Hey Pandas, What Is The Weirdest Compliment You've Ever Recieved?

I'm 16 and this isn't a weird compliment, just during a weird time. I was running a cross country race and this was a really big meet so there was a lot of runners. Anyways we were about 2 and a half miles in and this girl is slowly passing me. And everyone is dying, tired, and breathing really hard, and as she passes me she was really nice and said "good job" and then she looks at me and says "OH MY GOSH, YOUR SO PRETTY!" It made my whole day that the fact that she said that as I was dripping sweat and breathing like a dying cow in the middle of a race and she said I was pretty. If your out there, just so you know you made my whole month and I still think about it.

My boss told me I was too nice…. to get a promotion. He said he didn’t see me as director material because he didn’t think I could say no. Even though he had seen me do so when I needed to. He was constantly saying he felt I was being everyone’s concierge - I wasn’t. I was the newest person in a department of people that had been there a very long time and in a new position no one else had held, so I was doing my absolute best. If I had questions, I would ask him and he would often say what do you think. I tried not to consult him too often but when I did, this was more often than not his reply. Plus two years of my job was during the pandemic lockdown, so that made things even harder. He offered me a demotion with less pay or to leave and find another job. I ended up finding something else. I was at first very hurt but then I realized that I did my best in that job and was just being myself so that’s ok.

Little backstory: at school, I was 12, one very condescending classmate (she had money, I didn't, she cared about that, I didn't). Never even talked to me unless it was critisism.

In between classes she walkes up to me, starts talking really friendly. "Can I ask you something? " (I sense some sort of embarrasment) "sure" I tell her. "Well I kind of have a wedgie, how do I correct that? I'm afraid to ask anyone else and I thought you might know?"

Looked at her kind of dumbfounded and gave her the very obvious suggestion of just going to the toilets and simply correct it.
I'm sure there was a compliment in there somewhere.

Weirdest experience ever. What makes me the expert? Why come to me, you obviously loathe me and I don't care etc etc.

Of course told my best friend immediately and 26 years later we still have a good laugh over this!

"Wow! That's really good. I didn't think you had it in you." And "oh, you made that? I would have never guessed that was you." - both from my art teacher(who was so pompous she insisted we call her Dr since she had a PhD in art history)

Had a boyfriend in my 20s that once said “yeah you’re kinda cute.” Thanks?

*pulls up notes from the time I posted to Reddit’s roast me thread*

many, many, many comparisons to Cartman from South Park (I am a South Park fan but I’m a tad offended by it) because I’m *slightly* overweight.

“You’re a Jimmy/Timmy!” in reference to Timmy Burch/Jimmy Valmer, two SP characters that are disabled (they’re treated like normal kids by other characters and aren’t defined by their quirks) doesn’t bother me as I’m autistic myself and I have a speech impediment. Posted to a rate me thread (I was bored and I get that I’m rather unattractive)

Its Kyle's cousin kyle Schwartz! (I have glasses and short brown hair)

At work: I wouldn’t want a pretty girl like you to get hurt 😏

And many many many fat jokes/jabs at me to “lose weight” although it’s how my body looks

I had long, straight hair in high school, so I braided it while wet so it would have waves. I had some boy call me cousin it because my hair was dark blonde and I wear glasses.

Some guy really wanted to date me because:
goed vlees moet je niet laten lopen/ good meat should not be let go (or go to waste)

"you'd be really hot if you weren't a lesbian" uhhhh....thanks?

You're really pretty
-a random stranger at a summer camp

“Nice breasts”

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