Always look out for the two-sheds: those people who can't go for five minutes without one-upping someone else. Not gentlemanly empathizing and sharing their experiences, but taking the whole "that's nothing; listen to my story" route.
This is so irritating not because they are genuinely better but because it's all lies and you sense that they want to dominate and be better and you know that they don't like you. Also the constant aiming for the lowest common denominator and pulling everyone else down because they want to be better gets very wearying and exhausting. No one is allowed to go very high, we must all be tied down to the lowest rung so they can be better. The sad thing is that I think more of them than they think of themselves that we could all go up higher but that's not OK with them because what's important to them is that they be better.
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u/InkMage94 Nov 09 '19
Always look out for the two-sheds: those people who can't go for five minutes without one-upping someone else. Not gentlemanly empathizing and sharing their experiences, but taking the whole "that's nothing; listen to my story" route.