[PavlovsCat]

> There are two sizes of problems -- mine, and yours

So if you drop a penny and I break my arm, you'd care more about the dropped penny, and when I say "ouch" you say "not now, can't you see I just dropped a penny"?

[rootusrootus]

You contrive an example but miss the fundamental truth. People will always focus more on their own problems than someone else's. I'm amused that this seems controversial. OP certainly doesn't care about the boss's problems. Which totally makes sense, except the boss, by virtue of his position, is not allowed the same privilege. A bit hipocratic but... Ok.

[coldtea]

Mel Brooks: "If I cut my finger, that's tragedy... Comedy is if you walk into an open sewer and die."

[paradoxparalax]

Bitterness is always less bitter in someone else's mouth, pain seems to be less painful too.