the "strange" compliment you remember best

The one I remember was from an elderly great aunt who told me that I looked just my mum at the same age 'though not as pretty obviously!!'

One of my brothers picked me up on a comment I'd made and accused me of telling a fib. My aunt ticked him off and said, 'Your sister is as honest as the day's long.'

To which he replied, 'It'll be dark in half an hour.'

An acquaintance mentioned that she'd just seen my daughter. 'You're so alike' she gushed, 'Very plain but such.a lovely smile!'

When asking my daughter her opinion of my new outfit she replied " it's alright for you mother but I wouldn't wear it !! "

I was frequently told at work ' you think like a man', I'm not sure that's a compliment.

My Grandmother once looked at me all dressed up and said, 'Well at least you've got one good leg.' I never knew which one!

At work a rather snooty colleague said to me - “ they’re nice earrings. I can’t wear cheap jewellery myself”

Christinefrance My daughter said the exact same thing to me once....she was a teenager at the time though.

Have just remembered another compliment: my sister-in-law, on being shown my (rather smart, I think) engagement ring, said "Very nice - for every day."

walking through the school hall at the end of the day and being asked by the cleaner if I was pregnant!!
I WAS 56!!

The other day, I bought a gas lighter thing for the candles. On the packaging it clearly stated, "No ID, no sale". Well, I wasn't asked for ID, so must be age appropriate.

Someone I hadn't seen for years once said to me " You know , when you havn't seen someone for years , you think 'Good God', they look like shit ? Well , you don't "

Not backhanded at all compared to some of these, I’ll always treasure:
“You’re a very nice person in a very nice package”

I was helping a friend who had laid on a buffet for her mother's wake. My hands were in the washing up bowl when this cousin of said friend remarked, 'I'd help too but I'm all dressed up...'

As teenagers, my best friends brother said "I'm so drunk Hipsy,I could almost fancy you"

An elderly lady looked admiringly at my very cute twin girls, about 9 months old at the time, saying “ your babies are so pretty,” ...pause while she studied my face closely....”they’re not a bit like you are they!”
Just what a harassed and sleep deprived mum needed to hear!

I once said to my mother, all dressed up for some smart day event.
'You look awful, just like something out of Vogue'

I was kicking a ball around with my grandson when another boy of similar age, came and asked if he could join in. I think he thought at that point, I would butt out. No chance! After, he said to me “I’ve never seen an old lady play football before - you’re good!” GS gave me a high five!

When I was about 30, I was walking down a corridor at work, when one of my male colleagues that I didn't know that well, stopped me and said, quite seriously, "You look really lovely today..." I blushed and started to thank him but before I could say very much he added, "because you don't always, you know. Oh no. Sometimes you look very pasty..." I didn't know whether to laugh or cry! PASTY!!!!

I worked with a woman who was always coming out with-do you remember that sports presenter "Coleman balls?" Well her sayings were known as "(name) balls. . .
One day, while a few of us were making (a very quick drink-private practice, no time wasting!) she commented on my hair cut-she hadn't wanted "straggly bits" like I'd had! Colleagues-and me-just snorted. She never got it! Another time I admired a skirt she had-she had lovely taste-it's M&S Newquay, you couldn't afford it! See her in playground now collecting GC, she hasn't changed a bit. . .

Last year my brother-in-law who hadn't seen me since I had a shorter haircut (and my hair was definitely more white than blonde), commented that I looked more and more like my mother every year. When I replied that I couldn't really see it, he looked surprised and said: 'But she wasn't a bad looking woman'!

A couple of weeks ago I was behind a stall at our church bazaar. An elderly lady came up to me and said "Hello dear. You're a lot slimmer than you used to be aren't you?" I am the same weight I have always been for years. ?

My mother has a way of telling me I look nice that implies that she is very surprised at my appearance.

On a romantic dinner in Paris, from DH: "This candlelight.....doesn't half make your spots stand out".

"You've got a fine pair of footballer's legs" and "You'll pass in a crowd", both from my parents.