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I was on a plane to California on my way to an academic job interview and started chatting with the person next to me about various topics. She asked me what I did and I said I was a college professor. She said, "You're remarkably down to earth for an a Ph.D."
I took that as a great compliment (as she meant it). I grew up about as working-class as you can get (mostly in the enlisted ranks of the Air Force), and even though sometimes it feels now as though I live between two very different worlds, I will always be thankful for my roots.
A few years ago I was at a local casino. I was wearing knee length bike shorts, a t-shirt, and flip flops. Nothing at all special. A total stranger, male, walked up to me and said I had the best legs in the place. I was so floored I managed to mumble "thank you!".
I have never been attractive. Never been one to bask in the glow of my own beauty. Honestly, I am pretty ugly. Compliments are few and far between for women like me. I will never forget that day. I wish there was a way for me to tell that man what that honest compliment meant to me!
I will bet that you are a cutie. Don't be so hard on yourself!!! Anyway, some of those so called dames, are just that............nothing to them. I knew a lady, that was pretty enough to be a movie star and she was nastier and meaner than a box of rattlesnakes.
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Hmm...it's between my sister saying I am the strongest person she has ever known and a total stranger saying "I love a woman with an ass like a ripe watermelon." I pick number one.
A friend wrote in my high school yearbook that one thing that he always liked about me was my awareness. Not sure if that was his exact words, but almost 40 yrs later I still consider that a great complement, more so than someone telling me I'm beautiful.
"How come your brother doesn't have a girlfriend? He's so good-looking." *looks out the window*
This was in a class, in front of students. And that was a college teacher who said it (to my sister). She said this when she saw me walking outside the class's window.
It was very flattering. I never thought to be that much in the looks department. And to be complimented in front of the students was majestic. I mean, I've never been complimented face-to-face, and yet this happens? Lol
I have three sons. When they were growing up people usually said pretty horrible things to me in front of them. The dreaded "all boys, you poor thing", "did you wish for a girl?", "are you going to try for a girl?", "oh dear, they will eat you our of your home"--all kinds of awful, negative things.
Then one day at a party a little, old European woman noticed my three sons and came up to me and said in her thick accent: "I see your husband has only one recipe". I found it sweet and endearing. It was the first sweet comment I had ever heard. She will never know the sweet little sentence she said to me meant the world to me. It was as if she was an Angel passing through.
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