Have you met someone who says this? They suddenly drop into an existing conversation and assume everyone is/was focused on them before they arrived and spoke!
I’ve experienced it a few times in my life.
On one occasion, I heard both lines spoken in the exact order I’ve written above. That person couldn’t help themselves. She demanded to know the status of the group’s conversation. She was simultaneously on the attack and defensive, covering both outcomes — suspicious while phishing for answers to confirm what she believed was true.
The truth was she wasn’t the topic of any conversation but that didn’t seem to matter to her. She required more from us. She wanted to know the reason why she wasn’t the centre of our world.
If that wasn’t enough, she then took hold of the conversation until she was satisfied that those around her were under her control. We forgot what we speaking about and she took over until the wee small hours.
She got drunker, louder and more aggressive as the night went on.
When I was younger, I’d put up with such social arrangements believing it was the polite thing to do. These days I don’t do that. I just walk away, choosing personal comfort over propriety. There’s no reason to persist with rude, insecure, attention-seeking fools. Staying only feeds their monsters. I’d be wasting my night supporting them, handing their beasts treats until their bellies felt better — knowing their stomachs would never fill completely anyway.
Staying meant I’d also miss out on meeting other people, those who weren’t so needy or dependent on the reassurances of strangers.
How about you? Have you met someone like this?
What did you do when confronted with this situation?
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