What is the best compliment you've ever gotten?
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Anonymous
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This older chap once stopped at our table at Capital Grille while I was dining with my wife and two boys, he said we were “such a beautiful family” and tousled my youngest’s blonde mop. He was honestly beaming. We later found out he actually paid for our meal!
Never forgot. I could barely summon even 13 or 14 words to express my pride. |
Anonymous
Same but also multiple men have said it. |
Anonymous
| We were playing the guessing game where you try to figure out a person/character based on one initial and the one who came up with it doles out clues-my 9 year old had chosen me and one of the clues he gave was “she’s nice and really funny.” |
Anonymous
| My coworker said she and a few others were talking and all agreed they admired my parenting skills and would like to raise their kids as I have. |
Anonymous
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My freshman year in college, I took a lit class as a gen ed and we had to read and give a presentation on a book that has been banned. I was assigned Maus. I put it off til the end because Lit isn't really my interest. So I stayed up late the 3 nights before it was due reading and essentially putting together a presentation full of BS. I was actually really nervous as I thought the professor was going to see right through my half assed attempt. After my presentation he was dead silent and then asked me to stay after class. When everyone else left, he said that was the most insightful and ingenious take on the book he's ever seen in 20+ years. He asked me if I could come back and do my presentation to his doctoral students and if he could use some of my thoughts in his teachings moving forward.
Honestly, I turned down presenting for the higher students because I felt like such a fraud, but the flip side was I also felt really seen and understood in a way I hadn't before. I realized that I don't have to necessarily study so much fact by fact if I can just understand main concepts and apply them in practical, new, or interesting ways. That really powered me through the rest of college and lead me to sales. I still think of that professor often when I close a big deal. |
Anonymous
| Was on vacation playing with my daughter in a hotel pool. We had been in the pool at least an hour having a wonderful time oblivious to anyone around us. A lady came up to me and said I was an awesome mom. Warmed my heart. |
Anonymous
+1. And it's odd that the mom took is as a compliment too. |
Anonymous
Letters from prison make themselves obvious with big stamps that say MAILED FROM XX STATE PRISON. |
Anonymous
Oh for Pete's sake. You seriously can't picture this happening? At a gym? I'm picturing a gay man saying this to pp during a workout. Men's athletic pants and shorts can leave little to the imagination. |
Anonymous
| Not the best but the most memorable was my old bf's friend said I had "more curves than a burlap sack full of bobcats!" |
Anonymous
Aww, that's a great one! |
Anonymous
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Most recently, DH told a story in a small group — half people I know, half I don’t — and then mentioned a project I’m embarking on, which is tangentially related. I gave my elevator pitch to explain and was feeling self-conscious.
Afterward, my friend exclaimed in front of everyone, “you always have the best ideas!” |
Anonymous
| Flying with infant DC and older man stopped upon disembarking and yelled “that baby was so good on the flight! What a great mom!” His wife was with him and well, she wasn’t as friendly. Lol. |
Anonymous
That is memorable. |
Anonymous
| In my next life, I want to come back as your dog. |