Personal Quirks That Make You A "Bad" Person

[Allhallowsday]

Okay, I've read them all.  BELA gets the cigar for most disgusting, er, "baddest" behaviour (yeh, who hasn't done the one nostril blow..., but in public?  And is that down your jacket?)  

Ash, you cheap f*ck.    (I always take more napkins than I need... gotta keep 'em in the car for when I do the one-nostril-blow.)  

Who started about kids?  Well, kids are people, and as several posters commented, I have a mysanthropic streak, too.  However, I only can't stand being around BRATS.  My neighbor scolded her son, the one she calls the "demon child" in front of me, he danced around her, calling her names, threw himself on the ground screaming and kicking... ugh.  I quietly confided to her, "I can't take this," and walked away.  But what makes me a bad person is when I am around child performers, particularly child singers.  I cannot abide to watch or listen to children sing.  Exeunt stage left. 

[Killer Bees]

I guess it's official:  we're all angry, anti-social psychopaths.  No wonder I feel so at home here        

[CheezeFlixz]

Quirks that make me a BAD person ...

Hmmmm can't think of any, ok maybe there are a couple.

I'm intolerant.
I'm intolerant of stupidity.
I'm intolerant of slacker, moochers, deadbeats and the like.
I have ZERO time for excuses, I don't want to hear them, don't start.
And as shocking as it may seem, I'm outspoken and opinionated.
So if you have 25 items in the 20 item express checkout, I'll say something.

There might be more ... 

[ulthar]

I'm a man.
I tend to encounter a lot of women who seem to have a problem with that.

LOL.  Karma for that one.

[indianasmith]

The fact that I am smarter than 90% of the human race seems to irritate about 90% of the people I meet, for some reason.

[Mr. DS]

Ok back to the negativity.  On the flip side of kids, I absolutely hate certain old people.  I think there are two different types of old people in the world.  One, the cool happening old folk who are still living their lives on a decent pace.  To me they're cool.  Then there are the old folk who I think are waiting to die and are simply taking up space in the meantime.  These are the ones who are always in front of me in the supermarket taking their sweet old time holding a 10 minute conversation with the clerk.   They're also the ones I get stuck behind on the road. 

Oh have I mentioned I'm also immensely inpatient.

[odinn7]

It's a pet peeve of mine when retailers say "spend $200 and get this doovalackey for free!!!!" 

Sweet! Where can I get a doovalackey? I think I NEED one!

[Scott]

It's important to entertain yourself and others. Here are some more from my bag of supposedly annoying humor.

When ever someone drops something which can be anything from a dropping a pen or breaking something like a drinking glass. I will sharply and sometimes casually but not overly loud say "Telephone" as if the phone is ringing. Just try it and watch peoples reactions. There is something about peoples urgency to answer a telephone. This one is always lots of fun. This also works great when someone blows their car horn real loud and you have people in the car with you and you say "telephone" right after an irrate horn blast. The reaction is usually a bewildered pause and then laughter.

Another thing I like to do when someone is near and usually mentally preocuppied with something else is to start physically handing them things/objects by hand with a slight motion or quite verbal request until they have their arms full and they can't figure out what is going on. Suddenly they wake up and say "What in the world am I doing". Picture them standing there completely confused holding an array of things in their arms. It's always self indulgent entertainment.

After paying for my groceries at the store I like to ask the cashier directly for just one more question even though I have not asked any questions as of yet saying "I have just one more question. Do you know where I parked?". It's really unique to my new grocery store since we moved as we have two distant exits. I'll say  "I have just one more question. Which way did I park?" I always get a good gaffaw from my audience.

Sometimes I'll tell someone in the meat section of the grocery store who's looking to buy some meat. I wish they would put sound effects at each section of the department when you entered the area. When approaching the beef section the speaker would play a "moo, moo.....moooooooo" sound, chicken section would "cluck, cluck, cluck", and the pork section would "Oink........oink..oink", and the cash registar would have an exaggerated "Ka Ching".

This is why I am "bad" and this is why you should not hang out with me. 

Many are deprived of truely great humor and experiencing these tidbits of humor they are still deprived.

[Shadow]

Scott...er...I mean Conan, maybe you should film some of those grocery store escapades for Adventure Theater.

[Killer Bees]

It's a pet peeve of mine when retailers say "spend $200 and get this doovalackey for free!!!!" 

Sweet! Where can I get a doovalackey? I think I NEED one!

I have one that cost me $200 which I'm not using, so you can have it   

[BeyondTheGrave]

I have no shame. Like this one time I had to blow my nose really bad on the F train and had no tissues or napkins, so my friend had some salad and offered me half joking a piece of lettuce to blow my noise. And I tend to drink beer in the oddest place like the bus or the trains. Great way to have people not sit next to you.

I'm pretty anti-social myself. Takes awhile to warm up to someone and I always feel I'm in the way.

[Patient7]

I'm intolerant.
I'm intolerant of stupidity.
I'm intolerant of slacker, moochers, deadbeats and the like.
I have ZERO time for excuses, I don't want to hear them, don't start.
And as shocking as it may seem, I'm outspoken and opinionated.
So if you have 25 items in the 20 item express checkout, I'll say something.
There might be more ... 

I must agree with you.  There are many MANY stupid people that I am forced to interact with, seriously if you cannot cross multiply you should not be in high school.

[RCMerchant]

I have no shame. Like this one time I had to blow my nose really bad on the F train and had no tissues or napkins, so my friend had some salad and offered me half joking a piece of lettuce to blow my noise. And I tend to drink beer in the oddest place like the bus or the trains. Great way to have people not sit next to you.

I'm pretty anti-social myself. Takes awhile to warm up to someone and I always feel I'm in the way.

I would drink ANYWHERE. I could be in the waiting room of a hospital and I would pull out a half pint of whiskey and take a shot. I would drink on the street, in grocery stores,malls,movie theaters (especially movie theaters!) ...anywhere. I got wasted on a train from Kalamazoo to NYC once. You could had poured me out the door at once we hit Port Authority. I was quite a sight. I had real long stringy hair,a blue jean cut-off jacket with all sortsa weird stuff I had drawn on it with a black Sharpie,and a small boom box I had handcuffed to my wrist so I wouldn't lose it or get it snatched,playing Suicidal Tendiences as loud as it would go. Needless to say-I was targeted by the terminal security the second I got off the train. This was in about...oh...1989. I'm much more mature now. ( )

[AndyC]

I'm no good at small talk. Those polite little conversations people carry on entirely for the sake of having a conversation. I'm generally a quiet person. I say what I need to say, or join a conversation if I have something of interest to add. When I'm around people I know, and actually have something to say to, I'm talkative. If I'm buying groceries, I'm not.

"How are you today?"

"Good."

"That's some weather."

"Yes, it is."

And so on. Bring up a real topic and I can go on and on, but I can't just talk for the sake of talking. Not a personal stand or anything. I just can't do it.

And it really irks me when some extrovert will sense that I'm reluctant to talk and try to put me at ease and draw me out. That usually just seems forced and uncomfortable.

I can do genuine conversation, just not small talk. And I've been catching flak about it for years.

[RCMerchant]

I'm no good at small talk. Those polite little conversations people carry on entirely for the sake of having a conversation. I'm generally a quiet person. I say what I need to say, or join a conversation if I have something of interest to add. When I'm around people I know, and actually have something to say to, I'm talkative. If I'm buying groceries, I'm not.

"How are you today?"

"Good."

"That's some weather."

"Yes, it is."

And so on. Bring up a real topic and I can go on and on, but I can't just talk for the sake of talking. Not a personal stand or anything. I just can't do it.

And it really irks me when some extrovert will sense that I'm reluctant to talk and try to put me at ease and draw me out. That usually just seems forced and uncomfortable.

I can do genuine conversation, just not small talk. And I've been catching flak about it for years.

Meh. Uh-huh. Yup.

(just kidding...! )