self-absorption
It's the attention-seeking element i find i have very little patience for. For some people, there is the implication that the trials and travails of their everyday meanderings are so endlessly riveting and engaging that you simply have to hear them, at length, in detail. Perhaps it's some kind of performance.
At worst, you feel constricted by their relentlessness. At best, you can simply dismiss them as a drama queen; the person who makes a paper cut sound like fighting in the Somme, whose last argument about clothes is comparable to Shakespearian tragedy. It could be because they wish to make their lives seem more dramatic, it could be that they naturally exaggerate (for comic effect or for conversational dominance), it could be because they genuinely believe themselves to be far more important than anyone else around them.
I don't know. I do know that this devalues their currency: not so much the boy crying 'Wolf!', more the boy crying 'Me! Me! Me!'.
At worst, you feel constricted by their relentlessness. At best, you can simply dismiss them as a drama queen; the person who makes a paper cut sound like fighting in the Somme, whose last argument about clothes is comparable to Shakespearian tragedy. It could be because they wish to make their lives seem more dramatic, it could be that they naturally exaggerate (for comic effect or for conversational dominance), it could be because they genuinely believe themselves to be far more important than anyone else around them.
I don't know. I do know that this devalues their currency: not so much the boy crying 'Wolf!', more the boy crying 'Me! Me! Me!'.
