To think that if you're just going to moan, talk to someone else?

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I bumped into a passing acquaintance.

She told me about how exhausted she was and how hard last week had been because she's been to the Paralympics, 2 days, spent another with the grandchildren and then had a late night when she'd been out to the theatre. Then how awful it is that's she's lost a stone in weight, but wishes it could be more.

Couldn't she have tried to tell me how fab it had been to do so much exciting stuff and to have made a great start at the weight loss?

And yes, I know I'm moaning

Some people LOVE to offload. I am regularly left when a school Mum answers in a big loooooong speech to my "How are you?" and explains how her boss is horrid, her son is naughty, she's got toothache and can't go to the party and her mortgage is awful and she hates her husband.

It seems to happen to me all the time!

I don't ask people how they are unless I am genuinely interested eg my dad. Otherwise I just say "hello".

That's not moaning, that's stealth boasting.

Did you meet my mum?

ahh, she just hit a bad moment and you happened to be there. don't pretend you have never done that!

I think she was trying to make it sound as though she wasn't boasting