To sometimes find 'woe is me' posts annoying

[dancinginthehall]

Not all the time, sometimes they're very relevant to a thread and add a new perspective to a subject.

But sometimes on a thread where someone is wondering about say, someone having their music switched up too high on the train so it's seeping through the headphones and you have a poster who comes on and says:

"Well that could have been me this morning OP because I'm recovering from the flu, have a ds who wakes up at 3am every morning, a Manager who hates me and a landlord who hasn't fixed the washing machine despite SIX phone calls in the last two weeks. So sorry if me trying to listen to some music and accidentally turning it up too high offends you, but actually I have more important things on my mind."

AIBU to just find these tirades a bit irritating?

I’m sure people who do this on MN do it in real life too! Also, when I’ve sincere problems in my life I was equally if not more annoyed by small things - like ‘my dad’s ill in hospital and WHY IS YOUR BAG ON THE SEAT OF A BUSY TRAIN’. So I never achieved this misery perspective.

i think you're right pingu when you're already down everything seems worse and you have less patience for things.

Yes, they're probably the same people who you meet in RL who are the Elevenerifers, you know, you say you've been to Tenerife, and they say they've been to Elevenerife.

It's like the Four Yorkshire men sketch.

Oh dear lord - have just remembered a flatmate I had like this in my younger days... honest to goodness a friend of ours nan died (they were really quite close I think she bought him up), and she genuinely turned around and compared it when her car died... it was literally before the funeral

@NottonightJosepheen
I find tangential vignettes rather fascinating

Love that turn of phrase! 👏

I know someone in rl who is like this. Doesn't matter what anyone else has gone through in their life, she's always had it worse. I have known them all my life and truly can't remember a time when they have ever not tried to top someone else's sadness/bad luck/illness. It finally got so bad that I am now nc. So sad.

I find it amazing how people get upset by the slightest thing or they have to ask if they're being unreasonable about the most idiotic things. There seems to be a total lack of confidence in them, I don't think that I ever sought the opinions of others in bringing up my children, unless they were medically qualified to give it.