When my littlest one was barely 3 mos, we were at quaint little shoppes by Houghton Lake here in MI. This one lady was all over her. Ohhhing and Ahhhing and said, "Oh, look at her (gesturing to her friend), she looks so unique." What he heck does that even mean lol. We were the only non white humans there that day lol.
When we were on a road trip stop this summer from TX to MI, while at a gas station, this lady said, " You're girls are beautiful. Are they in pageants?" What??? I could not wrap my head around that one either but I had a laugh.
Lots of funny stuff. Having a great time reading through.
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Was at the fair with my husband I only had 1 kid then and we brought our nephew (They're 4 mos apart). While my daughter is obviously Filipino , my mixed nephew looked nothing but white. A lady asked whether they were twins. I did not even blink and said, "No we adopted him from Russia and in the process found out we were pregnant". The look on the lady's face was priceless.
My mom is guilty of this one (yes time and time again) When somebody losses their child she always says, " It's horrible and he was the first born too." Like it was supposed to be less devastating if it was the second?
I am 4 yrs younger than my oldest brother. We were in the mall together as teen agers and i walked up waiting on him when he was getting a haircut and the lady asked if i was his mom. (I was around 13 years old)
As a left-handed person, I find it really weird when people comment on it like I'm some kind of circus freak or other novelty. It happens all the time..."oooh, a lefty!" I don't even think about it anymore.
Elderly ladies always comment on my eyelashes. I really hated it as a child. My son inherited the eyelashes. A super old lady told my son his eyes look like tarantulas, in the dollar store. I get she was saying they were long, but it was the weirdest way ever to say that!
ShortMom - I've been told that too, SO many times. Seriously, ankles?? Oh, and my wrists. People comment on my wrists, it's SO weird.
I had a random 4 year old little boy tell me that he thought I was 'sexy' while standing in line at the grocery store once. Talk about being at a loss for words... I stammered for a solid 30 seconds before recovering and saying 'I'm sorry, where's your mother?'
A couple of times I've been assumed to be a transsexual.
<laughing> ONLY when I'm in a dress & heels or am very 'femme'/feminine clothes. I'm 6'1 in my bare feet (so heels bump me to 6'4-6'6). I've been asked discretely who my surgeon is, had someone shout across a room (OMG... I hope her surgeon is local! I NEED to go talk to her, excuse me. Excuse me!! Miss?), and have been asked discretely and openly what hormones and what ratio of hormones I use.
Definitely a compliment each time it's happened. But what goes through me head each time is;
"Yes! I'm a believable woman!"
I told a busstop friend/mom that I was going to get my hair done that day. She exclaimed "You're not getting it colored are you?" I said "No, why?" She explained that she really liked my grey highlights. Ummm...gee thanks?
ETA: Ohhhh, thought of another one...When I was pg with my daughter I was talking to someone at work. She said she knew I was having a girl. I asked her how she knew and she said that when women are pregnant with girls the baby girl drains all the beauty out of the mother.
This was actually a compliment for my daughter and husband and a dis to me. I recently saw someone I hadn't seen for awhile. She kept commenting how beautiful my daughter looked in a surprised way. It was borderline wierd the number of times she said it. Then she finally said, "She looks like (hubby). Doesn't she? after saying she was so beautiful Like she'd figured out the mystery of how such a beautiful child could come out of such a gawdawfulugly person. I let an awkward pause hang in the air and finally said, "Yes she does."
You're so pretty in the face.
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I've been told by many that I look like Barbabra Streisand. Apparently I have quite a shnoz. I'm not even Jewsish. They're clearly Mashugana! lol
I had a Greek man walk up to me once and say...you are a beautiful German Girl, such strong, angular features likes the Germans. Well...yes i am German, blond haired and blue eyed. But everyone in Texas is blond haired and blue eyed. I had no idea Germans had specific features and not happy to hear they are strong and angular! That's not what a girl wants to hear.... My your face is angular.
Ha ha! Can't wait to read all the responses, funny stuff!
This is more along the lines of a pick-up line, but I had a guy (when I ran cross county in high school) come up to me when I was stretching and say. . . "so, how long ARE your legs?" --- um.. really? As long as they are until they turn into my butt, I guess.
Someone also told me a resembled "a beautiful gazelle" - thought that was odd.
I took my son to a carnival and there was a clown making balloon animals. I'm only 5 ft tall and I was wearing a sundress that had a baby doll cut, so I suppose I probably looked a little younger. My son at 6 is already beginning to rival me in height. The clown looks me dead in the face and asked me what kind of balloon my little brother wanted. Have to love that clown!!!!
I had some one tell me "good thing you give your son a mohawk cause he would look really feminine otherwise" really? And when he was a baby and had lovely curls people would say "why do you dress you girl like a boy?" ummmm cause he is a boy!
On the baby theme my cousin and I had babies on the same day. My second a girl, and her first a boy. So we were out with the babies, of course people can't resist babies. Here is the thing her son was born with what can only be described as an adult nose. I say that knowing now that as an adult it got bigger but I digress. So they went for the baby in pink first, usually comments, oh how cute blah blah blah, then my cousin's kid, oh he is such a (awkward pause) boy.
The strangest compliment had to be from my husband on our first date. We had met the day before at our favorite microbrewery. So first date, you have incredible bladder control....why thanks. :) Married him, yes I did. Apparently he was impressed that in the four hours we talked and drank beer I never had to go to the bathroom where you can set a clock to him, every hour. :p
I was told that my son was pretty enough to be a girl...huh?
I had an old man tell me that I looked just like his ex wife. I was in my 30's and look young for my age he was in his 60's.... it threw me off and after seeing the look on my face he added that it was a compliment and I reminded him of her way back when she was young and beautiful...LOL Whew! Nice save!! LOL My husband laughed for about 30 minutes about it...LOL
Just the other day my SIL's mother told me I didn't look as fat this pregnancy as I did with my last. I didn't take it as an offense that is just her being nice. lol
I have had people tell me they wish they had my ankles! I don't get it!
When I was out with my newborn a sales clerk asked if we had adopted because I was so skinny.
"You look like the mom from the movie "Home Alone!"
Huh?? No, I don't. And yet I've had at least 3 people tell me this. Very odd.
My 23 year old told me I have beautiful underarms. I never thought my hard work would effect my underarms too.
I was about 17, I was with my parents in Tijuana, Mexico when some gentlemen started to point at me and say something in Spanish and as we walked by (my dad clearly had his eye on them and me) one of them grabbed my arm and said, "you look like Kelly Bundy". Was that a compliment or an insult??
Shortly after I had my son I was at my grandfather in laws and as we were leaving he said "well K. you are looking good, good job not getting fat like the rest of them!" Ha! I was like ummm...thanks! My in-laws were like you know that was a compliment right? I knew it was but didnt really know what to say, though I did think it was funny!
I just turned 30 and a few weeks ago, I got told by one of my customers I did not look 30, I looked 28. I still laugh at this one...I guess its a compliment???? I realize its younger, but 28 vs 30 is there really much difference there???
I also have a funny one along the lines of Rachel K. Last year I went into my daughters Kindergarten class to help out. One of her fellow classmates (also a little girl) says right in front of a table full of kids but not all of them thank goodness. "Sarah said you have BIG BOOBS" Immediately all the little eyes went there...and everyone at the table started laughing, including all the little boys. Later that day, I had one of those boys hugging my legs calling me beautiful. (Needless to say I couldn't wait to leave for the day!)
A cashier once told me about my two year old son, "Oh he's so pretty I thought he was a little girl." haha
That i looked like what would happen if Heather Graham and Uma Thurman had a baby....lol, they are both chicks!..........but i really did agree at the time
This came from my soon to be mother in law who travelled to Italy to meet me before her son and I got married (comment delivered to her son while i wasn't listening): " wow, she's beautiful, honey, she looks like a white girl!". WHAT???
This one came from a stranger man on the airplane: i am holding my blue-eyed, blond haired son (I'm brown eyed and dark hair), the man points his finger to me, then to my son, then to me again and asks: "how did this happen?"
From the time my daughter was born to about 1 year, I had strangers look at her and look at me, and say "She sure doesn't look like mommy".... Or the few times they glance and ask if daddy is asian? He isn't, but she literally has slits (asian eye folds)for eyes. Yes, it's hard to have 2 children that don't even look related to me. Thank you for the reminder.
Well it wasn't really a "compliment" I guess... but when my eldest was about 9 months I was browsing a local housewares store... and I was carrying her in a sling. she was just sitting there, awake, quiet and happy...
A lady walked towards us and was looking at us (she was a really pretty baby, so I didn't think much of it) Suddenly, i kid you not, this random lady POKED my daughter in the forehead and then jumped back and gasped when my daughter startled.
This of course made me pull back. I was about to say "what the heck, lady?" when she started laughing and said ... "oh I thought you were carrying a doll!" then she called to her daughter, who was about my age I guess, and said " Hey ____, come look at this baby - she looks just like a porcelain doll..."
Even if you thought someone was holding a doll, would you go poke it in the forehead? Geeze!
-M.
Some old guy came up to me at church once and asked me what nationality I was. "I can't put my finger on it, but you look like that golf guy...Tiger Woods," he said. I think he was trying to compliment me, but I'm not sure. I don't think I look like Tiger. And, I am a woman, afterall.
one time I was changing my dd in a restaurant bathroom and a lady said "oh, she's cute, what's her name?" I said "Nora" and she said "That's a nice name. I live in California and no one would name their baby that there." Kind of a backhanded compliment I guess.
For myself, once in college I had someone tell me I would get more action if I was a lesbian.
Bioth of my kids are half mexican and they both have almond shape eyes and I get the same question! Oh! Look at those beautiful asian babies! I laugh to myself! When my daughter was little she looked like a Eskimo baby and had a lot of hair but it was short. Everyone complimented how cute my little boy was. Hmmmm she was wearing a dress people! !! At a restaurant with my husband and kids, I was sitting next to my Tenn and the waiter came ti get our drink orders. I got a margarita and my son got a coke. The idiot brings back the drinks and sits the margarita in front if my son. I said, I don't think so he's still too young and im the mom and I don't think so! He said, oh I thought you were his girlfriend. Huh!! What the hell! Yep im young with a teen ( im 32 and he is 15) but puke! Some people just don't think do they? :)
Two different women on separate occassions called my child when he was a baby "sexy". What? How is a baby sexy? I made a mental note to never ask them to baby sit.
I got kind of an inside-out compliment once at a science teacher's convention. My husband and I have published 4 dozen books together, and most have our pictures on the back, some older, some more recent. I'm 64, and of course the more recent ones are far less flattering, though more accurate. One male teacher came into our booth and surveyed two such pictures, looked at me with a squint, and then held up the younger picture and said, "I like this one better!"
Who woulda thought? His comment stung at the time, but I eventually I wrote it off as a probably-terminal case of geekiness on his part. He was a science teacher, after all.
I was told that I have nice hands.... This was told to me while playing ultamate frizby <--Sp. I still don't get it.
One of my friends in high school (who was known for putting her foot in her mouth) told me in front of all my friends that I'm not fat, but I'm not skinny; I'm "proportional." Um...thank you?
When I was 26, I had a few people that I worked with who were shocked that I was that old because apparently I looked like I was 19 (and they were even more shocked when they found out I had two children). At first I was a little insulted (do I really look that young??), but now that I'm older I take it as a compliment. I even say thank you when people tell me I look younger than I am. :-)
A (female) friend at work once told me, "Your breasts look very nice in that shirt." That was good for a laugh, at least my plastic surgeon did a good job with my reconstruction :)
Someone once told me that my DD had beautiful ears... OoohK.... lol.
people are so weird!
ive gotten tons of similar compliments, about age and looking young, because i am a young mom.
but someone once asked if i was the babysitter or the big sister. i looked way younger than i was, evidentally!!
oh, this next one makes me mad, my hubby and i are both white and blond our oldest three are bright blond and our youngest is a redhead, well every single time we run into someone who thinks they are sooo funny they always say, "Oh look at that hair! The redhead must be the milkman baby!" hahaha, if my kids weren't here i would punch you in the face.
this last one made me really confused and angry, but i just forced a smile and nodded, because if i opened my mouth i would have yelled at the poor old man. i figured his brain was just dilapidated.
this old man came up to me in a mostly hispanic neighborhood and said, "you have the prefect Aryan children, you must be so proud."
i think i was just like, "um okay" i was so shocked. after he left i turned to my husband and was like, "what is his problem? because we have white kids we are supposed to be white supremacist or something?" omg.
that was the worst one, i think.
I have very light blue eyes and get compliments constantly. However the compliment usually goes "You have gorgeous eyes, are they real?". or sometimes they ask, "are they yours?". Duh, yes they are real eyes and if they are in my eyesockets, who else could they belong to. I know they mean to say Are they contacts? It's just funny the way it comes out.
my husband introduced me to a nice older lady(70's). She was very sweet. I was with my then 2 yr. old and 1 yr. old and she was shocked when I told her they were both mine. She said, "but you don't look like your older than 15!" I was 23. Thanks.
Once I had to take my newborn to a meeting and he slept through the whole thing. At the end a co-worker said, pointing towards him, "see that's a GOOD baby". I was like, no, he's just unconcious.
And today his daycare provider told me, "when I first met you I remember you were skinny. Now you have curves." Thanks.
In high school a girl in my dorm told me I had pretty eyes, then asked if she could stick her finger in them. She had very little impulse control, I was lucky she asked first, she was known for randomly sticking her finger into her boyfriend's nose!
She's matured wonderfully and is about to be a mother. Odd girl to kind woman. :)
My mom once said to me, "How did you and hubby manage to make such beautiful babies?"
My mother-in-law once said to me, "You're only beautiful when you smile...you must be part Russian!"
Great post! Thanks...
You're the nicest mean person I have ever meet. Gee, thanks?
I've actually been told this twice now. Both times coming from a more....shall we say meek?....type of girls. I think because I have a few rough edges, am not afraid to speak my mind, and because I used to do martial arts that, that makes me "mean". LOL I'm not sure though.
