Have I taken this comment the wrong way?

[superstarheartbreaker]

I fancy an ex colleague. We had a flirt but he had a gf so nothing happened. He's very attractive so all the girls are like wow! He can pick and choose.
Saw him at a party last night and we were both with our mates. I showed him to my friend and she said " your batting above your average." I know he's gorgeous and I'm probably not in the same league looks wise but even if she thought it she shouldn't have said it. Or is she just in awe of his beauty( she's very happily married so she's not after him. She is normally very kind and complimentary.

I love my friends but I do struggle with these kind of comments and put downs that some of my mates make.

It was a naf superficial comment made by a bitchy superficial person. Ignore go for anyone who takes your fancy - attraction is either mutual or it isn't, ignore people who play the ranking game.

Why does it even bother you he is much better looking than you. He has a girlfriend!
Maybe your friends and work colleagues are telling you to back off before you embarrass yourself.
I thought only teenage girls 'show' their friends a guy they really like.

i met someone! I'm no longer AFTER said guy
Maybe stop chasing after guys in relationship.

Why were you 'showing' him to your friend?

Funny thing is that she's always telling me how beautiful I am. I'm not going to read too much into it. As far as I'm concerned we are all beautiful in our own way and rating people is futile. Beauty in the eye etc.

I'm not after him at all now. I saw him and pointed it out. When I was after him I didn't know he had a gf but backed off when I knew. It's fine to live in hope but I met a lovely guy last night who wants to take me out so I'm more than happy.

So true. A friend of mine liked this guy at work, thought he was soooo fit. I thought he was a poor man's Jude Law, struggling for a seven. Go figure.

Thanks, Robot.

Sorry, but that is not how your op reads at all. This all only happened last night? In your op it sounds like the flirting and the knowing about the girlfriend have been going on for a while

I don't think you've taken it the wrong way.
It was bitchy.

Even if I'd thought it, I probably wouldn't have but IF I did - there's no way I'd say something like that to a friend.
I'd maybe have given a ''Ooh he is gorgeous, shame he was taken'' or ''You have good taste Superstar, he's hot''

As you said she isn't normally like that then I'd let it go this time.

Well to put matters into context where the wild...there was flirting at work before the gf situation was known. I left that place of work so no longer flirting.

Of course it's not just teenage girls who show their friends a guy they really like. But then again most people in our age group are paired up so that kind of thing is left to the single girls like me.

i'd be embarrassed to point out a man i liked to my friends as they'd all get too excited and assume something was going to happen. and nothing every does happen for me.

I read this completely the wrong way. I thought 'batting above your average' was referring to the fact that you were going for a better bloke than you usually do, not that you are 'punching above your weight' which is a reference to you.