Sometimes....it's just too hard to celebrate for people...

I was talking to a friend of mine recently and she has a co-worker that she can't stand.

She works in a small office and she spends a lot of time with this particular person.

The co-worker is a woman and she recently gave birth to her first baby and has been so excited by the new baby that it seems to dominate every single conversation. It is obviously something that she really loves and enjoys.

However, it is dominating her life to the point that it is impossible to carry on any form of other converstaion with her without her making it the most dominant aspect of the conversation.

My friend doesn't like her and it makes it even harder for him to pretend to care about the new kid.

It got worse the other day when the woman's new baby was sick and he didn't ask how the new baby was doing. The co-worker actually got offended that she didn't care about what was wrong with the baby.

I am not sure how my friend (he or she :-D) does it. The person is a good person overall and doesn't want to appear as a Negative Nancy, but he just has problems with showing too much interest in something and someone that he just doesn't really care about.

Tough... very tough...