What is the nicest compliment paid to you

[malaise]

by a young person who is neither family, the child of a family friend or a neighbor?

[Walleye]

1. Can't remember exactly who it was, but when I was working for the newspaper

A cute young guy recognized my name and said he had been following my photography for years. I didn’t think anybody even looked long enough to read the photo credit

[kimbutgar]

2. You're my favorite substitute teacher!

[Upthevibe]

15. kimbutgar.......

I get that one too!

[hlthe2b]

3. Recently? "I knew when I first saw you and you started to speak that you weren't a Trump supporter"

LOL

Early on? Not sure.

[SheltieLover]

5. Nice!

[malaise]

6. A Great Compliment

😂

[The Blue Flower]

4. I enjoyed your book so much...

...I slowed down reading it at the end to make it last.

The title is "Profit & Loss." Self-published on amazon. A story about homelessness.

[malaise]

10. Wow!

Nice

[lapucelle]

7. A former student dedicated a book to me.

[Upthevibe]

16. lapucelle.....

Wow!

[lapucelle]

21. It was unexpected and absolutely wonderful.

[True Dough]

8. "At least

you weren't twins!"

I've heard that from young and old!

[legallyblondeNYC]

9. I love this forum! Is there anything more powerful than a compliment.

The more we compliment each other, the more we can change the world.

[NJCher]

11. Five little girls

Were sort of hanging around outside the school garden gate, and when I left to go to my car, they shyly came up to me and their "spokesperson" said, "We wanted to tell you you're pretty."

[Upthevibe]

17. NJCher

Awwww.....

[dickthegrouch]

12. "He was very thorough"

Said to my boss about a consultation job I had performed for that client.

My boss said it was "The worst thing said about me all year"

[dlilafae]

13. My husband of nearly 45 years

told my M-i-L that I deserve my new car. To which, she had not ont thing to add. 😊

[2MuchNoise]

14. Young guy I worked with said "You always look like you're up to something."

I don't think it was meant as a compliment, but I took it as one.

[Grim Chieftain]

18. This is silly, but it still makes me smile

Many years ago, when I was starting out as an elementary school teacher, we had to do the dreaded lunchroom duty. There was a strict no talking policy to expedite the time children spent having lunch. One little boy, with big eyes, held up his hand and said "Miss H-------, are you a princess?" I smiled and said "Yes, yes I am". I'll never forget the looks on the children's faces.

[malaise]

19. So sweet

😀

[LogDog75]

20. I was complimented, in a backhanded sort of way

I had been stationed in South Korea for about three months and being the SNCO of the section, I streamlined how we supported everyone. I had to brief a new independent duty medical technician (IDMT) from across base on how we would support him and the procedures/paperwork to request medical supplies. He was accompanied by IDMT he was replacing and after the briefing, the old IDMT said he wished I had arrived about six months ago because the only reason he didn't request an extension to his assignment was because of how hard it was for him to get support from us.

[Tikki]

22. A lady I worked with for years...

“If I were to come back as a dog.. I would want to be your family dog.”
WOW..that was a compliment for sure.

Tikki

[oberle]

32. I had a professor once say

he'd like to come back as one of my cats. I loved that -- I had 9 at the time.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

23. From a married guy when I was a young secretary...

bopping around in mini-skirts..."Young lady, you're not beautiful...........but you're lovely. And that will last much much longer."

I was kind of miffed until I thought about it.... and fell in love with the sound of that.

[malaise]

24. Lovely compliment

😀

[Marthe48]

25. A clerk at the grocery store

Said she loved when I came through. I was always smiling.

[malaise]

28. Wonderful

😀

[PJMcK]

26. When my son was young, I was a Scout Leader

Several of the Scouts said similar things to me along the lines of, “I wish my parents would listen to me like you do.”

They were compliments that broke my heart.

[PJMcK]

27. How about you, malaise?

I suspect you’ve impacted many lives.

Can you share what inspired your OP?

Thanks, in advance.

[malaise]

29. A former student called me

Well over a decade ago, I told him I thought he’d be a good person to take over one of my courses.
I told him to come and help himself to any of the text books and journals and come up with his own ideas for the way forward.

He called to tell me that he was just promoted at a university in Canada and wanted to thank me. Then he paid me the compliment - he said you told me to use my imagination and come up with my own course outline and plans. You said this will now be your course not mine.
I laughed and said if we don’t trust the young ones to be able to do what we were allowed to do, then we were really bad lecturers/teachers.

[PJMcK]

34. That's a wonderful story!

Thanks for telling it.

I had a strong feeling you are an educator.

[JustKay]

30. In 2021 and 2022 I had purple hair -

Really, dark purple hair, and a little girl (maybe five or six) walked past me and said, "I love your princess hair!" Made my day and still makes me smile all these years later. I've since gone back to blond, so I don't have princess hair anymore.

[malaise]

31. Too cute

😀

[sprinkleeninow]

33. "You're pretty!"

[Followed by me thinkin': pretty 'wut'?😆]

[LudwigPastorius]

35. The kid (maybe mid-20s) who was running sound at a club I played at...

said to the band after our set, "That was the greatest thing I've ever heard in my life!". (This was a band that could best be described as Ornette Coleman meets The Allman Brothers.)

We just silently looked at each other after he said that, and the guitarist said to him, "Don't get out much, hunh?".

[malaise]

39. Bwaaaaaaaaaaah!

You win the thread😀

[bif]

38. My Greek M-I-L once told me

That my pilafi was better than hers.

[malaise]

40. That is a serious compliment

😀