School mum of child in my child’s class so can’t totally escape, meaning I have to see them at drop off/ pick up some times per week.
we started off fairly good friends but then she became draining, always gossiping about people’s things going on, not really very interesting to talk to because all she talks about is other people or something negative. She has this way of making herself sound positive but actually is quite negative. If I say for example, I’m going somewhere she will make comments like oh I heard it’s going to rain. Sounds petty but this is years now of always having a comment on something. She makes the same old ‘in jokes’ that aren’t funny and now repetitive. She gets involved in the children’s dramas. Our children are friends so it’s hard to ignore her, she is one of these people that knows everybody’s business because she comes across all nice and helpful but my feeling is that she really needs to know what’s going on, it’s so weird.
what do you make of it? There is more I could add, the sight of her now, gets me tense because I do not want to face a conversation with her.