You might want to ask what a one upper is. It is that annoying person who always has to outdo everyone. The one upper is always better than you and everyone else. If you tell them you won a million dollars they will announce they won a trillion. If you tell them you have a brand new car, they will tell you they just bought 3 brand new cars. If you tell them you were just diagnosed with an incurable disease, low and behold they have the same disease only there disease is much worse. No matter what you say when talking to the one upper, you will be out done. If the one upper asks you how you are, they don’t really want to know, it is their opportunity to brag about themselves and how wonderful there life is.
I prefer to mess with this one upper person, purposely ask them how their family is and when they are mid-sentence I start talking really loud over them about (a bunch of nonsense) like how my “wonderful” dog fuzzy has single handedly found a cure for “whatchamacaulitis” and then walk away before they can respond. It really throws them for a loop, messes up there entire one up plan. The one upper can’t handle someone else talking, and they can never handle being out done themselves. It causes them to go into major meltdown mode, it actually causes them to go silent for a moment as their brain tries to compute what you have just said.
I work with a one upper, and this person is always interrupting conversations in the break room to brag about their spectacularly perfect existence. No matter who is talking they must interrupt, so I have made it my job from now on to outdo the one that can’t be out done.
My advice when dealing with a person such as this, mess with them, and then walk away.