Comments | evilili: pet peeve #372

evilili

pet peeve #372

Oct 16, 2008 10:30

One of my many pet peeves is when people talk to me about people or situations with the assumption I know everything about what they are saying. For example, the person will come up to me and say "I went to Bobby's birthday party last night and Sally told me that Bertha's sister had a baby!". I don't know who the hell Bobby, Sally, Bertha or ( Read more... )

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clammm October 16 2008, 16:09:32 UTC

HA! I do the same thing! (the "oh that's nice" not the flapping arms bit.)

People are lame. It's just another bit of "memememememeeee, listen to my story, tell everyone you heard it from me, listen to me talk don't I have a lovely voice?" instead of actually thinking before one speaks.

Oh, and slapping them or putting a knife in their eye also shuts them up.

evilili October 17 2008, 13:33:12 UTC

ooh...putting a knife in their eye is a nice one...I might have to borrow that next time.

Who? tibbie_x October 16 2008, 16:20:38 UTC

That reminded me of my first class my first day of college, Honors social studies- The teacher started with "based on you previous knowledge of the ottoman empire..." I was 17 and very much in a "oh no" state of mind.

Re: Who? evilili October 17 2008, 13:34:19 UTC

any class that begins with "based on your prior knowledge of (fill in the blank)" is usually a bad sign...at least for me...I have no knowledge retention whatsoever.

hasty_smurf October 16 2008, 23:52:18 UTC

Ugh. My mother does this to me, with the entire cast of characters she works with. Why can't people just say "I'll spare you the details, but basically, this woman I work with was a bitch to me about some crap you don't care about."

evilili October 17 2008, 13:36:26 UTC

I know, that is the worst. Its just exhausting to have to hear about a buttload of people you don't know, nor care about. This is usually why I refrain from talking about alot of stuff because I just don't have the energy to give the background info. Apparently most people feel the same way, so they skip the background info but still feel the need to share about Billy's hernia operation.

By the way, what's up? When are we Wii-ing again?

curiousalice October 20 2008, 23:16:40 UTC

Who are these people?!?!?! Ha-ha. That's so bizarre!

evilili October 21 2008, 13:48:27 UTC

I know...its totally bizarre, and extremely annoying being as one of the main offenders is someone I see on a semi-daily basis.