Have you ever met someone who was so cheerful and perky that it was painful for you? I mean... hard to explain but they were just so happy and freakin' bubbly to the point it was obnoxious.

I didn't think I'd ever meet someone like this until a patient came in with a wife who was over-the-top perky. I can handle sunny and cheerful, but wow.

Yes. A kid from my school who was happy even when it didn't make sense. It was to the point that it seemed forced and disingenuous, and I sincerely think he'll snap someday.

Yup. I have. I also make it a point to piss in their cereal. I hate overly cheery people. There isn't a single thing to be that cheery about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pACePi441ds

My wife is the happiest person I know. She's so happy, it depresses me. Even more than I already am.

I have, though there's a difference between someone making it an object to always find the positives and someone who just does not seem to acknowledge anything but positives. I like the former; they're good for reality checks when things go bad sometimes. I've met the latter, who just always take my fake complaining, my neutral expression, and my joy of exaggeratedly ranting seriously and thus believe I'm a very negative person.

Unfortunately, yes I have.

Yes, they got so irritating I got physical one of the only times I ever have. (with strangers)

Yeah, I had always thought I was an excessively happy person until I met a few of them.

Yea, I've ran into a few grocery store and fast food joint employees who seemed just waaayy to happy for their own good. How can someone working a job like that pull that attitude off?

Then there was one time that I was around a .... good friend of mine and she was on the high end of her bi-polar, I was a little frightened actually. It was nice to see her in a good mood instead of gloomy, but wow, was she ever bouncy and perky.

Would you rather they were an [censored]?

Yes. They are fake.

Not the ones that I've known. I know two people who are cheerful nonstop no matter what. They are not fake, they sincerely have no pessimism in their body. They would do anything for anybody and it sadly is a flaw that people will exploit.

I'm overly grumpy so I stay away from cheery people, they irritate me.

Good Lord. *rolls eyes*

I don't think so. Only comfortably cheery people who happen to be annoying in a different way.

I...don't think I've ever actually met someone incessantly cheery to the point of obnoxiousness. I've met more then a few people who are so gloomy that I've considered giving them a gun so they could just off themselves, since all they ever do is complain about every single little freaking thing, every minute of the day. But I've never actually met the ones who sit on the opposite side of that fence.

I would rather encounter the really cheery people than the eternally depressing ones. At least when you are happy the cheery people are great. The eternally depressing people are just bad all the time.

I'm pretty much the same. I know a few people who I am seriously giving advice to once a week (at least, and that is not an exaggeration) because they always get to a point where they feel resolved about the issue they're having and then forget about it and feel depressed all over again. It's exhausting, haha.

Oh, I know how you feel. I dated one of those...for a year...

Hindsight is 20/20.

I agree. I don't meet too many of those kinds of people in real life, but when I go on the internet... I have to get prepared for a large dose of people wangsting about how crappy the world is, which get's old pretty darn quickly.

Genuinely happy and cheerful people don't bother me, but what do bother me is:

A. Those people who put on a polite face to make people think they're always sweet and nice.

B. Those store employees who put on that overly happy company man face for customers.

When I used to work at Target, I met a few people who'd do that. I HATE when people do that, it comes off very forced. When I deal with people period it's a more cold but very natural politeness. I'd rather be cold and polite with sincerity than warm and friendly with falseness.