To wonder if any people manage to go through life without hassle from others?

[Libbyella]

And if so, what is the secret to it?

I hate conflict and confrontation but I regularly (by that I mean once every 2 or 3 years) come across someone who is determined to fall out with me for some tiny or imagined misdemeanour. Not only do they fall out with me, they turn others against me by bitching about me too. I rise above things and just keep a dignified silence but it kinds of taints me as a person in other peoples' views.

Does this kind of thing happen to everyone, or am I just unlucky?

BurningBridges I'm slumped behind the parapet slurping Gin Fizz, if you care to join me?

(For my money AuntAcid nailled the thread anyway, but I'm keeping that to myself )

Some people are just difficult. I find it odd when they say they ignore the school gate mums- as if they are a breed apart and not individuals - that somehow they are not a school gate mum themselves!

Everyone I have contact with, apart from DH, DD and DS, are complete and utter fuckwits whose one aim in life is to fuck me about.

It's them, not me. And it's them. Not you.