I have my moments, but I’m certainly not rude or bitchy to people for no reason. I’m very friendly to people I don’t know unless they piss me off for some reason. Even then, I think I hide my disdain fairly well.
To people I’m close to, like my husband or family, I’m just myself – not particularly friendly, but I’m real. I tell it like it is, but I’m not confrontational, nosy, or pushy. I’m very easily annoyed, and unfortunately my husband is the one usually “punished” for that. I’m working on it.
With co-workers, I find it’s best to keep non-work conversations to a minimum. I’m a legal assistant and all the other assistants in our office are female – women and I just don’t mesh well long-term. I find that most women I know are bitches – selfish, grudge-holding, immature, back-stabbing, condescending bitches. And I don’t have time for that shit, so I now keep to myself at work. I speak to people in the polite “good morning, how are you?” kind of way, and I have to talk to my attorneys regularly, but other than that, those people are not my friends and I don’t act like they are.
Also, overly friendly people are annoying. It’s just so damn fake.