Do you have people around you who are always negative?

There is one woman, I’ll call her Mavis, who is only an acquaintance, who never seems to have a day, or an experience, that is nuetral, or positive.

I am involved in some of the same regular social activities in which she is a participant. She is also “friends” with some of my real friends on Facebook, so I see her comments regularly on their posts, and they are mostly negative.

These same friends have told me that she is more of an aquaintance to them too, rather than being pals, and they agreed that her negativity was annoying, but we all spend time with her in bigger social groups due to our common interests.

She can be funny, and fun, and pleasant, but when I’m around her at any of these activities, we pretty much have to spend a lot of time with her almost willing her by osmosis, to be upbeat and positive, for at least 45 minutes before she stops with the negativity.

I was joking with one of my friends that I don’t mind her company, as long as someone else gets her for the first hour, when she’s still in her negative mode.

She went to Disneyland awhile back, and complained about the crowds, and the heat, but never mentioned having any fun.

She went to several live performances recently, one of which I was also in attendance. It’s like we went to two separate shows, one wonderful (the one I went to) and the one she went to, where the seat was uncomfortable, and she got stuck in traffic going home. No mention of the beautiful singing.

After another event in which we were both present, along with a bunch of other people, most of us went to grab a bite to eat at a diner afterward. I had a marvelous time catching up with my friends and eating strawberry waffles. She posted on a friend’s FB post the next day that she didn’t like her panckes, and her toe was throbbing, and she got stuck in traffic on the way home. She didn’t mention that she had purposely not left a tip. We covered it.

I’m not looking for advice on how to deal with this woman, she’s mostly just a minor annoyance.

I just wanted to know if any of you have a “Mavis” in your life, and how does that manifest itself?