the one upper.

We've all met this person. The 'one upper' is your friend, or foe, who's story is just a little more extreme than yours to make themselves look better. If you dropped your phone in the toilet, they flushed theirs. If you went to the mall and spent $100, they spent $200. I don't know what I think about people like that. I don't understand the process their brain goes through to make them believe that anyone cares. For the normal person, its just conversation. Asking "How was your day?" or "What did you do today?" is not the shot that starts the race of 'who did it better'. For some odd reason though, there are people on this earth who devote their every word to impressing themselves with how much better their story can be than yours. Half the time its pure bull. The narcisism is enough to make me want to stand beside myself and slap the hell out of the 'one upper'. Honestly, I have felt myself become that person on a few occassions and I try hard to check that personality trait. When I feel I am 'one upping' I simultaneously revert back to grade school after the Christmas holidays when we compared gift lists. It's such a petty and childish concept to want to try and out-do everyone in something so simple as a conversation. At any rate, all 'one uppers' should be locked in a room and hold a championship 'one upping' contest. The winner should be pushed off the edge of the earth. -nth