Comments on: I’m Absolutely Not Fishing

By: Sally

Sally — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:51:24 +0000

Sally…

great post…I look forward to reading more! thanks alot!…

By: Veronica

Veronica — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 03:49:01 +0000

Arghhh! She would drive me mad.

Not sure that I have any good advice for you, although the duct tape sounds like a good plan!

By: yourgrace2001ca

yourgrace2001ca — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 02:32:45 +0000

I swear I did not do a search for this page, but I stumbledupon it, and it’s perfect:
http://marvin.ibest.uidaho.edu/~heckendo/usefulPhrases.html
I might just bookmark this one!

By: Gypsy

Gypsy — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 01:57:07 +0000

Love what Melissa said. I think that could actually be worth a shot. I do so love it when you insult someone and they are really not sure if you did or not. They keep away and you made it happen without being a TOTAL bitch (or at least they think so….lol)

By: Melissa

Melissa — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:34:03 +0000

Come on! You’re catty enough to take on a dozen Blondies! I’d have responded to the Preschool Brag:

Wow. I’ve heard that gifted and overachieving children can be a real challenge. Have you found that to be true?
No?
Well then Little Precious sounds just too good to be true, doesn’t she?
(Spoken with enough Southern Sugar and Midwestern Bluntness, Blondie will walk away completely unsure of whether you’ve complemented her or insulted her. Enough of this response and she’ll fear speaking to you altogether. Which is the desired result, right?)
P.S. I HATE people like this!

By: Kristabella

Kristabella — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:23:26 +0000

Just smile and nod. Don’t engage her any more than you need to.

Then one day hopefully, her head will explode from all the perfectness and you won’t have to worry about it.

By: wbppsh7

wbppsh7 — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:05:39 +0000

I have to agree with Cheri - you can only control how you react to her. I have one here in the office that tried to push her attitude around with me and that was it. So now when she tries to talk to me I continue to work and just nod and chuckle every once ina while, but honestly, it is going in one ear and out the other.

BTW, I dont’ care how ugly you are (physically) you still make me laugh, and we all need that. (Obviously joking about the ugly too!)

By: magneto bold too

magneto bold too — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 09:37:51 +0000

She works there too? Shit she can get around! I sit NEXT TO the woman. But she is short, dark haired and Italian…. and Arianna is the most perfect child on earth and HAS to go to the most expensive school in the area.

Imagine how her head exploded when darling Ari told us she wanted to be a hairdresser.

*snort*

smootches babe. Just punch her in the head.

By: Cheri

Cheri — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:41:33 +0000

My suggestion would be “smile and nod”, either that or pointedly ignore her no matter where she makes her attempt to speak to you. She will go away eventually.
In all honesty, she probably does talk about all that stuff in her “life” because she is either insecure with her position in this world or truely longs in her heart of hearts for her life to be the perfection that she makes it out to be.
Maybe she has no one else to talk to outside of work. Maybe she thinks of you as a friend. Maybe she “idolizes” you and thinks that your life is wonderful, and therefore feels that she must overemphasize her own life simply to feel worthy. Maybe she is just being malicious and wants to make others feel like tiny, unworthy creatures while making herself feel extremely important.
The thing is that you will never truely know why she says the things she does. You can only control the way in which you respond.

By: RC

RC — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:24:54 +0000

And this was another reason I started blogging… I get my fill of yammering on about my child (although he is not perfect, just perfect for us!), without scaring off the general public.

Maybe suggest to Blondie to start blogging? Either that or she needs therapy to figure out what she us trying to cover up…