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Post by Kpatch on Feb 6, 2016 14:41:14 GMT -5
Have you ever met anyone in your real life who behaved like a soap opera character?
I have. I used to work with a woman who was extremely competitive with me and she managed to say exactly what she knew would get under my skin. She was mean and twisted my words.
One time, when I lost weight, she told me that people were coming to her and asking if I had cancer because I looked sickly. Nice, right?
Your turn.
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Post by heroicmuse on Feb 6, 2016 15:07:02 GMT -5
Sadly I have had my share of people in my life who I think moved here from Salem.
My grandma was one of them. I loved her but she had some problems... She said one thing to your face and another behind her back, and she had a sister she disowned because of jealousy. After her parents died she claimed her sister was stealing from them and took her to court. No one in my family agreed with her attitude and actions but everyone was deathly afraid she would disown them too so they went along with casting out her sister. Said grandmother also was very much into physical appearance and felt a need to tell me for my own good how I would never be successful because I was overweight, unkempt etc. She also advised my mom to sneak into my room and throw away clothes my grandma didn't approve of while I wasn't home (my mom did not do that lol)
I once had a job where there was a lot of turnover and we got a new boss who was power hungry. She was also jealous that I was as good on the computer as her. She claimed I lacked skills and sent me to a training where the trainer said she didn't know why I was there because I already knew everything on the agenda. The next day, I was fired for "not being able to get up to speed even with training." I was not sorry to leave that job, though it was at a newspaper and one of the editors was about to let me cover a story and move me to that department, and I lost the opportunity because of this.
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Post by Kpatch on Feb 6, 2016 15:57:52 GMT -5
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Post by wendylou on Feb 6, 2016 16:51:09 GMT -5
I don't know about someone in a soap opera but I currently work with someone who seems to want to be in a soap opera. She makes everything into a big drama, is constantly having crises and health issues. She walks about sighing all the time and stomping her feet when she's mad or stressed. Worst of all, she is very manipulative, good at getting info out of people and then using it as leverage. She loves to stir the pot and sucks up to the bosses like you wouldn't believe. I have despised her pretty much from the time she started. And yes, I have felt like she has thrown me (and everyone else) under the bus many times. She wants to be the #1 paralegal at our office and is only happy when she is treated that way, i.e. she pouts when any of the rest of us get recognition or even taken out to lunch, etc. if she doesn't get the same. It's very frustrating to be around as I prefer my drama on TV rather than in real life. I try to avoid her but it's impossible to do all of the time. She was on the verge of being fired at one point b/c of all her pot-stirring but then that boss left and she became best buddies with the new one (while bad-mouthing her to everyone else).
Oh - and the funny thing is, I'm pretty sure she watches Days as well.
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Post by DancingDays on Feb 6, 2016 17:11:38 GMT -5
Working in a restaurant is equivalent to living in a soap opera. Who's sleeping with who. Who's power hungry. Who's ass do you need to kiss to go home early and/or get the best tables.
It was fantastic. That drama gave me LIFE!
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Post by kathyj on Feb 6, 2016 17:47:10 GMT -5
I worked with and was close friends with a young man who embellished the details of his life. He told us his mother was an opera singer, he had two sisters - one lived in Europe and so on. I had suspicions that not all of his stories were true but he was a kind, fun person. I always enjoyed his company and we spent quite a bit of time together. I went to a party at his house and was talking to his sister when he came over and told her not to listen to what I had to say about him because I didn't know him well.
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Post by Minako98 on Feb 7, 2016 9:31:51 GMT -5
I don't work with anyone like that, however, I am related to one. My older sister always has to be the center of attention. She's been married 6 times. She even married someone so they could get their green card.
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Post by mikey on Feb 7, 2016 23:48:22 GMT -5
My first boss out of college was such a soap opera character. She would pop in on me at random times and reveal details about her life -- like that she had been married five times (two of them to the same man!), or that she'd been kicked out of the Jehovah's Witness community where she lived with one of the husbands, or how she'd been institutionalized against her will for a short while. She also tried to set up her 32-year-old son with the 16-year-old who cleaned her house once a week, which freaked me out!
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Post by doolfan4life on Feb 11, 2016 21:51:51 GMT -5
One of my oldest friends quite a few years ago got involved with a girl I use to work with back in the day
I always thought she was a drama queen but I didn't know how bad until she dumped him for someone else
Cheated on someone else with her friend who had a girlfriend
Realized she was pregnant and didn't want to be alone so ran back to my friend who was very much still in love with her
Anyways he not only was fooled into thinking he was the baby daddy but his whole family threw her a big baby shower and bought her everything from big to small
My friend bought a house for them and a car for her and once she had everything she needed she left a copy of the paternity test with a note and then trashed him on social media and made him look like a fool
The whole time
This went on she even told him he wasn't allowed to remain friends with me and he's like a brother
his mom said it's cuz I always knew and I asked too many questions about the due dates and all
Even when the baby was born I thought it looked a little like the actual father whom o had met at the salon time and again
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Post by Kpatch on Feb 11, 2016 22:08:03 GMT -5
OMG doolfan4life. That's insane. Your friend is so much better off without her. |
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Post by doolfan4life on Feb 11, 2016 22:37:06 GMT -5
Yea he got his happy ending anyways
He met a great girl got married etc
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Post by sevenna92 on Feb 14, 2016 16:34:21 GMT -5
Well, I can recall only one or two things that would come close to being in a soap opera or something like that.
I found out a little over a year ago that my step-grandmother was once married to my step-maternal uncle and she and my grandfather actually met at my grandmother's funeral.
Then sometime after my step-grandmother's marriage fell apart, my grandfather started coming around and hanging out with her. At some point they fell in love and got married, to the displeasure of my aunt and uncle. They've never warmed up to her and my daddy's the only one who ever liked her.
Then after my grandfather passed away, my step-grandmother fell ill with a brain tumor and was hospitalized. She eventually died almost a year after my grandfather.
Strangely enough my grandfather had a will and my daddy & his siblings got left out. The house was left to his stepdaughter and most of his possessions were sold. I'm not sure what exactly happened but I feel like somebody in that family may have been manipulating my grandfather while he wasn't in a lucid state of mind. I'm not actually accusing anybody but it's pretty suspicious.
Another thing has to do with my biological maternal grandmother. For years I've always wondered why she never came over to America to visit me. Then one day while we drove over to visit because she was in town, my daddy explained everything.
Apparently my grandmother's husband abandoned her and she was left to raise her kids alone. I surmise that caused her to become jealous and bitter. She had a tumultuous relationship with my mother and she hated my daddy because he came from another culture.
When my parents married she felt like she lost a daughter. At one point when my mother was dying in the hospital after she had me she wanted to have a Christmas party.
Then when my mother passed she blamed my daddy for her death. I think my mother was so afraid of her that she made my daddy promise her that she'll never leave me alone with her in fear that she'll kidnap me and take me out of the States and never allow me back home.
She's controlling and selfish and I want nothing to do with her or her family. As far as I'm concerned, they don't exist. It breaks my heart because I hate doing this to the only living link I have left from my mother but I feel it's best for me and my family. She's probably close to a Sami Brady type or a Kate Roberts type as you can measure.
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Post by melly on Feb 14, 2016 22:53:36 GMT -5
My exhusband. I'm just gonna leave that here and walk away...
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Post by UhSir on Feb 15, 2016 19:56:33 GMT -5
Working in a restaurant is equivalent to living in a soap opera. Who's sleeping with who. Who's power hungry. Who's ass do you need to kiss to go home early and/or get the best tables. It was fantastic. That drama gave me LIFE! My favorite jobs were at restaurants! I worked at Denny's and a couple other similar places, waiting table or cooking. Great memories. Kind of love/hate feelings. Just like watching Days.  |
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