To think some people dramatise everything?

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A woman I've come into contact with via the school seems to make everything into a drama. She has two girls; one is 5 and one is 2. Her mum comes round every single morning to look after the 2 year old as it's 'not possible' to do the school run (to a school a 2 minute walk away) with 2 children.

If her children have a cold, she says it's flu. If they are sick once, they have 'gastrointeritis'. She talks about her labours with both girls and said they were so traumatic and painful even though from what else she has said they just sound like normal labours. She said there was 'no time' for an epidural with her youngest DD yet she was in hospital for 12 hours in labour before having her. She volunteers all this information btw. The mum had back pain the other week, just a lower back pain from picking up her youngest but when she picked up her eldest from school that day she was saying how the doctor had told her to come into the surgery for a very urgent appointment. Everything is dramatic.

AIBU to think some people dramatise normal everyday things? Why the flip do people do this?

YANBU, and they do it so they don't need to face just how sad and pathetic their little lives really are...

YANBU

People like that drive me mad so I normally just nod and avoid listening to the drama, by suddenly remembering I have to be somewhere.

There are some posters on here who are the same...even when they name change you can work out who they are by their sheer drama llama attitude to normal everyday things.

Why? Attention-seeking. 'Crying Wolf'. Their life is so boring they have to big it up with exaggeration. As in the fable, it works well until there's a genuine crisis and no-one takes them seriously any more.

YANBU. My ex mil is lovely, but very much like this.

I agree, PurplePidjin. It's just so infuriating to have to listen to it isn't it? The woman will for example come walking up to me at school pick up and I'll say 'Hi, how are you?' and she'll say 'Oh you won't believe what's happened today' and it'll be something mundane such as going into town and her DD losing her comforter and her having to go back to Boots to retrieve it, or her daughter refusing her lunch. And then as we wait at the same classroom for pick up I'm stuck with her until our DDs come out (usually late!)

It's called having no life! Have an aunt like this

YANBU. DD has a friend whose Mum is like this. Also, she's always flapping and fluffing around as though she's the busiest person on earth. Making a huge deal about having to get stuff done. As though she's the one that has to cook, shop, clean etc.

Gets on my pip.

remote, the woman I know is just like that too. Always walking along in a flap, red-faced and sweat dripping down her forehead 'Oh I've got to get home and cook. It's such a task cooking for 4 people' and then making a big deal if she has to go to the local shop after school to get milk or something.

I lived with a hypochondriac once. She exaggerated every minor ailment and bored me to death with stories of the next alternative cure for these imaginary problems. One day I said 'but there's nothing really wrong with you, is there?'.... Oohh dear... didn't go down well at all. But at least she shut up about it. Suggest a similar strategy.

Haha yes I am tempted Cogito, very tempted. I'm not one for listening to medical problems at the best of times but listening to them told by a raving hypochondriac drives me mad

Yes, they are. They really, really, really are.

But, she might have a point about the epidural. If the hospital had, say, a 6cm minimum for an epidural, and she was at 5cm for ages, and they didn't check, until she was 8cm, but then the on-call anesthetist was in theatre, and then...

It could easily happen.

On everything else, she's a llama, though.

Llama?

Drama llama.

Possibly BigJessie but knowing her I think she was just being dramatic. You know on American shows about hospitals or women having babies there is always such a big thing made about medical things (because theyre paying and presumably every little thing is tested for and diagnosed)? Well she's like that. She had low iron in pregnancy, as 99% of other women seem to but even that was made into a drama.

I love the phrase Drama Llama and plan to use it regularly now!

OP you know my neighbour don't you?

she is exactly like this to the power of a hundred and she's driving me around the fucking twist because she wants to be my best friend and I can't escape. After 20 minutes in her company I want to chop my own head off.

YANBU. There are definitely people who make a huge thing out of nothing. Drives me nuts.

I loved this even before I saw the words on it

yep - I hear ya!

Me and my DH know someone who does this - we say that they are living their life as if they are in a film! It is very wearing

YANBU, there is a women in our PTA like this. The other week she came into school "shaking" because she'd seen a dead fox (roadkill) that she was sure had been killed deliberately because it had been decapitated.

At pick-up time she updated us that she had been on the phone to the RSPCA about animal cruelty, the council about removing the carcass as it was distressing her children (I'll give her that one ) and the police because she thought they needed to be
aware that someone was mutilating animals and this is the first step to becoming a serial killer (step away from the Criminal Minds boxset).

YANBU over dramatic people get right on my wick , I know people who moan and groan all day about how hard it all it , how their children are always ill and its all so woeful , I want to shout oh shush your face . woman i know will saw OW OW OWWWWWW if she has hurt herself Untill somebody looks at her usually me as i work closest to her , I have tried ignoring her saying are you ok but the OWs just get louder , she does have a sore knee after an accident but TBH all the OWWYs really piss me off

I have a facebook friend who i had to hide because she listed all her ailments aches pains her arguing with her teens friends or kids at school if she felt her precious children were being victimised , every bloody day there was something .

Hahaha - yes! The person who thinks they are the lead in a romantic drama! I used to work with someone like that. God, she was an exhausting and annoying twat. She would pitch up late for work every bloody day and always have some story to bore us with about what happened in her love live the night before that meant she'd had a crap night's sleep and couldn't make the train on time.

Once she was a few days late for her period and she was having yet another drama with her on-off long term BF. She came into work all flustered and told the whole office that she'd split up with him again, they couldn't live together yet couldn't live apart etc, and 'What the hell am I going to do now that I am carrying his bastard child?' Exact phrase.

I'll NEVER forget it. An office full of people all going

She hadn't even POAS. She came on about three days later.

I don't think yabu.

However, just to point out that it is possible to be in hospital for 12 hours and no time for epidural.

It happened to me. My cervix took a long time to dilate, but then it was suddenly fully dilated and I had to go on gas and air.

God it's even worse when they get pregnant

Instead of feeling genuinely pleased, most people inwardly think "Fuck, another 9 months and beyond of sheer drama"