What's the best compliment you've received?

[bif]

I was at Costco a few weeks ago and I got carded. I thought the cashier was joking. She said, "Do I look like I'm joking?" (I'm 55, and believe me, I look every year of it). I should have asked her if they changed the legal age to 60!

[elleng]

1. Grocery downtown Chicago, 30+ years ago,

I asked 'where's the sugar?' Gentleman says, 'Everyone knows, you ARE sugar!' Still makes me smile. Thanks

[av8rdave]

2. A tie

1. My first real flight lessons. The instructor pilot routinely screamed at me from startup to shutdown. One day, we're walking back to the squadron building from the flight line when he abruptly asks me how I think I'm doing in the program. I told him I had no idea.

"really?" he replied. "you fly a great airplane."

That's the first time I had any inkling I had chosen the right business.

[BurtWorm]

3. I cannot say it in public.

:patriot:

[skygazer]

4. Helping a friend with the haying

He's a 4th generation New England farmer, doesn't waste words, not given to effusive praise. He was driving the baler, another person was driving the hay truck, the hired man was tossing the bales up and I was stacking.

The truck was a big old farm truck and I stacked that thing up to the sky, as tight as I could get it. My friend walked over as I was putting the last few bales on top, way up above the field. It was so neatly loaded we didn't need a rope to hold it. He gazed up at me for a moment, then said quietly, "You've stacked hay before."

Without a doubt, the best compliment I have EVER gotten. :)

[Iggo]

5. Heheh...heheheh...heheh...

[Glassunion]

6. That I look nothing like Mel Gibson.

[jberryhill]

7. "You're taking too long"

Sorry, no context.

[kayakjohnny]

8. Something about trying to park a Cadillac in a Volkswagen parking space.

But that's all I'd rather say about it now.

[Curmudgeoness]

9. From someone at another company that rented space in the office

that I rented space, "if I ever have problems with the phone company, I want you to be the one to call them". This after quite a few calls and heated discussions, but got a $2000 credit. That was sweet, especially since I was embarrassed that I sounded like such a bitch and everyone there could hear my conversations.

[Dr Morbius]

10. My mother asked me once how I came to be so wise.

Being no fool, I told her it was most likely genetic.

[snailly]

11. My 4 year old daughter told me I was beautiful the other day

I can't think of anything better than that.

[Odin2005]

12. "You think too much!"

:rofl:

[MiddleFingerMom]

13. My 5-year-old precocious niece and I are lying on the floor coloring...

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...and she stares at me for the longest time -- I can tell
she's trying to figure something out, so I let her be.
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She FINALLY says, "Uncle MiddleFingerMom, you're..."
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...DIFFERENT, aren't you?"
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I still think it's one of the nicest things anyone's ever said to me.
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BTW, SpelChek doesn't like my name -- it thinks I should be called "Delphinium'(!!!!!???). :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Heidi]

14. Our 15-year-old goddaughter yesterday, on our way home from Zürich.

"This is one of the most fun days in my life."

Her 16th birthday is coming up, so I took the day off and invited her for a "girls' day out" in Zurich. We traveled to/from by train to buy her birthday gifts in the ballet shop in Zurich, then spent the rest of the day at the Kunsthaus Zurich, and walking, shopping and people watching on Bahnhofstrasse. :)

[MiddleFingerMom]

15. VERY nicely done...

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...you certainly seem to have the Godmom thing down to an art.
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I have always considered Uncle MiddleFingerMom to be the BESTEST JOB EVAH!!!!!
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[Heidi]

16. I have to admit,

it was fun for me, too. And I agree with you: being an aunt/uncle is the best job EVAH!!! :hug: