Smugness

[Anonymous]

I'm smug about being a regular blood donor, which partially defeats the good karma of doing something selfless. But at least they get my blood whether I'm petty or not.

[Anonymous]

I have nothing to be smug about.

Oh wait, I'm smug about my encyclopedic knowledge of 80s New Wave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DH and I have a really great and easy marriage.

DS is well behaved, kind, and smart.

I definitely try not to be smug and I think I do a decent job keeping my smugness internal.

The type of smugness that bothers me? Probably the cleaning eating "oh I could never eat something processed" smug or the "don't you know how bad travel is on the environment?" Type of smug.

+1. Just about anything out of the mouths of UMC liberals.

I'm a UMC liberal who eats plenty of processed food and loves to travel. So your dig makes no sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I try not to be smug about having a kid who excels academically in an office the charts way, and the fact that DH and I are set up for early retirement in our early 30s. But I know I don't succeed.

The smugness comes from the belief that we made these things happen. DD was struggling at school I usually so we made some early investments in her academics and they really paid off. And DH and I are super savers who eschewed a lot of spending in order to squirrel money away and that paid off big time with several major investments so we are able to bump up our timeline. I am just super proud of us for this stuff and I struggle with being graceful about it. I could stand to be humbled at the moment.

Your post only makes sense if you had kids while you were in college or your “early retirement” is due to inheritance or your child is still lower elementary (in which case God help you when reality slaps you). Likely all of the above - good luck.

[Anonymous]

I guess I'm pretty smug about my job. I'm kind of underemployed and I'm excellent at what I do (medical field.) A new manager accused me of making a mistake once and I said something like "That's impossible. I don't make mistakes." Sure enough the software proved it wasn't me.
I have literally nothing else to be smug about, I'm very unimpressive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I try not to be smug about having a kid who excels academically in an office the charts way, and the fact that DH and I are set up for early retirement in our early 30s. But I know I don't succeed.

The smugness comes from the belief that we made these things happen. DD was struggling at school I usually so we made some early investments in her academics and they really paid off. And DH and I are super savers who eschewed a lot of spending in order to squirrel money away and that paid off big time with several major investments so we are able to bump up our timeline. I am just super proud of us for this stuff and I struggle with being graceful about it. I could stand to be humbled at the moment.

Your post only makes sense if you had kids while you were in college or your “early retirement” is due to inheritance or your child is still lower elementary (in which case God help you when reality slaps you). Likely all of the above - good luck.

Yeah the ages didn't add up for me either. Like, is PP 30 and her child is 6?

[Anonymous]

My kid was off-the-charts at 6 too, now he's 9 and average!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I try not to be smug about having a kid who excels academically in an office the charts way, and the fact that DH and I are set up for early retirement in our early 30s. But I know I don't succeed.

The smugness comes from the belief that we made these things happen. DD was struggling at school I usually so we made some early investments in her academics and they really paid off. And DH and I are super savers who eschewed a lot of spending in order to squirrel money away and that paid off big time with several major investments so we are able to bump up our timeline. I am just super proud of us for this stuff and I struggle with being graceful about it. I could stand to be humbled at the moment.

Your post only makes sense if you had kids while you were in college or your “early retirement” is due to inheritance or your child is still lower elementary (in which case God help you when reality slaps you). Likely all of the above - good luck.

PP here and that should say early 50s! Typo. I am currently mid-40s and still working.

I am not smug about my ability to type on a phone as it's pretty crap.

[Anonymous]

I'm smug about walking etiquette. Even in stores. If you're driving your grocery on the left, I will wait until you go around me because I'm on the right, which is the only right way. Don't swim upstream.

[Anonymous]

I’m smug about my travels

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m smug about my travels

Same. I've toned it down as I've gotten older because I know how obnoxious it is. But it still gets out and then I feel bad about it later.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My children are well-behaved and good students. DH and I met at a well-known, good college.

You should remember that life turns in a dime and smugness is a very bad quality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My children are well-behaved and good students. DH and I met at a well-known, good college.

You should remember that life turns in a dime and smugness is a very bad quality.

Why are you singling out one poster on an entire thread about smugness.