Mademoiselle Says.

"God, I hate people who think they're better than everyone else!"

Uh... Don't most people. Maybe a Buddhist monk won't, but then again, maybe a Buddhist monk would lecture such people. Anyhow.

"I've got this acquaintance, she's like so selfish! She insists on whining on and on and on again about her issues, her problems, the SAME issue that cannot be solved, and everyone is just too polite to say it outright that they're just plain not interested, or it's become too much. But then another friend started on their story and she's obviously not interested. And she made it no secret either. God, you gotta hate such selfish people. And she thinks she's the best one at the table. She thinks she handled and handles all her situations superbly, most definitely better than anyone else did anyway. And she's so proud of it. Little does she realize that she's the one who's been deluded for oh so long, it's just that I never wanted to tell her in so many words in case I shattered her poor poor heart or she turns on me and it all turns ugly. By the way, I've learned that friends don't tell friends the truth. Not unless you don't wanna remain friends anymore. So much for gratitude. People just SAY they want to know the truth. But in most cases, deep inside they already have their own opinion on the subject and if your "truth" does not coincide with it, then they deny it with a vengeance."

Ok...

"Anyway, so much for handling that situation superbly. God, she's just so high and mighty! And she thinks her assets are like oh so beautiful, good and well taken care of. Uh... household cleaning appliance anyone??? *incredulous look* Geez!"

... Ok... That was... Passionate.

*Sighs* "It's not that I really have anything against her or anything. She not a bad person. It's just... That character of hers can get really off-putting sometimes. And when she thinks she's so much better than everyone else present at the conversation, it gets patronizing and I don't like that. Who would? So... Yeah. I just needed a rant anyway. Even the best of us do." she says with a nonchalant wave of her stick and blows a cloud of smoke in the air.

Ok, I get you Mademoiselle. We do not like people who're know-it-alls and who think they're better than everyone else.

Personally, I agree. Friendship and loyalty and all, it still is very difficult to ignore stuff like that about someone especially when it's done quite a number of times, over and over again. And the thing is, nobody in their right minds is gonna say it out. Not unless they want a huge catfight or fight on their hands. Mademoiselle is right. People say they want the truth but they don't. Not really. They just don't know it.

So what do you think you should do? What would you do about a similar situation? Keep quiet about it, pretend not to notice or know anything and just grin and bear it? Then when you finally can't take it anymore, bitch behind the person's back and finally walk out on the "friendship"? That was a bit extreme by the way.

Yeah, that's about right. That's probably what most people would do.