Is there something you do purposefully to irritate people?

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Anonymous wrote:I throw late night parties with loud outdoor music to annoy my lib neighbors. I played Rush Limbaugh on my phone speaker while waking my dog until he died.

Your poor dog. I am glad he/she has gone on to glory.

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Anonymous wrote:I mispronounce things very slightly.

Barnes and Nobles. Costcos. That type of thing.

I do that. Also if I don't like you I will call you by the wrong name

Can I ask why? Just curious- if you know the correct name. Does it make you feel “quirky?”

DP but I sometimes intentionally forget people's names or call them the wrong name if they are very rude to me. I used to work in service and we'd do this to let demanding jerk customers know they weren't that important. If you can't be bothered to treat me respectfully, I can't be bothered to remember your name.

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Anonymous wrote:I live in a condo building with a lot of dogs (including mine). There is one set of owners who NEVER leash their dogs when they take them out into the small yard to pee. They take them down the stairs (no elevator) and into the yard unleashed, and it sucks because the rest of us have to be super vigilant with our own dogs since we never know when we're going to encounter their dogs unleashed. They will grab their collars and restrain them if they start to run or jump, but it would just be so much easier if they put them on leashes like they are supposed to. I honestly have no idea why don't don't.

Anyway, I and several other people in the building have started "forgetting" to latch the gates to the front or back areas of the building when we come and go. We know this annoys them because they've mentioned it at building meetings before and will complain that if the gate is open, their dogs will run out. Of course, if their dogs were leashed, this would not be an issue.

I know it's petty and I genuinely hope they just start leashing their dogs (and that they don't get out of the yard because I do worry they might get hurt). But it's been years of this and no matter how many times they are told to leash their dogs, they won't. We're all just fed up. So this tiny, petty rebellion is all we have.

If you are in DC, call animal control. All you need is their name and address. There is a person where I live who does this and no matter how many times she is told to leash her dog she simply will not. Our property manager has seen her and has reported her 3 times. I do believe she is getting fines now. Dogs shouldn't be punished for their ignorant owners' behavior. It would be awful if you left the gate open and one of the dogs escaped and was killed. Call animal control.

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Anonymous wrote:I annoy mansplainers/racists/homophobes and stuff. If they say something awful more than once I will put on the sweetest most innocent voice and ask them damning questions like “oh interesting what do you mean by that?”

You're just annoying yourself. Nine times out of ten the mansplainer is right.

10 times out of 10 the mansplainer is WRONG.

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I speak in other languages with friends/family in public and yes, we are talking about you.

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Anonymous wrote:No, not intentionally because I wouldn’t want to be mean for no reason at all.

Wait I was once at the playground with my daughter who was two.
I had my phone out and was taking photos along with also making a cute video.
Well a grumpy Karen walked by and I think she assumed I was my daughter’s nanny as my daughter is mixed race and she has dark hair/eyes while I do not.
Said Karen exclaimed loudly “Maybe if you focused on your charge as much as you focused on your damn phone your charge wouldn’t be all covered in chalk!”

Yes my daughter had been drawing on the sidewalk with colorful chalk and was in fact dirty!
I was so shocked I didn’t say a word!! 😮
However when I saw this same woman at the park a few wks later, I intentionally acted like I was video chatting someone as I blocked her right-of-way on the sidewalk for a hot second.

She then knowingly looked at me, smiled and apologized.

Pot meet kettle.

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Anonymous wrote:Even though it annoys her, I park in front of my neighbor’s house just because I don’t care for her and want to ruin her day. I can’t man spread (not a man) so I “car-spread”.

If parking in front of her house annoys her then she is nuts and it is well deserved!

I hope you don’t say this to anyone in real life. walking further to park in front of your neighbor’s house instead of your own to “ruin someone’s day” makes you look unstable and it’s scary that you don’t even recognize it.

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Anonymous wrote:I speak in other languages with friends/family in public and yes, we are talking about you.

Sabemos.

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I park in front of the neighbor's house.

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Anonymous wrote:I speak in other languages with friends/family in public and yes, we are talking about you.

Sabemos.

Yep everybody knows Spanish now. It's because it's easy to learn. I heard middle eastern and Asians speak it fluently with cooks and waiters. Unless some latins speak Mayan Ay Mara and Quechua. White people haven't made those languages IN yet but who knows.

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Anonymous wrote:I park in front of the neighbor's house.

I scratch and deflate your car parked in front of my house.

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Anonymous wrote:I annoy mansplainers/racists/homophobes and stuff. If they say something awful more than once I will put on the sweetest most innocent voice and ask them damning questions like “oh interesting what do you mean by that?”

You're just annoying yourself. Nine times out of ten the mansplainer is right.

You spelled zero wrong.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, in zero states is going the speed limit when everyone else is going over considered illegal. That is ridiculous.

This. Wonder what happened to the person who was running off to find “proof” that it was.

Crickets.

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Anonymous wrote:No! Why on earth would I purposefully annoy other people?!

+10000

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Anonymous wrote:I live in a condo building with a lot of dogs (including mine). There is one set of owners who NEVER leash their dogs when they take them out into the small yard to pee. They take them down the stairs (no elevator) and into the yard unleashed, and it sucks because the rest of us have to be super vigilant with our own dogs since we never know when we're going to encounter their dogs unleashed. They will grab their collars and restrain them if they start to run or jump, but it would just be so much easier if they put them on leashes like they are supposed to. I honestly have no idea why don't don't.

Anyway, I and several other people in the building have started "forgetting" to latch the gates to the front or back areas of the building when we come and go. We know this annoys them because they've mentioned it at building meetings before and will complain that if the gate is open, their dogs will run out. Of course, if their dogs were leashed, this would not be an issue.

I know it's petty and I genuinely hope they just start leashing their dogs (and that they don't get out of the yard because I do worry they might get hurt). But it's been years of this and no matter how many times they are told to leash their dogs, they won't. We're all just fed up. So this tiny, petty rebellion is all we have.

If you are in DC, call animal control. All you need is their name and address. There is a person where I live who does this and no matter how many times she is told to leash her dog she simply will not. Our property manager has seen her and has reported her 3 times. I do believe she is getting fines now. Dogs shouldn't be punished for their ignorant owners' behavior. It would be awful if you left the gate open and one of the dogs escaped and was killed. Call animal control.

The leash laws only apply to public spaces. So if the dog is on the condo's private property, animal control can't fine them for being unleashed. One exception could be if the dog was biting or aggressively barking at people walking by on the sidewalk -- there is a a DC provision about not keeping dogs on private property in a way that risks passersby being bitten or "menaced" by the dog. But that has nothing to do with whether the dog is leashed.

However, if the building has rules requiring leashes, that should be sufficient. There should be an enforcement mechanism built into the rules -- warnings, fines, etc. I'd start there.

But yeah, if the dogs run out into the street because the gate is unlatched, that's 100% on the dog owners. Gates get left open. Or someone could be coming or going through the gate when the dog is in the yard and he could dash out. If the owners care about their dogs, they should leash them.