There's always one.....

Whenever a transition occurs in your little social club you most likely wind up with new members.
This is fine and dandy as you get new friends and meet new people.
But sometimes you wind up with one...

One who really wants to be a part and so somehow finds out an inane tidbit about your group or their history and then constantly refers to it.

They'll bring up this anecdote every few sentences just to show that they know, that they should belong.

It gets really annoying, but surely, should you not be flattered that somebody is going to these lengths to be accepted? To dig through your discourse and find out this random piece of inanity? That you matter so much that they'd do this just to belong?

Ostensibly perhaps. You obviously matter to them and should be grateful.

But really?

Should you be happy that they keep drilling home this single point every 30 seconds in an effort to belong?

No.

Because if they really wanted to be in then they'd do so through their own merits, creating their own anecdotes.

And they wouldn't irritate you.