Back handed compliments

MissAdventure oh yes I've looked because I've always wondered. Granny didn't believe in compliments or praise in case it went to anyone's head. No chance!

When I first took my boyfriend home to meet my parents (he later became my DH) my mother said that she was surprised we were together because he was such a good looking boy!

When I whinged about my weight, my mother usually answered:'But you're very neat'.

How funny! have you looked at your legs on occasion since then, trying to work out which one is better?

My dear Grandmother once looked me up and down and said 'At least you've got one good leg.' To make it worse she wouldn't tell me which one it was!

Some years ago after I'd been on a successful diet I was trying on a new swimsuit.
My DD looked at me adoringly and said 'You look lovely, mummy, just like Ma Larkin' (from Darling Buds of May)

My mum told me, amongst lots of other things, 'you do look nice when you make an effort!'

A friend, looking at her husband of many years walking up the drive in his motorbike leathers said,
" If I didn't know it was him I would fancy that"

I loved the 'sofa thighs' compliment!

annifrance im sur the little one meant a lovely soft velour sofa and not a dried out & cracked old leather sofa

Some years ago I was walking to the shops with my two grandsons. The younger one was racing ahead so I said "Slow down darling, Grandma's getting old." The little darling replied "You're not old Grandma, you only look it." I should add I was only in my 60s!

My SiL, when I showed her some earrings I'd bought on holiday, said "I can't wear anything like that, they make me feel tarty". Ever afterwards, DH & I referred to them as my tarty earrings.

New shoes I asked "oh yes, but they're only for walking in"

I was talking to a class of day-release students about shopping on a budget and happened to mention Oxfam. After a short pause, one of them looked at the dress I was wearing and said, 'Have you been to Oxfam recently miss?'
As it happened it was a gloomy looking dress my mother had palmed off on me because it didn't suit her. Guess where I took that dress!

My mother in law at my daughters wedding said to me " I always knew you could look nice"!

Oops that should read neck not nick.

A friend said to me "If I ever had my ears pierced, which I never would, I'd wear ear rings like yours."

She also said "Your garden would be nice if it wasn't for those weeds under that spindly tree."

Another friend said that I had lost weight on my diet and the jowly bits on my nick were less noticeable.

My DD1, travelling with a singles group, had the youngest member - 18 year old - compliment her on how good she looks for someone twice her age. Followed with "gee, I guess I'll be 36 one day". Not if you keep talking like that, thought DD1 ominously.

I had many years of total strangers saying "Your mum's beautiful, it's shame you look so like your dad"!
My aunt once said "I love the style of your hair, but hate the colour you've got it"....the colour was natural!

What a great topic I have been chuckling to myself .
When my oh was in his early 20s sold a teenager a motorbike the lad asked him did you do a lot of riding when you were young ?

F77ms,
We're all funny ladies - every one of these has given me a laugh!

A friend said to me recently "I had a coat like that, but I've given it to the charity shop"

With a group of friends, all in our 60s, I help run a popular village toddler group. "We love coming here" said one mother. "In my country, old people don't do anything!" (She comes from Rumania.....)We took it as a compliment!

My dad honestly thought he was handing out a compliment when he told my sister and me that the women in the family had all the brains, and the men all the looks