" Someone once told me that I seem like the sort of person who always takes my shopping cart back to the go-cart cow pen . "
I don’t know about you, but I’m a sucker for compliments. It’s always a huge mood booster when someone tells you they admire something about you, especially if its unexpected.
If you’re curious about how to meaningfully sing someone’s praises, you’re in the right place. Inone Reddit thread, people shared the most memorable and surprising compliments they’ve ever received, and I’ve compiled the best answers, below.
I have intense second-hand giddiness from how good some of these are:
1.“On the bus coming home with my son after he’d just had a shot, he was fussy and being hypersensitive about everything, so I was distracting him by pointing out little details — hey, look at that bush, that’s a peony!”
" ' Oh , look there , there ’s a cat in the windowpane ! There ’s Lucy ! I bet she ’s walk back from the bakery ; maybe you may see if she got you a sinker ! ' Little material , but it settled him down and got him to pay care to something other than his sore branch . As we were getting ready to get off the bus , an old guy across from us go , ' I just want you to know I ’ve interpret more of this townsfolk in the past 20 minutes listening to you than I ’ve noticed in the past 10 years . You keep showing your babe the world , Momma . ' Made my whole day , lol . "
– Catonachandelier
2.“My female doctor said I am her best patient in terms of relaxing my vagina, lol. She said it in a not-at-all-inappropiate way and I have seen her for years. I was almost on the floor laughing, and replied, ‘Well, I will take the compliments I am handed.'”
– oattoad
3.“A hairstylist once told me that if they could choose any eye color in the world, it would be my eye color (amber). I thought it was very sweet. The next time I went into the hair studio, another stylist said, ‘Oh! You’re the one with the eyes!’ Haha.”
– theserpentqueen
4.“I donated plasma for over 15 years. One time while getting poked, ‘Wow, you have lovely veins! You’d be a great date for a vampire.’ I laughed quite a bit at that.”
– TheFursofherEnemies
5.“A guy in my math class told me I had beautiful knees. We were chatting, verging on flirting, and he told me my knees were beautiful, quite sincerely. Maybe he was messing with me, but I’ve had a special admiration for my knees ever since then. As a 14-year-old in ‘94, it was lovely to feel slightly body-positive for a glimmer of time. ‘Twas the era of Kate Moss, heroin chic, and skinny actresses and models.”
– blueblissberrybell
6.“My brother’s then-girlfriend complimenting the dimple in my chin, calling it one of the seven classic signs of beauty. My wife still makes fun of it 20 years later…”
– snap552
7."‘I can tell you go to therapy because your communication style is wicked healthy.’ I think about it every single day, that was the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me."
– Projectplugttv
8.“Once at a beach a random woman came up to me and said I have beautiful chest hair. I’m not muscular and have a little bump belly, but she genuinely seemed to like my chest hair, lol.”
– sadfacezx
9.“I was on a first date, and my date was walking me to the bus stop at the end of the date, and this drunken homeless man yelled out loud, pointing at me, ‘Look at the ASS on that one!’ There was a crowd of people around. It was daylight with tons of people around, so I didn’t feel scared. I was beyond flattered.”
– WileyWine
10.“I had an assessment done by a psychiatrist when I was a teen, in which she described me as ‘warm and eminently likeable.’ I’m 32 now and that has stuck with me since.”
– yagirlafad
11.“I was traveling home from Mobile, AL one Christmas Eve, and the lady who checks your boarding pass before security said that I had the most beautiful eyes she’d ever seen. It was quite a boost at the time and I still think about it. She probably says that to everyone!”
– borokish
12.“I gave a girl a balloon, and she told her mom I’m ‘pretty ‘cause I have balloons.’ That’s a pretty good reason to be pretty.”
– academic - leg2279
13.“A couple that bought my seat neighbor’s tickets for a game thought I was 24. I was 47, 48 now.”
" ab initio they thought I was younger because they did a double take when they get word I had alcohol . I heard them whispering and say , ' how old do you think I am ? ' Not rude , more playful . They were moderately aghast . That one will stick with you . I ’m of the generation with Peter Pan syndrome . Nice to get it on I ’m aging like it too . And they were in their late 20 , so it was n’t like an old duad who suppose everyone looks untested . "
– Alycion
14.“Someone once told me that I seem like the kind of person who always takes my shopping cart back to the cart corral.”
– ok_babey
15.“I got into an Uber last year and said ‘good morning’ to the driver, to which his response was, ‘WHOA. Are you a newscaster? Journalist?’ And I said no. He said, ‘Well, with that voice, you should be. I was one back in Turkey.'”
– ARoseByAnyOtherNme
16.“One of my former students mentioned me in his acknowledgments of his master’s thesis and thanked me for pointing him in the direction of interesting work where he’s found success. He just didn’t know that area of work was even possible. Best compliment ever to hear that you made a positive difference for a former student.”
– MontanaPurpleMtns
17.“My first boyfriend once said out of nowhere, while I was doing schoolwork, ‘You have the most perfect nose.’ I never really thought much about that part, but that compliment came so unexpectedly that it really stuck for some reason.”
– ImJacksLastBrainCell
18.“That I ‘would make the perfect wife.’ It was in an unsolicited way by a coworker with no romantic intentions. I was a young married mom at the time working at night in a shitty bar to keep my child from daycare and my husband from a second job. He was the bartender. It wasn’t exactly what he said. It was the kindness in which he said it. I felt seen for what I was truly trying to do.”
– JustPlainJaneToday
19.“One of my lab partners in high school said I had ‘handwritten letter’ handwriting. It was a very nice way of saying I had illegible but pretty script, and I still think about it to this day. 😂”
– iiappie
20.“I have been complimented more than once on the softness of my skin. Not in a creepy, ‘it puts the lotion on its skin’ way, more like a friend grabbed my arm to show me something and then exclaimed, ‘Your skin is so soft!’ and stroked my arm. My then-boyfriend, now-husband, also used to stroke my arms and tummy and marvel at the softness. I have moisturized every day since I was a teenager. 🤷🏼♀️”
– bulleybeef
take note : Responses have been edited for distance / clarity .
