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Why oh Why do certain people do NOTHING but complain???
I swear, if I was miserable enough to find a downer in EVERY situation she tells me about, I'd never leave my house. I know of a complainer and she does nothing but!!! Thats why I avoid her conversation like she has the plague. Goes on vaca and there is some kind of drama, the kids are drama, meals are drama. I just don't get it. Can't they see they have more than most people and just be greatful instead of dramatize and complain??? Most people can't go on several vacations a year, can't eat out, can't have kids.
I have put up with a miserable soul-less child at work the past few nights and I'm at my bottom and have heard enough. I'm going to bed.
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Maybe she just needs a good dose of Mickey? But she'd probably complain because she only saw him six times and she had expected at least 2 dozen! - for whichever one of you needs it the most.
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Maybe she needs to join the local community theatre. They might be able to appreciate her drama.
Maybe you could delicately point out to her that her chronic complaining makes her intolerable to be around. Or you could recommend a book-I can't remember the name, but it's something about how positive attracts positive and negative attracts negative.
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I bet she doesn't even realize she's doing it all the time. I'm awfully sorry that you have to put up with that.
I had a coworker who was in bad health with constant back pain. All she could talk about was her bad health, anyone in her large extended family's bad health, who was dying, who was in the hospital, who just had a funeral, etc. I think she thought that was normal conversation.
When she retired, she decided she wanted to go on cruises. Her husband's health was too bad (I swear he was on the verge of death for the last 20 yrs), so she would invite other relatives to go with her. That lasted for about three cruises, when she couldn't find anyone to go with her anymore. I think no one wanted to listen to her non-stop for a week.
I've got a neighbor like that and frankly, I've pretty much broken off any type of conversation with her (and she's finally gotten the hint). I just can't stand it anymore, and all it does is bring me down too. So I've decided to leave the situation, and I'm much happier for it
Unfortunately I've met people like that before. Not only do they drag themselves down, but they also tend to start dragging other people down as well.
The Office Disney Know it all is exactly that, and she is always the victim in every circumstance, I only speak to her when I have to. I call those kind of people "Toxic" and avoid them like the plague
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But she'd probably complain because she only saw him six times and she had expected at least 2 dozen! 
- for whichever one of you needs it the most.
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The Office Disney Know it all is exactly that, and she is always the victim in every circumstance, I only speak to her when I have to. I call those kind of people "Toxic" and avoid them like the plague
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