She Jingles ALL the Time!

Call me petty...call me rude, crude, insensitive, pessimistic, unfestive and lacking in the holiday spirit...but lucky for me, I can't really hear you anyway so I'm still going to say it!!!!

I should preclude this by saying that I don't work directly with this person...and don't even come into contact with her everyday. Depending on when and if my colleagues and I are able take our morning/afternoon breaks, we sometimes bump into her there. I'm sure everyone either currently knows or has known at some point in their lives a person of this nature, shall we say? She is just this bubbly, happy, always chatty person. I don't think it's genuine. Ok, to be fair I should say I don't think it's genuine all the time. She has this nagging need to be 'friendly' with everyone in the office and there isn't one person she excludes in this endeavor. She wants to know what's happening in everyone's life and what their opinion is on everything under the sun...and has made it her personal mission to know little personal things about everyone she comes in contact with.

Now, I attribute this next piece to my female wiles...that and my love for psychology and the art of picking people to pieces...hehehe! She tends to like to monopolize the conversation and be the center of attention...and yet, it doesn't seem to be an ego-driven thing. That's why I sometimes struggle when questioning how genuine she is or is not. She rarely talks about herself and does often appear to have a genuine interest in what people have to say...but she doesn't like it when you aren't directing your reply to her or you stray and start talking with someone else at the table. Sadly, (for men everywhere) the men seem to eat it up and give her just what she is craving. As for me, I will do this on a good day, most days...not so much. Especially now since I have been observing this for well over a year now and am really trying to figure out just exactly what her game is already!

I apologize ahead of time because this is going to sound horrible...but I don't know what her appeal is, especially to men. Speaking strictly from a physical sense, she is not overly attractive or anywhere close to a size '0' (which is the new size 2, apparently)...so it can't be a physical thing. There is just something about her that I haven't been able to completely put my finger on, but it rings quite false in my head...and is not genuine. Almost like she's speaking through you and not to you...as though she is seeking some type of acceptance from people.

Ok, enough of the Freudian crap today. I suppose I'll have a HUGE hunk of coal in my damn stocking on Monday now.

Happy Holidays to all!