People Share The Weirdest Compliments They've Ever Received

People Share The Weirdest Compliments They've Ever Received
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Compliments totally rule. Someone takes a moment to not only direct their full attention to you, but they follow that up with a wonderful testament to your worth.


It's tough not to blush.

But what if the compliment comes in a package that's just a little off? Sometimes, it's all about delivery.

Some Redditors gathered to share the most bizarre compliments they've ever received. Some were back-handed, some oddly specific, and others were just plain confusing in all regards.

icylilith asked, "What's the weirdest compliment you've ever been given?"

The Imagery 

"From a teacher: You're like a barb wired fence, maybe something gets past you, but it leaves tattered pieces behind."

"(I'm not very attentive, but somehow I manage to pick up info I need and use it appropriately)"

-- Bulls_N_Glitter

Quite a Character

"A coworker once told me that I was 'a cross between Han Solo and Dr. Bunson Honeydew from the Muppets.'"

"This was in 1998 and I still can't stop thinking about it - was that supposed to be a compliment? An insult?"

"The worst part is that he was pretty accurate, actually."

-- guestpass127

The Human Couch!

"'You look comfortable.'"

"Not as in I looked relaxed. She meant I looked comfortable to rest, lean or lay on. At first I asked if she was politely saying I was fat."

"She explained that I had a look about me of being someone who would comfortable to cuddle with and not hog space or covers."

"I took it as a compliment. I hope it was. This was a stranger I was having a conversation with during the morning train commute maybe three years ago. Came from out of the blue, as well."

-- TokenCommonMan

A Wonderful Quality in a Human Being

"I, an 18 y/o male at the time, was cat-called while walking up the street."

"The assailant screamed 'YOU HAVE VERY GOOD POSTUUURE' lol"

-- cooooook123

Talent Scout

"'You look like you're good with your elbows'"

"Said by a 50+ year old man biking by. He then swung back around telling me I should try out for the local roller derby team.."

-- JcaJes

Questionable Motives

"Random stranger while I was on a run: 'NICE NECK'"

"I'm not saying I believe in vampires, but I made sure my windows were all locked that night."

-- MagnoliaJoness

A Fully Fleshed Out Description

"That I'm like a piece of furniture, don't do much but you notice when i'm not there." -- j0-hn-dea-ux

"Lemme guess... IT guy?" -- weeglos

"Are you a bass player?" -- fossowl

Case Closed

"I work retail and was told this by a customer, 'you're so nice, you must have been bullied in highschool.'" -- monkeybuttgun

"By 'nice' they mean overly eager to please other people, to the point where you will let people walk all over you." -- cookiesforwookies69

Calling It As He Sees It

"'You look.... ominous.' - the mailman said to me while I sat on the curb reading TIME magazine waiting outside my apartment for the mail to arrive." -- Worlds_Best_Coffee

"A lot of people try very hard to look ominous and can't do it." -- that1prince

"I like your mailman. Is it just me or are our collective mail people just chill as f*** despite the stress they are under all the time??" -- WhenUDieIGetYourWigs

Personified Organs

"During an internal ultrasound I once got told I have beautiful Fallopian tubes. I've been riding that high for years." -- eating_mandarins

"During pelvic floor PT they have the ultrasound on so you can see that you're doing the exercises correctly."

"When you do it correctly your cervix curls up a bit and looks like it's smiling. My PT said, 'Look at that happy little cervix.'"

"Now whenever I do my kegels, I picture my smiling little cervix. (•‿•)" -- alamuki

Nerd Garb 

"In 7th grade, I wore a fanny pack to school to hold stuff like Yu-Gi-Oh cards, which I played with at lunch."

Once while walking down the hallway an 8th grader I never met before was like 'Duuude I like your fanny pack,' gave me a high five, and kept walking."

"I never saw him again, and miraculously nobody ever picked on me about it (to my face at least)."

-- DragonLance11

Wonderful Anatomies 

"I had pink eye and the nurse was looking into the non infected eye. 'You have beautiful retinas.' Thank you...?" -- SaiyanKasuna

"This just reminded me of the weirdest compliment my dog has ever gotten."

"His vet called me to update how the test results went, and left a voicemail that started 'Well, the results are in, and Gio has got beeeeautiful blood! Beautiful!!'" -- samogi

Little Kid Logic 

"My 4 year old son told me I smelled like music. When I asked what kind of music he said 'music you dance to.' Still the best compliment I have received to date!" -- sdurb

"My three year old just tells me I'm a good pooper. I think I prefer yours." -- shrinkingmama2

"Ugh I love random 4 year old comments! Mine told our friend he smelled like inflammation. I still haven't figured that one out." -- eeepsnm

Sting Operation 

"A woman i was talking to in my dad's shop thought i was not me but my sister. When i tried to correct her that i am me, she told me 'no you are not, [insert my name] is fat and has short hair, she is not beautiful like you.'"

"Like, wtf lady"

-- wildpandda

Wined and Dined

"My friends and I were talking about what kind of potatoes we'd be."

"One of my best friends told me, 'You'd be a loaded baked potato. People pay extra for that good sh**!'"

-- silvermoonchan

Public Displays of Affection 

"It was a crowed Australia day celebration in the city. Sh!t was getting a bit out of control and everyone had way too much to drink. I tried to walk quietly by a bunch of fairly aggressive trouble makers, without attracting attention..."

"One of them shouts out, 'Hey everyone look at that guy. He looks awesome. I want my children to look like him.'"

"F***ing everyone stops and looks at me. Some people nod and go 'Yeah!'"

-- PM_UR_REBUTTAL

A Whole Mess of Emotions

"An old lady once told me she wishes she was 60 years younger, then she would 'give me some confidence.'"

"It was the most unsettling, funniest, and somehow most charming compliment I've ever received."

-- InvaderSquibs

Doppelganger

"Maybe not the weirdest but definitely the one most out of left field."

"I was walking down the street minding my own business and this guy sitting on the corner looks at me and goes 'EVERYBODY GET A LOAD OF ANTONIO BANDERAS OVER HERE! HAHA HOW'S IT GOING ANTONIO???'"

"I only maybe kinda look like Antonio Banderas but he's a handsome dude so I always took it as a compliment."

-- P-rov

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Professional Secrets From Customer Service Employees

"Reddit user Psychological-Name15 asked: 'Customer service workers of Reddit, what secret can you reveal from your former company?'"

Customer service jobs are not for the faint of heart.

Dealing with people at their angriest and rudest does not breed a positive work environment.

Customer service can be a downright toxic job.

And if it's not the customers setting your spirit on fire, it's the companies themselves.

Some companies seem to revel in creating discontent.

That's why these types of jobs have such high turnover.

Redditor Psychological-Name15 wanted the customer service reps out there to give us some truths, so they asked:

"Customer service workers of Reddit, what secret can you reveal from your former company?"

I want to know about the inner workings of Comcast!!

I loathe them!

Oh Dear

Jennifer Lopez Smh GIF by American IdolGiphy

I used to work in tech support for Citi Bank. The people working there are not intelligent. My favorite interaction went like this..."

"Banker - How do I type the upside down I?"

"Me - Ma'am, that's an exclamation point."

slappy_mcslapenstein

The Crappy People

"In every CS job I’ve ever had: we will bend over backward to help a nice person. We will expedite any complaint, give maximum compensation, and harass other areas of the business for you."

"We will do the absolute bare minimum to help a shi**y person and if you’re really bad, we will do everything in our power to make sure you get nothing but what you’re legally entitled to and it will be a process to get that."

11catsinahumansuit

"I don’t work in CS but 100% the same for us in IT a nice person will get new stuff while a shi**y person will get questionable secondhand crap that will take 12 months to fix! I will make sure that you wait as long as humanely possible to have anything fixed!"

Sharp-Demand-6614

Go to Holiday Inn

"If you ask for a supervisor calling Marriott you will just get another person who is not a supervisor, but say they are."

cryptnificent

"Yep. I've seen this done numerous times across multiple industries. Usually, it only involves an actual sup if it's a genuine problem or if they want to make a point."

"The last job I had was in towing junk cars. Two of the inside buyers, one male, and one female, would bounce that sup card around constantly. Idk how no one ever put it together. We'd get repeat callers and repeat sellers so I don't know."

ItsBobFromLumbridge

Heartless

"Worked at a contracted call center for Centrelink. The manager told us to deny as many emergency payments as possible and they would back us no matter what. They were actively working towards a culture that despised the callers and churned staff to get heartless right-wingers who hated the poor."

Rizza1122

"I feel ya. My best mate is a quadriplegic. Centrelink denied his disability pension because he wasn’t disabled enough."

Less-Storage

Go to Home Depot

You Are Dumb Patrick Star GIF by SpongeBob SquarePantsGiphy

"I worked at Lowes. I didn't know anything about anything in the electrical department yet that's where they put me without any training."

Eattherich187

Not training people is not just a Lowes thing.

There are too many unqualified people doing too many things.

Switcharoo

Drag Race What GIF by TAZOGiphy

"Can confirm it's an unwritten policy for deli departments in Coles Supermarkets to change the written expiry dates on their tickets so they can sell out-of-code products at full price."

REDDIT

A Little Sunshine

"I worked at a call center for the billing department of a major internet and cable service provider. We were authorized to give up to $90 credit per customer on their bill but only as a last resort. Always remember to be nice to all customer service workers. You never know just how much they can help with a friendly attitude."

Axel_Dunce

"Former call center employee here. Highly accurate. Use your manners, and well fix your issue. Anything else, just makes us want to take longer, and you won't get a credit. Just because we are authorized, doesn't mean you'll get the credit for being an a**hat. haha. I've been verbally abused a few times for asking them not to swear at me. Lol."

Ok-Ad-7247

LELU

"I worked for a major telco company for many years in something called a ‘LELU’ which stands for Law Enforcement Liaison Unit. This 'unit' is pretty self-explanatory, but it essentially is a team who worked directly with the police/FEDS to monitor people's information for things such as obtaining communications history of call logs, SMS loss, etc."

"However, most importantly, the software we used, we as agents could directly see all your SMS texts, including MMS and their explicit imagery of whatever you were sending. This would include sexting, naked images, family photos, and everything. There were instances where people abused this position by stalking or 'monitoring' their SO’s comings and going’s."

MidniteMischief

Cookies!!

"I worked at a cafe chain called 'The Cookie Man,' 95% of their cookies arrived in cardboard boxes layered with bubble wrap. The last 5% arrived as pre-made dough that we would bake on-site to make the place smell like fresh cookies."

"I also worked at a cupcake shop. It's literally just packet mix that you add eggs and oil to before baking/piping pre-made icing onto. Don't waste your money on these places, 90% of these chain shops are the same and most are severely underpaying their workers (this is for Australia btw). Just purchase some packet mix from the supermarket and call it a day."

Frequent-Selection91

Look in the Back

"I was a Store Manager for a very large grocery chain and I can tell you that 95% of the time when customers complain to the manager, we may be professional and show empathy, and even resolve the problem."

"But then we usually just make fun of or talk crap about the person who complained to the other employees. And when a customer is really rude when we go 'look in the back' for something, we legit just stand around and talk to other employees, and make zero effort to look for the item."

A_Womans_Thoughts

From the Box

Kaitlin Olson Brunch GIF by The MickGiphy

"I once worked at 'the area's premiere day spa'; the mimosas were made with Sunny D and not real orange juice, and the wines came out of a box."

SailorVenus23

Sunny D and champagne?!?!

What in the name of Lucifer?

Who does that?!

Do you have anything to add? Let us know in the comments below.

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