Personality Traits You Hate

Everyone has a few - personality traits that just grate on your freaking nerves. I thought about this today when I was at my local coffee shop and ran into a lady I know who was completely in my face the whole time she was talking to me, and also she was talking very loudly.

I think it was more the talking loudly that bothered me than the fact that she was all up in my personal space. It annoys me to no end when a person acts as if they're on stage giving a performance for the entire store/restaurant/office.

Also, I really hate it when people won't make eye contact or seem to "cower" when they talk to you.

What personality traits get on your nerves?

Originally Posted by AliceNWondrland

Also, I really hate it when people won't make eye contact or seem to "cower" when they talk to you.

We can't really help it. Sometimes eye contacts are just uncomfortable for some people.

I hate it when people can't keep their fucking distances with me. This is MY breathing space, this is YOUR breathing space and THIS is the fucking demilitarized zone between us, thank you.

It gets on my nerves when those people walk so close to me that I feel they're trying to crush me against the nearest wall. Or when they have to speak RIGHT UNDER MY NOSE, because clearly I couldn't hear them from a couple feet away. Keep your bad breath to yourself, please. I feel really uncomfortable when someone invades the little personal space I need.

I hate it when I go to shake a guy's hand and he gives you "the fish." When their hands are all clammy and they give you the most dead handshake ever. I wanna know they're alive on the other hand. However, it is annoying when you get some punk who tries to give you the death grip and act all tough. I usually get this from guys who are about 19 for some reason.

I'm not sure if it's a trait, but for people having a tendancy to bump in and invade your space when you're talking with your friends... Although I do it myself sometimes, but it's ridiculous when the person CLEARLY knows that they're not wanted in the conversation, yet they continue to stand there acting as if there were there since you started talking. It pisses me off whenever people do that. I just move away and drift to another conversation if I know i'm not wanted. <_<

I loathe people who think they are better than others in some way ... Especially if it's for superficial reasons.

Which brings up another trait I hate: Superficiality.

I hate it when I'm on public transporation and just because I'm little people think they can hog part of my fucking chair too. Just because your fat ass can't fill the chair doesn't mean you have to invade my space too, let your rolls of jello hang off the other side of the bench douche. I guess it's the personality trait of being a selfish ass. What ever happened to courtesy?

Originally Posted by MetheGelfling

I hate it when I go to shake a guy's hand and he gives you "the fish." When their hands are all clammy and they give you the most dead handshake ever. I wanna know they're alive on the other hand. However, it is annoying when you get some punk who tries to give you the death grip and act all tough. I usually get this from guys who are about 19 for some reason.

A firm handshake is acting tough? Hell, I gauge a fellow on the way he carries himself, the way he works, and also how he shakes a hand. It's a southern thing, in my opinion. A firm handshake shows character. Handshakes are strange customs to many people, oddly enough.

I hate folks who can't enjoy humor. I'm a fan of dry humor, and it bothers me when I tell a few one-liners and the person only looks at me strangely. Or they don't respond at all.

Also, I tend to hold doors for anyone who's directly behind me. Guy or girl. Chivalry isn't dead with me, but that doesn't mean that I shouldn't hold doors for other guys. Well, lots of girls don't even notice I'm there or that I was holding the doorway open. In fact, one time I got some raging feminist who attacked me about men treating women inferiorly, just because I held a door open >_> Oh. And I held it open for some *guy* who was right behind me, and her immediately behind him. But maybe this is another issue.

You know what annoys me? People constantly complaining about other people. You suck a lot too, you know.

Lil' high school boys (w00t! high school is over!) who think they are "gangster" or "connected". Goddamn they are SO F'N ANNOYING...:

Gangsta Boi: Hey WTF you looking at me for? Staring at my face?
Me: I'm just staring in that direction (looking at your freakish hair)
Gangsta Boi: Nah man you want to start me or something!
Me: You idiot, I can't look that direction? (I wasn't looking at your face, idiot)
Gangsta Boi: Oh you think you're so good now?
Me: *sigh*

Originally Posted by MetheGelfling

However, it is annoying when you get some punk who tries to give you the death grip and act all tough. I usually get this from guys who are about 19 for some reason.

Oh my god! I get this all the time too! Don't you usually get a downstare with this as well? I usually get it from that age range too, so I'm starting to think that this is less of a coincidence and more of a fucking strange pattern... :eyebrow:

Originally Posted by Gechmir

A firm handshake is acting tough? Hell, I gauge a fellow on the way he carries himself, the way he works, and also how he shakes a hand. It's a southern thing, in my opinion. A firm handshake shows character. Handshakes are strange customs to many people, oddly enough.

Yeah, I do agree with you. A FIRM handshake is a good character trait. I think what Methe was referring to though, was when you get someone who uses far more force than is required to shake one's hand.

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Also, I tend to hold doors for anyone who's directly behind me. Guy or girl.

HAHA! I hate that shit too! Most of the time I get a courteous "thank you", but there have been times when guys I hold a door open for just give me this horrified look on their face like I tried to jump their bones wearing only a zippered leather mask and holding a 12" black rubber cock in one hand...

A handshake that makes your hand ache like hell is a firm one in my book =p Common courtesy around here is to squeeze the other person's hand rather hard when shaking. My definition of firm differs I'm afraid ^__^;

Originally Posted by ramoth

You know what annoys me? People constantly complaining about other people. You suck a lot too, you know.

Well, this thread isn't about personality traits you love, ramroth, although I could just as easily make one of those. Want me to?

Don't act like there's nothing that bothers you about people. That's just not realistic.

Oh, and whoever said that about holding doors - I don't get it. What's wrong with holding a door open for someone - male or female? That's just common courtesy.

Originally Posted by Devo

I hate it when I'm on public transporation and just because I'm little people think they can hog part of my fucking chair too. Just because your fat ass can't fill the chair doesn't mean you have to invade my space too, let your rolls of jellow hang off the other side of the bench douche. I guess it's the personality trait of being a selfish ass. What ever happened to courtesy?

EEEEEEIIIIIMEEEEEEEEN.

Alice --
We're both siding with your opinion on the matter =p I've gotten strange looks/comments from some women and confused ones from a guy on occasion. Someone holds it for me? I tip my cap and say "appreciate it."

Originally Posted by Gechmir

A handshake that makes your hand ache like hell is a firm one in my book =p Common courtesy around here is to squeeze the other person's hand rather hard when shaking. My definition of firm differs I'm afraid ^__^;

True enough. I think it has a lot to do with individual strength too. I know a lot of people who will hurt your hand with a handshake and not know they're doing so. Hey, if that's your handshake and it was firm and sincere in your book then it becomes so for me as well.

What Methe and myself refer to is the people who do it simply to act tough. I don't know how to explain it, but usually the situation lends all the signals for me to know... "OK, this boy wants to act tough. But if he gets out of hand down the line, he's gonna get taken down by a stray fist."

You know, it's ten times worse when guys do that handshake thing to girls. I understand it's some sort of manly ritual, this squeezing the blood out of each other's hands...but please don't do it to us women. Our hands are smaller and it really hurts. =/

Originally Posted by AliceNWondrland

...but please don't do it to us women. Our hands are smaller and it really hurts. =/

You've never shaken my mom's hands... She can STILL crush my hand like she was making tortilla mix out of it...

Well, most girls don't like shaking hands as it is =p I'm gentle with old-timers (if they look frail) and womens as far as handshakes go.