me was "will you marry me"

Thomcat · 05/02/2004 12:22

Ahh Becca, that is SO lovely.

I love that quote from the Jack Nicholson film where he has OCD - 'As Good As it Gets' and Helen Hunt asks him for a compliment and he replies that since he met her he's stopped taking his pills. When questioned on this strange compliment he says 'You make me want to be a better man', or words very similar. I thought that was a great line.

The nicest thing ever said to me - not really sure but in general they have been compliments either about me as a mother or about how wonderful Lottie is that I have found the nicest things.

Actually - two of the nicest things ever said to me were by strangers in Sainsbury's!!!

One woman came up to me and said 'I just had to tell you this - I was having a really bad day but your little girl has just given me the most wonderful smile and made me feel so much better - thank you' and then she just walked off, leaving me standing there with my mouth open and tears in my eyes.

Another lady said she had been watching me walk up and down the ailes with lottie and that the love i had for her was so strong and so obvious it was a wonderful thing to see and how lucky we were to have each other'. I was so touched that a stranger had come up to me and said something like that.

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Beccarollover · 05/02/2004 12:24

Thomcat - goosepimples and tears - lovely story

This thread could be a mistake as Ill just cry at every entry!

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SpringChicken · 05/02/2004 12:27

That is lovely TC I hope people make comments like that to me in the future.

Thomcat · 05/02/2004 12:30

I know - it's made me all teary thinking about it as well! Oh Becca - what have you done! They are nice tears though. The kindness of strangers aye

handlemecarefully · 05/02/2004 12:36

Oooh this thread is shapeing up nicely - I just love the opportunity to get all teary. Love your examples Thomcat

handlemecarefully · 05/02/2004 12:38

Thomcat,

would it be really cynical and manipulative of me to make a big show of kissing dd when i next wander around Waitrose (i normally feel like strangling her in these circumstances) in the hope of eliciting a similar comment from another shopper ?

Thomcat · 05/02/2004 12:45

Handlemecarefully - v funny - yes give it a go, both dress up in your Sunday best, paint rosy cheeks on her and perhaps a bonnet and a silver cross pram and meander around cooing at her, and choosing her fresh, orgainc ingrediants, telling her how much you love her and how you can't wait to see the vicar for tea again!!!!
You'll make someones day!!

PS - What AM I talking about!
Think I better go to luch!!!

Copper · 05/02/2004 12:50

Someone said to me years ago that I looked like a Bellini Madonna - very impressed. Now they would say I look like a Beryl Cook

StressyHead · 05/02/2004 12:52

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Thomcat · 05/02/2004 12:56

Ahh Stressyhead - that's lovely and just what you needed today I'm sure

Northerner · 05/02/2004 12:57

Again, another supermarket one. I was pushing ds in the trolley and we were singing 'wheels on the bus' ds stopped to shout 'hiya' to a little old lady. We kept bumping into this woman around the store and he always said hiya and smiled at her. She eventually came up to me and said 'What a beautiful little boy you have, I wish he was mine. I was not blessed with children, you are very lucky'

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Beccarollover · 05/02/2004 13:08

Northerner - oh goodness - just brought huge lump to my throat

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Coddy · 05/02/2004 13:11

I THINK ITS JUST THE LITTLE TOUCHES THT YOU LOVE - WHEN i "POT" DS1 INTHE NIGHT HE IS HALF ASLEEP AND ALWAYS REACHES OUT FOr A KISSR

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Angeliz · 05/02/2004 13:12

My dp saying that he had never found a woman he wanted to be mother to his children till he met me. ( i took that as a big compliment)

A few years ago, when i was about 17 and living abroad, Jimmy, a D.J freind of mine said (about me)," I have a thirst for knowledge and am very intelligent and he knows the reason i never join in conversations is my fear of being wrong" . It would take AGES to go into why that was so important to me but it was. He GOT me at that time

Angeliz · 05/02/2004 13:14

Thomcat, what lovely people! Lottie must be a star

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Beccarollover · 05/02/2004 13:18

Doesnt it make you realise that how nice you are can really make a difference to people

Im going to start commenting if I see something nice as you never know it might make someones day!

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Coddy · 05/02/2004 13:20

now heres a site!

Angeliz · 05/02/2004 13:20

Me too Becarollover!
I already smile at everyone all the time!
I LOVE smiles from strangers

StressyHead · 05/02/2004 13:21

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Angeliz · 05/02/2004 13:22

Coddy, just saw "bring your pet to a nursing home for a visit" and i was thinking for ages, Why would my dog like to see lots of old people!!Honest

Coddy · 05/02/2004 13:23

LOL its abit american cheesy isnt it!

Its for when I can get out (!) see other thread

Coddy · 05/02/2004 13:26

Ask your local police department give out "kindness citations" instead of parking tickets

yes...right.....

shal llwe set up our own random act of kindbness thread?

I always cuddle babies if they howl so their MUm can load shopping or whatever...

squirmyworm · 05/02/2004 13:26

when I had ds, I wheeled his little fishtank into the phone room and called my mum. She said (after I had burbled on for a bit) 'I can see he is the light of your life'. Still get a lump in my throat when I think of that - it was so right