What is the best compliment anyone ever gave you?

I used to write up documentation on using our network and computers in general which I posted on an internal website. The head of communications came up to me one day and told me he was teaching a college level writing course and he liked how clear and concise my instructions were so much he was using them as examples on how to write clearly. That felt pretty cool.
 

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WheatenLover said:
Honestly, I doubt if pain meds caused that. I've had that experience before, telling someone they were an angel. Not a literal, sitting on clouds angel, just an angel for how they, themselves, treated me.

PS Don't anyone dare start up with how angels don't sit on clouds! Cuz I will jump into the fray, and we will have a rollicking good time!
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It was nice. Made me feel good and happy I could make someone feel they were cared about.
 
I've been told all of my life that I have beautiful penmanship. I must have inherited it from my parents. They both had beautiful handwriting which is astonishing because my dad had an 8th grade education and my mom made it to 10th. As a side note, considering my dad's lack of education, he was brilliant with numbers. He did peoples taxes for years and very good at it. We never bothered him at tax time.
 
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When my mother died when I was a teen and ...I took over all the household chores....I was used to doing everything because I was the one who did most of the chores anyway from the age of around 7 or 8 , but I'd never done the laundry before.. not the washing of it anyway....

Some friends of my fathers' came to visit just as I was hanging out the washing on the line.... and apparently they told my father...'''ooh she does a lovely white wash''....

I'd never heard that expression before that.. but apparently it was a huge compliment
 
The greatest compliment I received was in 2020 when Covid was in full effect and my job was eliminated. I will never forget it. Even though I was leaving, I insisted on calling each of my salespeople personally along with my boss, whether they were staying or leaving. We called one of my youngest salespeople who was staying. He basically said "Thank you for giving me this opportunity, sharing your experience and helping make me successful in my career." It was one of the most satisfying compliments I have ever received.
 
MACKTEXAS said:
I can relate somewhat to those kind of relationships. From my past employment, there are 3 women I stay in touch with. It's very rare to see them in person, but we still talk once in awhile by phone. It would never be anything but platonic.
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MACKTEXAS: I totally misread your remark about the 3 women: I read it as: "It's very rare to see them in prison but we still talk once in a while". Must get the eyes tested this week.
 
againstthegrain said:
The future mother in laws first words out of her mouth besides hello, was "thank you for raising an assume human being."
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A potential mother-in-law of mine (thank goodness she didn't become that) said when she first met me and I quote, "At least she isn't Black!" She didn't say "hi it was nice to meet you" or the usual salutations. I never did care for her after that. I thought how rude!
 
"Loving you is the best thing that's ever happened to me."

I can still hear it.

"I've never seen anyone work as hard at anything as you did at being a mother." My older son said that in his adulthood, and he said it with such love. It still makes me tear up. He said that and I felt like, I don't know, like he really "saw" me.

The same son sent a beautiful self-love spell kit for Mother's Day last May and I'm still using it every morning after exercises. Some gifts, you know? ❤️
 
^^ was one of the regular patients at the place I worked at the time - he probably liked me and related to me. I was about 50 yrs old at the time. Came in t o have his regular medication which the doctor refused to give him because he was too drunk
 

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