Do you have someone like this in your life?

Ugh, I hate people like that!

Yes, we call them "The Topper." So annoying!

They sound perfectly miserable. I'd probably start calling (gently) them on it. They probably don't even know they are doing it, or maybe they do and need to be reminded.

Thankfully no (no-one that I'm close to anyway).

yes I do and it drives me crazy

My BIL (he's a piece of work in more ways than one ) He can one up about just about anything! I personally love how his/his families ailments always trump anyone elses.

This one is my favorite of the one ups. So I had a cyst in my wrist that was rather large as it had been there some time before I finally caved and had it out. Right after my sister finds the same type of cyst in a different place in her hand. She goes to same MD, has the same surgery, etc.

My BIL starts going on about her surgery one day and how much worse hers was compared to mine. Mind you I never said much about my surgery because it wasn't a big deal. I highly doubt that the surgeon got out my records, remembered my surgery and told BIL mine was easier;) So how exactly was hers so much more involved? Who knows, BIL says so and he knows it all.

As I said afterward to other who think he's obnoxious...how the heck would he know anything about the two surgeries? I had the surgery and I wouldn't be comfortable declaring one more involved than the other, i'm not a surgeon.

Yeah. I try to limit my exposure. They just suck the life out of you!

Lisa D.

Yes.  If I get sick, you can bet that she had the same thing only worse!  This went on until I was diagnosed with breast cancer...she couldn't top that.  Don't understand this mentality.

NOPE! deleted them out of my life many many years ago.... won't have people in my life like that. 

Yup. My co-irker.

I joke that if I came in and announced on the first Wednesday in November that one of my daughters was elected President of the United States, that she'd announce, "Well, MY daughter was just appointed Empress of the Universe!"

If someone brings in a scrumptious dessert to share, it's "I won first place at the county fair with my brownies in 1988!"

If someone gets an award at work, it's, "My husband won awards at work three years in a row!"

And out of nowhere, she'll announce, "I really am THE BEST at xyz task at work!" or "My son is the smartest boy who ever went to our high school. All the teachers say so. He's so smart and gifted the principal told me she's working extra hours to find him every scholarship possible." Or "My son has exercise-induced asthma, but he's so tough he can play basketball through an asthma attack. His coach says he's never seen such a determined athlete!"

She's really succeeded in ensuring that people avoid talking to her except when they  have no other option.  Because you just can't talk about anything you or anyone you know has accomplished in front of her because she HAS to one-up you. She just cannot let anyone "win" at anything. ANYTHING. And even if you don't bring anything up, she has to point out how she or someone in her family is the best at something at minimum five times a day (we know because we keep a running tally -- it's the only way we keep from smacking her upside the head). People actually stop talking when she walks in a room/office so as not to give her any ammunition -- we just look at her and say, "How can we help you?" 

It's not the person I'm being compared to that's the problem. It's our parents! For years, I have been compared to my brothers and always found lacking.

My own mother does this. I try to be amused but sometimes it's so darn tiring!

Co-irker. That's perfect!

I have a coworker just like this. It's really obnoxious. But I handle her better than my boss, who is similar but different.

The boss needs to be the first person to know something and the person that knows the most. She knows everything, and knows it first (of course). And her only two topics of discussion, typically, are food (she fancies herself a foodie) and the weather (she's a self-described "weather junkie"). But if anyone brings up something else, she becomes an expert. Or knows an expert. Or lives next to an expert. Or was abducted by expert aliens.

OK. I made that last one up.