I'm So Proud Of You

[barry1010]

When is it acceptable to say this? Total strangers have said this to me in the past. Why? Surely they should be saying that I should be proud of myself?
I have often said it to my children because they do make me proud to be their dad, I have said it my wife.

Why should an achievement or action of mine make a stranger proud? Has anyone else experienced this?

[douglas9401]

No. Do you work in a place making Union Jacks? :-)

[10ClarionSt]

I've had it said to me more than once this week. Tis true folks. I don't just sit in front of this screen all the time you know! There are "things" to do!

[Zacs-Master]

Maybe barry is Nicola Sturgeon's Barrister?

[barry1010]

Are you suggesting I'm banged up prison, douglas?

Okaym 10C, what you have to done this week to make others proud?

[aelmpvw]

pangs of jealousy here, total strangers never make complimentary comments to me

[ludwigvan]

Why would a total stranger say that you should be proud of yourself?

[johnny.5]

Barry
you have posted this in chatterbank, all by yourself, with no help at all. Well-done

I'm So Proud of You

[barry1010]

Ludwig, I've said to a total stranger. He had tried to save the life of a woman who had been knocked down and was absolutely distraught that she died. I drove him home, told his wife what had happened and told him he should feel very proud of himself - which was the truth as far as I was concerned.

[barry1010]

Awwww, schucks, Johnny. I'd like to thank you, Ab Editor, Spare Ed, my wife, my children, my parents......

[Zacs-Master]

Eh? you wrote 'Total strangers have said this to me in the past'. So what were the circumstances?

[ummmm]

The only people who said they were proud of me is my mum and dad.

[barry1010]

Zacs, one occasion was when I got my degree and another was when I stopped a man from battering his girlfriend in the street and he battered me instead. A man who had watched the whole thing patted me on the back and said, 'I'm proud of you, son'. He wasn't my dad (as far as I know!)

[ToraToraTora]

you don't half have some weird stuff going through your loaf me old china!

[gulliver1]

Carrie Symonds says it to her partner every day.

[AuntPollyGrey]

There is a difference between a stranger telling you that you should be proud of YOURSELF , and a stranger telling you THEY are proud of you.

[Zacs-Master]

I think in those circumstances it's shorthand for 'I'd like to think I would have done the same as you in that situation'.

[AuntPollyGrey]

I think Barry is just blowing his own trumpet :-)

[barry1010]

Nah, if I was blowing my own trumpet I would have told you that I reduced the girlfriend beater to minced meat and sent him home crying to his mummy.
It is fair to say he wiped the floor with me and knocked a tooth out. I was much younger then but hope I'd do the same again in those circumstances.

[Zacs-Master]

Then you should be very proud of yourself!


(see, that's how it works).

[ToraToraTora]

I'm proud of you bazza!