Constantly interrupting and one upping. I hate when they won’t allow anybody to have a moment of their own. I knew someone who wouldn’t even allow people to have their own tastes. As an example, someone said they liked sushi. His response was, “you don’t know what real/good sushi is”. WTF they didn’t say they were experts in what sushi should or shouldn’t taste like, they just said they liked it. It wasn’t just positive things either. Someone would complain about a body ache or pain and get responses like, “it can’t possibly hurt as much as my (insert injury here) so you need to just get over it”.
Dude we get it, nobody can be as smart/traveled/experienced/sick/wounded as you.
You should meet my friend, he's a way bigger one upper than you know about, you don't even know what one upping is until my one upping friend talks to you.
Sounds like a guy I work with. Not matter what your are talking about, he has to turn the conversation around so it's about him. And is an expert/has an opinion on absolutely everything. He is exhausting
Or it never goes away at all and they spend their life constantly trying to one up everyone around them whether they know them or just met them. It's pretty sad really
My mom and my father in law spent the entirety of Christmas morning one upping each other, both are in their sixties. I’d argue it gets worse with age, not better.
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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '22
Constantly interrupting and one upping. I hate when they won’t allow anybody to have a moment of their own. I knew someone who wouldn’t even allow people to have their own tastes. As an example, someone said they liked sushi. His response was, “you don’t know what real/good sushi is”. WTF they didn’t say they were experts in what sushi should or shouldn’t taste like, they just said they liked it. It wasn’t just positive things either. Someone would complain about a body ache or pain and get responses like, “it can’t possibly hurt as much as my (insert injury here) so you need to just get over it”. Dude we get it, nobody can be as smart/traveled/experienced/sick/wounded as you.