Drama Queens

[justaGUYnamedROB]

My ex was one of these.


There is no such thing as a small, manageable problem with these people: everything is a permanently life-altering major catastrophe.




Me: How was your day?

Her: Well lemme tell ya, it wasn't pretty. First, I woke up this morning and stubbed my toe on my bedpost, and it's killing me. I'm pretty sure I'm gonna need to have reconstructive surgery.

Then today at work, my boss announced that the store is going to start carrying a new model of cell phone and gave me only three days to study up on all of its features so I can be prepared to start selling. As if having to know all about four different cell phones already wasn't enough, now I have to know five. This job is killing me.

Then on my way home from work tonight, I went through the drive-thru at McDonalds'. I ordered a Big Mac and told them repeatedly, NO pickles on my burger. Well when I took my first bite out of my sandwich, guess what I tasted? PICKLES! Do you realize that I'm allergic to pickles? Do you realize that it's a miracle that I only bit into a very small piece of one, otherwise you could be talking to a dead woman right now? Do you? Huh? Huh? Life is killing me.

So anyway, how was your day?

Me: ......


Have any guys here ever dated a Drama Queen?

Do any girls here have a friend who's one?

What do you think causes this type've behavior?

 

[mina]

I had a 6 year old drama queen in my class this year. And yesterday was particularily drama filled. Yesterday she did a cartwheel in the room , after i said not to, and didn't land quite right. So you would have thought her leg fell off- tears and massive gasping weeping ensued. Before you think i'm a horrible and cruel unfeeling teacher, she was not hurt. She actually came down and then looked to make sure people were watching before the tears started. i dont think she gets too much attention at home and the attention she does get is when she's being dramaic and babyed, so it's a learned thing.

 

[Uncle Goose]

Yep, I had one, it didn't last long.

 

[Thomas1984]

My ex was one of these.


There is no such thing as a small, manageable problem with these people: everything is a permanently life-altering major catastrophe.




Me: How was your day?

Her: Well lemme tell ya, it wasn't pretty. First, I woke up this morning and stubbed my toe on my bedpost, and it's killing me. I'm pretty sure I'm gonna need to have reconstructive surgery.

Then today at work, my boss announced that the store is going to start carrying a new model of cell phone and gave me only three days to study up on all of its features so I can be prepared to start selling. As if having to know all about four different cell phones already wasn't enough, now I have to know five. This job is killing me.

Then on my way home from work tonight, I went through the drive-thru at McDonalds'. I ordered a Big Mac and told them repeatedly, NO pickles on my burger. Well when I took my first bite out of my sandwich, guess what I tasted? PICKLES! Do you realize that I'm allergic to pickles? Do you realize that it's a miracle that I only bit into a very small piece of one, otherwise you could be talking to a dead woman right now? Do you? Huh? Huh? Life is killing me.

So anyway, how was your day?

Me: ...... Well, the good news is, I'm single. The bad news is, I strangled you.


Have any guys here ever dated a Drama Queen?

Do any girls here have a friend who's one?

What do you think causes this type've behavior?

Ahem.

I used to work with a group of Drama Queens, and in fact, there's a Drama King at my current workplace, but he has good days and bad days, it's not constant.

Anyway, these girls, they were about my age or a bit younger (early 20's to late teens), and I went to a BBQ because one of them was leaving Uni to go back to Ireland. One of the DQ's turned up late, and probably had something like a 50/50 Blood-Alcohol ratio; I think her BF was embaressed, I couldn't tell; she found everything highly amusing. Towards the end of the evening there was some female-doggy-ness (if you get me) about something insignificant, and that resulted in tantrums and tears.

I swear, it was like being back at school.

I have no time Drama Queens, only short words that leave no room for misinterpretation. I don't always vocalise them though.

 

[GuacaMolly]

I think that Drama Queens belong to the group of people that for some reason either think that they don’t get enough attention or are convinced that they need excessive amounts of it to feel validated, whether it’s good or bad.

Some more examples:

-People who talk incessantly about themselves, their interests, their pursuits, hardly let you get in a word edgewise and then badger you as to why you don’t always answer their calls.

-The whiners, complainers, downers. I’m sad, my life sucks, no one’s ever had it as hard as I do, no one loves me no one cares!!

-Children who act out just to get attention; even if it is negative.


I think it can probably come from a variety of sources, but one thing I’ve noticed about Drama Queens is that a lot of the time they seem to do it as a smoke screen. Oh no! Don’t look at the real me, uhm....uhm....(insert colorful, loud, obnoxious behavior here).

 

[mina]

i don't think it's just a "queen" issue either. There are plenty of drama kings out there too.

 

[Wren]

i don't think it's just a "queen" issue either. There are plenty of drama kings out there too.

I agree. There was a major drama king at the last bank I worked at.

 

[ido]

I have a friend who is a drama queen. She's in college and she's had problems with every roommate she's had so far. She and her boyfriend are always at odds with each other - yet she seems more content to complain about him than to break up with him. She's always got some sort of crisis (or sometimes more than one) going on in her life.

I love her to death, but I've told her I am not interested in hearing about her drama. When she gets off on a tangent, I get really quiet and she'll stop and look at me and say, "I know, but..." and I just laugh at her.

 

[justaGUYnamedROB]

Before you think i'm a horrible and cruel unfeeling teacher, she was not hurt.

See, I echo your sentiments in bold as well, and that was always the real dilemma for me. It's like, how do you tell somebody that their problems really aren't that big a deal, without coming across as cold, calloused, and insensitive?

 

[mina]

i told my little girl student to stop crying after i looked at her knee, gave her a hug and sent her with a friend to the bathroom to wipe off her face. I treated her with kindness but i wasn't about to let her go on and on with that and think that behavior was ok. i've also tried to give her attention throughout the year, when she was just being herself and not having a crisis about little things. With adults , i'm not that patient. I usually just don't give them attention when they start talking about whatever is wrong with them, I try to refocus the conversation. There's a girl i know that is full of drama and EVERYTHING is about her and her comfort. I don't let her have my attention about the things she wants to complain about. It's usually easy to tell when someone REALLY needs to talk about an issue or they are just talking about it for dramatic purposes.

 

[Inkachu]

Eeesh..my last b/f was a serious drama king. He was the one who could talk for an hour about himself without taking a breath or even checking to see if I was still on the other end of the phone. Every day had something wrong in it. Every little ache and pain was mentioned. Am I the only person who doesn't talk about being sick or being hurt? Like right now, I have a cold. If someone asks me "Hey Vicky, how are ya?" do I say "Oh, I have a cold". No. I say "I'm OK, thanks."

Anyway...save the drama for yo mama! Men can be the biggest dang babies, and I do NOT put up with it.

Drama queens and drama kings - marry each other and spare the rest of us lol.

How do you DEAL with them? I'd ignore them. They only create drama for the reaction it gets. No reaction = no reason to be dramatic.

 

[Apollo Celestio]

I am truly blessed. I do not have deal with this. They wouldn't like me anyway..