There are board one uppers? I work with one of those as well. My sister has two friends that are one uppers and listening to the two of them in the car is absolutely painful. I don't know how my sister remains their friends. I would be calling "bull - shiet" all day long.
Goodness...being the "Friend of One Upper". Got a long time friend who's done this too many times. We're talking old stories to new people and he'll always take over and start embellishing the story, tacking on all kinds of extra cool stuff. If its girls, its like...if it works whatever But when its the dudes at the bball court or in a business lunch or whatever, impress mode still unnecessarily gets put into effect...So a few times someone might ask me out of the blue "Is it true that you ___ ?" And I'll be uuhh...and feel to ask Where'd you here that from, but I know...and awkwardly have to go with it and hopefully remember to not blow our story next time.
Another, I know there's a way you can set the one-upper guy to outdo himself... I once tried it, then... he one-upped me... LOL - Yao_Mac, that's the first thing I thought about. Here's the ultimate one-upper: <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ng-Iigt2Njw&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ng-Iigt2Njw&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
The one upper is the absolute worst. Also (somewhat related) - I hate it when I'm having a bad day at work, and I make mention of it, and someone says, "Well, at least you have a job." Really? At least I have a job? Maybe now it's okay to say that given our economic situation, but before, it was just really irritating. Like, that being a satisfactory reason for not having to expect a raise when I know I work my @ss off.
The guy that pissed me off to the point of posting this actually did one up himself in our "conversation". He told me a story at the beginning of the night and later he brought up the same story and added details that obviously should have been in the first version. This guy is a white poet who has a black wife and writes about the black experience. Dude had a bad night. I was performing at a college in front of 80-100 young black kids and he was to follow me with a few of his poems, before we went on we hung out back stage and talked...well, I listened and he talked. I told him about something really cool that is going on right now and he claimed to know the same people and advised me to be careful because they has screwed over him in the past. Really?. Don't ask me how, but I KNOW this not to be true. It would be like Von Wafer telling Yao how to handle the All-Star game. Anyway, this guy starts into this really racial poetry, the line that finished him off went something like, "...they called him a n****r and I just sat back and watched..." an equally frustrated girl in the back said, "awww hell naw!" and walked out. It got so bad until the coordinator stopped him in the middle of his presentation and asked me to do more time.
I would have loved to seen that.. Karma's a b****.. I knew a one upper, we call her "my brother has a boat" girl.. I was out with a large group of friends at a restaurant for dinner and she randomly overheard our conversation all the way from the other end of the table, we were talking about lake homes or something to that effect... Out of no where she randomly interjected "My brother has a boat!" awkwardly nothing else was said and she went back to one upping the other end of the table.. It was almost like she was going crazy trying to keep herself from not being able to one up everyone.. I don't mind being around her in large groups, because she provides great entertainment..
I used to work with a one-upper... I'm sure there are more in the office, but this guy was on my team - he was unavoidable... The story that really did me in was when he tried to tell me that his little 2" scar on his foot from bunion surgery was way more traumatic/extensive/time consuming than BOTH my 6" scar and my 9" scar on my hips from my total hip replacement surgeries from the osteoarthritis I have. This dude spent 80% of his work-day one-upping people left and right. He always had time for a 1-up story, never had time to do any of the work I needed him to do, or anyone needed him to do for that matter... He wasted so much of everyone's time, not only with stupid story telling, but also because we'd have to cover for his stupid ass not finishing his tasks. I'd like to point out that I said I USED to work with the guy. The guy *finally* got fired last week (for a plethora of work-related reasons, but nonetheless, he got canned). I really like Karma. Yay Karma!
One uppers are frickin annoying.... How about that guy that just goes up behind you and just starts staring at your computer screen and reads what ever you're doing.
you know what's worse than the one upper? the one upper who actually has the goods to back up what he's saying.
I hate that guy who thinks he's a fashion guru. Saying ***** like that shirt is gay. F*^K you and your opinion of what other guys wear
That's pretty hilarious especially the frustrated girl's reaction. You should incorporate it into your bit or maybe sell it to Mencia for a few thousand.
I have a friend like that, but it doesn't bother me too much. Maybe he's a mild case or maybe it's easier with a friend, because other guys like that have annoyed me. But, I just let my friend share his story and pretend like I believe him. I know he is accomplished in many ways, so he doesn't need to make stuff up, but whatever floats his boat.
