How would you deal with this?

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I bet when written down this seems really insignificant it it is so irritating!
I have an acquaintance who, I know, likes me more than I like her. I find her hugely irritating but try not to show it. She has this habit of correcting people. She thinks she is highly intelligent and comments often on how thick others are. I think this is relevant.
Two examples that happened recently - we were talking about advent calendars and I was laughing about the crappy ones we used to have in the 60's. Cardboard, no chocolates or anything behind the doors, just a picture of a ball or something and you always opened 24 early - always to find Jesus Mary and Joseph behind the door of no 24. She leapt in and corrected me "25!" We didn't have 25 doors, we had 24 and I just repeated that - but why correct me in the first place? It just doesn't matter! And she was wrong anyway!
Later, we were talking about a knitting stitch. For the knitters amongst you, I said I dislike rib but really hate moss stitch. She leapt in and said "they're the same thing". They are not - the action is the same but the feel is different because you are kind of going against the grain with moss stitch so it is more awkward, I think.
It really gets on my tits, it interrupts the flow of conversation and I find it rude.
How would you deal with it? Without falling out?
( no idea how long this is, I'm on my phone, can't see! Hope a few people manage to get to the end!! )

Feeling nostalgic and festive all at once!

Festive Kippers! 😂

In despair I once said to someone 'Why do you have to argue about everything?'

It stopped for quite a while and has become less frequent. I find that a 'look' will stop it now. Then I can continue with what I was trying to explain.

Am I right in thinking that one of the pictures was a sheep from the 3 shepherds? I could be getting it confused with the donkey :D

i will keep you updated as my kids open theirs during december

Can I remind those of you who are explaining her position that she is WRONG?! Wring, wrong, wrong!!!
And even if she were right it pisses me off so much that I would find a way of proving that she was wrong!!
Anyway back to what now seems to be the point if the thread, knitting aside
Sleigh, yes. Donkey not ringing a bell and I think sheep would have been in the tableau that lurked underneath door 24?
To the poster who had the nativity scene ( and it was a nativity scene, not just a nativity)
To everyone else too, so great to know I'm right
To those who have an affinity with this person - it's been really interesting to hear your reasoning, thank you. I still think it's bloody rude and really interrupts the flow of conversation though.

Sorry flowers to the poster who had the nativity scene behind the wrong door !

My eldest does this, it's so infuriating!
Hoping it is a phase.

70s kids here, definitely 24 doors, and usually the 24th door was a double. Often a nativity scene, sometimes a star.

And a pp mentioned a candy cane. I do remember seeing them pictured at times.

Moss stitch v rib stitch: I can't knit, only crochet, so couldn't back you up there

Argh YANBU!

I know a mum from school who thinks she is right about every bloody thing and when you correct her wrongness (yes I know that's not a word) she will argue and argue and then get the hump. A while ago we were talking about a legal matter which I had recently been through, she had no actual experience of it at all and I stated a fact wrt to certain figures. She said "no its not its X amount" and I said it isn't, it's Y, I've just been through this (the figure I had originally stated) and she kept saying "no its not! It's X" and she wouldn't have it and got really pissy with me. I went home and googled as she had me doubting myself and I was right. Pisses me right off as she is like it with everything.

My relative is the same. He always thinks he is right about everything and god forbid you ever have a differing opinion. He kept going on and on about how he did karate. DS does karate as relative was talking about the one he did and I realised he was talking about taekwondo, which is a martial art but completely different. I told him this and he wouldn't have it. In the end he turned away from me and refused to speak to me! I googled it at home (again they make me doubt myself) and I was right, karate originates from Japan and is mainly about punches, taekwondo originates from Korea and is mainly kicks. I emailed it to him. He still calls it karate. I think he does it deliberately.

My advent calendar only has 24 doors (and chocolate) - I just went to check.

And the 24th is a normal sized door - it should be bigger!
But even if it was 25 she's still unreasonable butting in continually.

OP you aren't wrong. We had a similar person who used to organise our annual xmas pub quiz so plonked herself on the team even though she was the stupidest person I've ever met.

She was also very obstinate. A question would be asked and someone would whisper the right answer and we'd all agree when she'd butt in with the wrong one. We used to try to change her mind but eventually give up when she'd say: 'I've organised the team and I'm in charge of the answers sheet.'

For three years we came last out of 20 teams. Then she went on maternity leave. I'm not saying we won or came anywhere near the consolation prizes, but we got into the middle rankings and the quizmaster called for a test for performance enhancing drugs.

Number 24, single door?? You have been done!

There was always a side view of a king holding up a gift too. Just saying!