How do you deal with them?
I am an optimist (most of the time) but my best friend isn't. Sometimes I just don't know how to deal with her negativity.
We decided to go to the cinema on Tuesday to see the 1.45pm showing of The King's Speech. We arranged to met at the cinema at 1.30 and I arrived about 5 minutes before my friend. When she arrived she looked the line outside one of the four cinemas (about 50 people and about another 20 in line to buy tickets).
She said 'What movie are they going to see"
I said "I think they are here for The King's Speech".
She said "They can't be, TKS can't be that much a a crowd drawer".
I said "The next movie after TKS is Gulliver's Travels and that doesn't start to 2pm.
She said "They must be going to see that".
I said "I don't think so" and pointed out that no-one in the line looked to be under 40 and that if they were going to see Gulliver than there would be children in the line.
She looked at the line and said "I am not going in if there are that many people before us. We won't be able to get a good seat". I said that the cinema could hold about 150 so we would probably get a reasonable seat. She disagreed.
I suggested we buy some tickets for Thursday. She said "NO" because tickets would be about $3 dearer on Thursdays. I said that I would pay the difference for her. She found all sorts of reasons not to go on Thursday. However she phoned me later that day and said she would like to go on Thursday.
On Thursday we went and there was a similar crowd. My friend lost her temper and loudly said for all to hear "Why are all those people here, can't they go some place else".
I said that they were here for the same reason as us - to see the movie. She said "They could have seen it at some other time".
I tried to talk her into going in and seeing the movie. She said it would be too crowded. She moaned about people being Geoffrey Rush fans and I said it was more likely that the people lined up were people interested in the Royal Family rather than Geoffrey Rush fans. She continued to moan all the way over to the shopping center.
We have now made arrangements to go next Tuesday. We are going to arrive 30 minutes before the start to see how many people are waiting. I have decided that I am going in to see the movie with or without her. Is this what you would do with a friend like this?
I am an optimist (most of the time) but my best friend isn't. Sometimes I just don't know how to deal with her negativity.
We decided to go to the cinema on Tuesday to see the 1.45pm showing of The King's Speech. We arranged to met at the cinema at 1.30 and I arrived about 5 minutes before my friend. When she arrived she looked the line outside one of the four cinemas (about 50 people and about another 20 in line to buy tickets).
She said 'What movie are they going to see"
I said "I think they are here for The King's Speech".
She said "They can't be, TKS can't be that much a a crowd drawer".
I said "The next movie after TKS is Gulliver's Travels and that doesn't start to 2pm.
She said "They must be going to see that".
I said "I don't think so" and pointed out that no-one in the line looked to be under 40 and that if they were going to see Gulliver than there would be children in the line.
She looked at the line and said "I am not going in if there are that many people before us. We won't be able to get a good seat". I said that the cinema could hold about 150 so we would probably get a reasonable seat. She disagreed.
I suggested we buy some tickets for Thursday. She said "NO" because tickets would be about $3 dearer on Thursdays. I said that I would pay the difference for her. She found all sorts of reasons not to go on Thursday. However she phoned me later that day and said she would like to go on Thursday.
On Thursday we went and there was a similar crowd. My friend lost her temper and loudly said for all to hear "Why are all those people here, can't they go some place else".
I said that they were here for the same reason as us - to see the movie. She said "They could have seen it at some other time".
I tried to talk her into going in and seeing the movie. She said it would be too crowded. She moaned about people being Geoffrey Rush fans and I said it was more likely that the people lined up were people interested in the Royal Family rather than Geoffrey Rush fans. She continued to moan all the way over to the shopping center.
We have now made arrangements to go next Tuesday. We are going to arrive 30 minutes before the start to see how many people are waiting. I have decided that I am going in to see the movie with or without her. Is this what you would do with a friend like this?
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