Personality Types

What personality type(s) drive you crazy?

It's not exactly personalities that drive me crazy, it's a certain mindset/attitude/things people DO that drive me batty.

For example, I am staying at a homeless shelter for families currently, while looking for apartments. There are 3 people I truly can't stand.  One of them constantly screams at her child, acts like a total bitch and acts as if she's helping the other parents when she thinks kids are misbehaving. It's really, really annoying because she just inserts herself into this "second mom" role, but she's high strung and, well, bitchy.  I've also now seen her hit her kid hard enough to echo off the building next to her. If I knew her last name I'd turn her in to CPS.

Not out of cruelty, out of concern for the kid. Unfortunately, most kids by that age (8-10?) are already trained not to say anything to authorities.

Then there is someone who used to live in a mid-country state. I wouldn't mention that except that she does, all the time.  She complains when it's too hot inside. She complains when it's "too cold" outside. She complains about all the food, every day that is provided, for free by people out of the goodness of their heart.  She complains still about the fact that over a month ago, someone's dog apparently pooped on the floor. She complains about this other lady who changed her kid's diaper in the middle of the floor (a toddler is different than a newborn, she assured me.)

Mind you... her boyfriend/husband does that all the time. She complains non-stop, from dawn til dusk, even when no one is listening.  She laments that she's here (Portland, Oregon) and not back there. It's never-ending. It is exhausting to be around.

Then there is the third type that really gets to me.  Perhaps it's my lack of social skills that makes this so annoying. Perhaps it is just my disgust toward people, my sheer frustration.  Maybe it isn't really her, it's just me... but.  What I find extremely frustrating is when this woman, and other mothers like her, make snarky little comments if I ever complain. I don't tend to complain often about Aedric.  And I don't even really do it at all.. I just talk to him.  He does certain things that bug me a little, like when he tries to motorboat my nipple. Not kidding. So, just because hes another person, I'll talk to him like he understands.  I'll say "No, don't do that" etc.  And then usually this one person says something that would be fine were it not for the tone and attitude behind the words- "Oh, you just WAIT til he gets older, it gets so much worse"  With this grin of glee at how terrible motherhood is.

I even tried ignoring her once, right? And she got an attitude and said "Don't take it all PERSONAL..".


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