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Irrationally annoyed by a Facebook post

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irritatedgrumpyarse · 19/09/2013 18:31

Namechanged as this one definitely has the potential to out me.

Friend on Facebook posted this today - why on earth is is irritating me so much? If it had been written by an observer of the event I would get it.... but to write this sort of gushing crap about yourself I find, simply, weird.

Had an eventful start to the day, heading home from dropping DD in school I noticed a large group of children and a girl on the floor, I pulled over to find out what had happened as other adults turned up, we sent the group of children to school to get a teacher one adult rang her mum and an ambulance (as she had banged her head and hurt her arm).

I went into first aider mode, we got coats and blankets from some of the neighbours, a big umbrella from ours and I took my help for Hero's hoody off and gently placed it under her head and injured hand. (That's community spirit when you need it) :)

The girl was visibly distressed so kneeling in a puddle I calmed her by getting her to concentrate on slowing her breathing and spoke calmly and stroked the side of her forehead, she calmed down, the Paramedics eventually arrived and whisked her off to hospital.

Hope the girl is OK and on the mend soon, now for me it is back to the normality of everyday life, according to DS though I am a hero (he saw me looking after her as he got on the bus :)

A lovely thing to do, wasn't it? If that was one of my DC I'd be relieved and grateful that someone had stopped and taken care of them.

It's the way it's written I think, so bloody humble and worthy. Was there any need for telling the world your hoodie is a Help for Heroes one? Kneeling in a puddle? Seriously?!!

I know IAprobablyBU, it's Facebook, yada yada. But it keeps appearing in my feed and really annoying me. Seriously thinking about blocking her to stop it! She's a really nice girl usually. Am I being awful?

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ChuffMuffin · 19/09/2013 21:01

Reply to her with "get off the cross love, Jesus needs it"

Grin
shrinkingnora · 19/09/2013 21:03

Desperately - if you read it in the third person it sounds like take a break...

garlicbaguette · 19/09/2013 21:07

Grin RealName - spot on, you could run courses!

Madratlady · 19/09/2013 21:07

YANBU!!

Sorry to go a little off topic but I'm not sure what I think of Help for Heroes, what do they actually do? I thought the armed forces got a salary for the job that they do of their own free will and if they sadly did get injured or killed then them/their loved ones got a pension. And why just the armed forces? Surely people like firemen are just as 'heroic'?

I don't know the ins and outs of army pay/pensions etc or know a great deal about help for heroes so I may be way off with my opinion there, feel free to correct me.

edwinbear · 19/09/2013 21:10

Having recently taken a first aid course, she shouldn't have moved her head/neck to 'gently place' anything underneath it with a suspected head injury.

TootsFroots · 19/09/2013 21:11

It's a nauseating post and exactly the type of thing that made me delete Facebook

In fact, it is so bad are you sure it's not a joke?? Surely, noone could be that boasty about something like that.

GrassIsntGreener · 19/09/2013 21:12

Oh I'm with you. Kneeling in a puddle and a help for heroes top? And so much detail...nope...that status is far too 'ooh what an amazing person I am' for me.

It wouldn't annoy me as such though, I'd probably be slightly amused.

SarahBumBarer · 19/09/2013 21:19

I took my help for Hero's hoody off and gently placed it under her head and injured hand

Bleurgh! It's worse than Barbara Cartland

picnicbasketcase · 19/09/2013 21:22

I'm sorry but I would be so tempted to post a status in a couple of days like

'Well, that was an eventful afternoon. There I was, walking along minding my own business, like I always do, when suddenly a lady got out of a car, closed the door and trapped her skirt in it. The driver didn't notice, drove away, ripping her skirt off in the process. unfortunately this led to her inadvertently revealing her Age UK bloomers. Well of course I'm trained in lightspeed gusset concealment so I whipped out my Heart Foundation beach towel and fashioned a sarong out of it, whilst accudentally simultaneously wiping mud on my face from the exertion. She wanted to pay me a large reward but I told her that a donation to the Red Cross would suffice'.

Keepthechangeyoufilthyanimal · 19/09/2013 21:23

YANBU - she sounds like a complete tool and the way that is written smacks of 'please leave me a lovely comment below telling me how fab I am' what a total douche.

pianodoodle · 19/09/2013 21:26

one adult rang her mum and an ambulance

I must be tired I kept reading this as the adult rang their mum (not the girl's mum) and kept thinking it was a really strange thing to do Grin

Bizarre post it made me cringe reading it.

Talk about "here's me and who's like me?!"

Thisisaeuphemism · 19/09/2013 21:30

It's dreadful, truly. And if I were the girl and i saw that I would have gone from appreciation to loathing in seconds.

Thisisaeuphemism · 19/09/2013 21:31

I like picnics status better.

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irritatedgrumpyarse · 19/09/2013 21:39

just caught up with thread and snorting with laughter. realname that's excellent, I know a fair few of those types too! It does read like Take a Break, that could be what triggered my irritation, my ex-boss used to read that sodding trash every single lunchtime and insist on filling us in on the drama -and I know she sent her own tales of woe/martyrdom in an attempt to get 200 quid or whatever it is-

What further rankles is the use if Hero's. WIBU to respond with "Heroes. HTH."

Oh and her newest status is some tripe about karma - just in case anyone missed the fact that she's amazing so karma will reward her.

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irritatedgrumpyarse · 19/09/2013 21:40

fuckit *of

picnic that's ace!

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BoozyBear · 19/09/2013 21:43

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Thisisaeuphemism · 19/09/2013 21:50

But you didn't kneel in a puddle, did ya boozy bear?

Foxred10 · 19/09/2013 21:52

YANBU that is one of the most self congratulatory, wankish Facebook posts I have ever read Confused

Would have been sorely tempted to reply 'and what would you like, a chocolate watch?'Wink

mysticminstrel · 19/09/2013 21:53

I called an ambulance for a little old lady who fell over in the street once.

When the ambulance arrived I ran over to the paramedic and went "this is Joyce, she's 83 and has had a fall" like someone out of fecking casualty.

The paramedic just looked at me like this Hmm

I am cringeing even now as I remember it Blush

Oh, and YANBU!

ThePuffyShirt · 19/09/2013 21:57

I would have been irritated by 'hero's'. Once I read that I couldn't concentrate.

ThePuffyShirt · 19/09/2013 21:59

...and now I over the grammar - what a self congratulatory, boastful twit.

ThePuffyShirt · 19/09/2013 21:59

Grrr, I'm

Bellini28 · 19/09/2013 22:05

I'm so sick of the boast fest that happens on FB not to mention the emotional dimwits who feel compelled to update every facet of their personal lives.... I enjoy FB for ease of communication, immediate contact globally ( esp as I live abroad) but it has become a primary platform for people with self esteem issues. Pregnancy hormones has turned it into a cringe fest lately and i have to stop myself responding with sarcasm, but I am normally strangely fascinated by these people...... Self awareness anyone!!?

In fact I have one 'friend' who has played out an affair, subsequent divorce, moving her and child to other side of country to live with lover, marriage proposal, countdown to wedding in minute detail, his cold feet, break up, make up.... Restraining order, new lover (plenty of profile pic changes with new man and her child, who looks so sad in each pic) single status, in a relationship, single, In a relationship and now single with an update this evening extolling the virtues of only needing herself and no man blah blah blah....... Zzzzzzzz........ All in the space of two years! I haven't seen this girl in twenty years but as is the beauty of FB it allows you into people's lives, especially those happy to share Shock try as I might I cannot understand how anyone beyond the age of 18 can play their life out on a networking site.... Fricking weird and wrong. Weirdly entertaining though Wink

Sorry this was not my AIBU. OP you are NOT!!

Kamchatka · 19/09/2013 22:11

Oh I have a FB friend who insists on pointing out how fab she is in precisely this way.
She is rather nice but actually becoming insufferable.
Humblebragging defines this decade I'm afraid.

pictish · 19/09/2013 22:17

Oh and her newest status is some tripe about karma - just in case anyone missed the fact that she's amazing so karma will reward her.

Ha ha! Grin She loves it eh?

I've got a facebook friend of a similar persuasion. Fancies herself quite the People's Princess because she mowed her elderly neighbour's lawn once. Would deffo follow a self promoting status, thinly disguised as a by-the-way, with an inspirational quote relevent to whatever attribute she fancies herself as having that day. She's actually a mercenary cow.
I'd ditch her, but she's my good friend's sister, and admittedly, I love to hate her.

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