WEIGHT LOSS AND DIET PILL EXPERT
A friend of mine just got a job at a local health food store, and now she believes that she is an absolute authority on health food and weight loss. Don't get me wrong she seems to be learning a lot about health products and weight loss products and stuff, but still it seems as if she is always spouting a bunch stuff at me. I decided that since she seems to know it all, I would go online and find a bunch of information about diet pills and then I would start saying the wrong things to her, but like they were fact, just to see if she really knew what I was talking about or if she was just faking it. I know this may sound really childish, but sometimes when people get to be real know it alls, it really pushes my buttons and makes me want to push back. In any case, I did some research about acai, and some other weight loss products, and then one night when we were out with a group of friends, I decided to test her knowledge so to speak. I guess that perhaps, she really did know some stuff, but when I began talking to her about a certain weight loss product that she wasn't familiar with she went along with me pretending like she knew it all. So I brought out the article that I had about the product and I said I must have confused it with the information I received about another product, and I must admit that she handled her error better than I would have expected. I was impressed, and then she asked me if she could have the article so that she could learn more about that particular all natural diet pill, so really what could I say, I had to give her the article.
I think from now on when someone starts acting like an expert on something I will be much more gracious about the situation. Some people really do know a lot about a certain subject and so it is important to listen to them, even when they do seem to be a bit full of themselves.