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I walked down to Wisconsin Ave for lunch at safeway.While in line, a woman came in behind me. She complained about the length of the line, even though I didn't think it was particularly long. She complained about the bank "stress tests". She complained about her cell reception. (Note, I'd said *nothing* to encourage her). She complained about the way the safeway dude made her sandwich. I was in her presence for about 10 minutes and I felt like I needed to be decontaiminated.

reedrover talked about wanting to be around pleasant people, and I have a much better idea of what she means now. I know three people with MS who are more pleasant that the ungrateful person behind me in the lunch line.

Now ever everyone will excuse me I'm going to manufacture a reason to walk across the campus to enjoy more of the sunlight. Everyone please have the most pleasant day that you can.

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intransitu.livejournal.com

Some people just need a reason to express their irritation, that they accumulate during the day or even the whole life and as it actually can't be thrown up on pets or furniture, they do it on other people, particularly on the ones, they don't know. It's a kind of habbit for some people and the only way out for their anger and irritation.

From:

reedrover

I know three people with MS who are more pleasant that the ungrateful person behind me in the lunch line.

That's a very interesting standard to use. I hope you mean that they have far more reason to complain and don't vs. that they complain all the time. Because at least one of those people is a shared friend of ours, and I think she's pretty powerful in her positiveness. ::fierce look::

Aside from that... I'm sorry you had to learn the hard way about why I have trouble with other people's troubles. Of course, I just spent a quick car ride dumping on one of my co-workers. ::sigh:: Sometimes it is important to get a chance to vent, too. It's a hard balancing act for me sometimes - to complain about other people being negative, and yet then turn around and complain about things.

From:

gsh

I hope you mean that they have far more reason to complain and don't vs. that they complain all the time. Because at least one of those people is a shared friend of ours, and I think she's pretty powerful in her positiveness.

I was thinking exactly of her, because she does work so hard at being a pleasant person. Of course she has her bad days, and I try hard to be a good friend when she vents, but she vents to *FRIENDS*, not to J Random Person in sandwich line. If sandwich lady had said *one* positive thing I might feel different about her, but sheesh.

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soubrettic.livejournal.com

I agree that long-term constant complaint is personal habit, and a nasty one. I think it has more to do with focus and a lack of insight into how others perceive the complainer, than it does with the comparative amount of trouble in a person's life.

I'm reminded of some friends, a couple who argued in company as they would alone until I finally threatened to leave in the middle of a lunch. They were utterly shocked, but they did stop doing it.

Edited Date: 2009-05-08 05:32 pm (UTC)

From:

wotw

Quit complaining!

:)

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ms-lemon.livejournal.com

bitch, bitch, bitch ..

See what wearing a posture collar/medical cervical collar could do to improve your people interactions? Hard for a person behind you to complain to you if you can't look back, down, sideways or any other direction than straight ahead, yes?

:)

From:

gsh

I'll take the fifth on that one.

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tamnonlinear.livejournal.com

Some people wouldn't be happy if you gave them a basket full of rainbows and a fleet of devoted penguin servants to bring them a thousand dollars every hour.

To be fair, I've heard than penguins smell kinda funky.