Don't ya just love backhanded compliments?

[luvwinnie]

Woman I know through work who is about 70, looks good, very into the hair/makeup/nice clothes, but she is the type that looks you over and up and down, said to me at a dinner last week: "You look very pretty." Great! You should always just STOP THERE at a compliment....but no, she adds "You put on makeup." LOL....Umm, I had on makeup earlier that day too, but the level of makeup I wore was different, I was stuffing bags with our brochures, getting dusty, wearing jeans, etc....got any similar stories to share?

 

[Shugardrawers]

You'd be so pretty if you only lost a little weight.

 

[Mysteria]

I just love your curly hair. Ever think of doing something different with it?

Myst

 

[poohtown]

my mil is the master of backhand compliments (think Everybody Loves Raymond).

how's:

"this is sooooo good......considering you're not really a cook"

"you look nice today....not your usual look"

or my favorite

"you are so easy to shop for.....because you're so low maintenance"

 

[Sandcass]

you look great, are you actually wearing makeup?

 

[OceanAnnie]

How about, "I like your shoes. Are they real suede?" !

 

[MinnieM21]

You hair and makeup looks really good. You actually look your age now. (so did I look like a baby before????..I'm 20 but I guess I look young for my age.)


You look so good. Did you gain weight? (so are you saying I am a cow...or I did I just look like death before?)

 

[Nancy]

I got that at work the other morning. Team leader (male) says to me. "wow look at you this morning, you have your hair all done up nice and your makeup on, you look good" Now since this is a 23 year old who is very immature, and I'm 47, I just laughed and told him "I always do my hair up nice (it looked no different than any other morning) and I always wear makeup, no changes, you just see me at the end of the day instead of the beginning" He usually works evenings and sees me before I go home. So now I'm thinking I must look like garbage at the end of the work day.

 

[PneumaticTransit]

"You look so nice today, you actually look like a lady."

Um gee, thanks.

 

[WeirdEyes]

My MIL always says to me (when I've cooked something), "This is good, but you know what would make it better?" Every. Single. Time!

 

[dani0622]

my fav: You'd be so pretty if you'd get a breast reduction.

 

[WeirdEyes]

I got that at work the other morning. Team leader (male) says to me. "wow look at you this morning, you have your hair all done up nice and your makeup on, you look good" Now since this is a 23 year old who is very immature, and I'm 47, I just laughed and told him "I always do my hair up nice (it looked no different than any other morning) and I always wear makeup, no changes, you just see me at the end of the day instead of the beginning" He usually works evenings and sees me before I go home. So now I'm thinking I must look like garbage at the end of the work day.

I asked my DH one day if he likes my hair cut this way and he says, "I don't know because I see you at the end of the day!" So, I must look like crap at the end of the day also. Maybe we should start a club.

 

[Sandcass]

my fav: You'd be so pretty if you'd get a breast reduction.

YIKES!

 

[lulugirl]

My MIL always says to me (when I've cooked something), "This is good, but you know what would make it better?" Every. Single. Time!

Every time? After about the third or fourth time I would snap....you are a better woman than me!

 

[WeirdEyes]

Every time? After about the third or fourth time I would snap....you are a better woman than me!

LOL! It is actually joke in our family. I just tell her my DH cooked it and it is all good!

 

[experiment626mom]

I'm so glad you asked, here is one I just got a few minutes ago...

"Thanks, Marion. I appreciate your keeping it to the short list of nice things you can say."

This is in response to him telling someone to send files to me since he will just lose them. I responded with , "Well at least your honest!" Making sure that he knew I was joking.

 

[Sandcass]

I do in home daycare, my last kids get picked up at 6:30pm by their dad. That's an 11 day for me. He saw me on the weekend once, (ya know, NOT covered in formula spit-up, and playdough) and he told his wife, "wow, she looked nice, she's usually such a mess."

gee thanks

 

[Freyja]

"You have a really pretty face, you would be even more prettier if you lost some weight. Why don´t you loose some weight?"- I got this comment from two pakistani women at a hotel in Germany, total strangers.

 

[coliebird]

One of my favorites:

Your daughter is beautiful. She looks nothing like you.

Gee thanks LOL

I don't take it personal. She just happens to be my husbands twin. He could never deny paternity

 

[smallblock72]

my fav: You'd be so pretty if you'd get a breast reduction.

That one had to come from a woman, wouldn't hear that from a man!