My friend and I call them "one-uppers". Once I explain who they are I am sure you will be able to name a few in your own life. They are the people that are continually trying to be better than everyone else. They have done something more cool they have seen something better or they just plain have a better story than the one you just told. It gets old. Nobody likes to be trumped all the time, everyone wants to be in the spotlight for just a second every now and again. Why do one-uppers have to get the last word in. Right after they talk you just feel so defeated, just when you thought you really had a good story.
My belief is that one-uppers have over-active imaginations and most of the things they say are only partially true if at all. I think the thing that bugs me the most is that most of the time one-uppers have no idea that they are one-uppers. Someone who is a one-upper may read this and laugh, not knowing that they in fact are a one-upper. Something is wrong with people.
