Is there something you do purposefully to irritate people?

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Anonymous wrote:I won’t flush in a public restroom if I am the only one in there. Sometimes I’ll even flick sink water all over the seats and flush lever.

Why don't you just link the seat? That will really get them!

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Anonymous wrote:I act like I think every bird I see is a hawk. I’ll tell my husband “I’ve never seen that many hawks in one tree before.” They’re clearly crows or vultures. He’s so patient but I do wonder when he will figure out it’s an act.

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

+10000

Writing anything other than "+1" when you agree is annoying.

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We have dual light switches controlling the same lights from two separate entrances to a room- so up or down is not necessarily on or off if the other switches have been used. DH still hasn’t quite figured out how the switches work and gets confused if he sees the switches down, so he’ll walk across the dark room just to get to the set of switches that have been left up. DD noticed this and intentionally changes the switch positions just to mess with him. She’s in elementary school. I haven’t corrected her because it’s relatively harmless and definitely a little funny to hear him flicking the switches up and down in confusion.

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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?”

Mansplainers are no doubt annoying, but not sure they deserve to be lumped into the same category with racists and homophobes.

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I park really close to large expensive cars just to annoy their douchey drivers. I especially do this to new looking Suburban/Yukon/Navigator type cars because I find them so obnoxious.

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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 dog is on private property, in effect a residence. The owner may be violating condo rules, but Animal Control won't get involved.

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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

It's petty but when people are consistently rude to me, I "forget" their names a lot more. I used to work at a law firm as a research librarian. I have a law degree as well as a masters in library sciences, and my job was to help firm attorney's with research as well as to train new associates on research techniques and our resources. Most of the associates I trained were great, had some humility about the fact that they were brand new and had a lot to learn, and were respectful of the fact that I was a very experience professional who was there to show them the ropes.

But there were a few little pissants who believed that because I was "support staff" and they were billing attorneys, they could treat me like dirt. I simply never learned any of their names. The best would be when I would do this in front of a department head or other firm leadership who these jerks of course wanted to impress. I had great relationships with all of those folks because I'd been at the firm for many years and done a lot of work for them -- the more senior the attorney, the more likely they were to lean on research staff for support, so we tended to have the closest working relationships with people in leadership, who needed more help because they were busier and had more power to delegate.

None of rude associates ever made partner. I don't think that was my doing, of course. But I think one reason they never did is that they came in thinking they were more important than all the people who made up the firm infrastructure and made it possible for us to do high level work for clients willing to pay a very high rate. They didn't get that, they thought it was all about hierarchies and they wanted someone to look down on.

You could have saved yourself a lot of time and energy by just writing, "I have a massive insecurity complex."

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I don't really do this with intention to irritate people, but when I'm driving I am pretty diligent about slowing down before I make a right turn because I don't like feeling like I'm flying around the corner or out of control. Sometimes I can tell the person behind me is annoyed by my slowdown (especially if there's not a "go around" option, and I kind of take pleasure it in the moment.

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Do you need specific help with a situation? This is my forte

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Anonymous wrote:We have dual light switches controlling the same lights from two separate entrances to a room- so up or down is not necessarily on or off if the other switches have been used. DH still hasn’t quite figured out how the switches work and gets confused if he sees the switches down, so he’ll walk across the dark room just to get to the set of switches that have been left up. DD noticed this and intentionally changes the switch positions just to mess with him. She’s in elementary school. I haven’t corrected her because it’s relatively harmless and definitely a little funny to hear him flicking the switches up and down in confusion.

Probably the CEO of a Fortune 500. Sigh.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you need specific help with a situation? This is my forte

It's fort.

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No, actually I try to be pleasant but I seem to irritate people nonetheless

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Anonymous wrote:We have dual light switches controlling the same lights from two separate entrances to a room- so up or down is not necessarily on or off if the other switches have been used. DH still hasn’t quite figured out how the switches work and gets confused if he sees the switches down, so he’ll walk across the dark room just to get to the set of switches that have been left up. DD noticed this and intentionally changes the switch positions just to mess with him. She’s in elementary school. I haven’t corrected her because it’s relatively harmless and definitely a little funny to hear him flicking the switches up and down in confusion.

That's hilarious. We have that all over the house and my mild OCD forces me to walk across rooms to use just the one that I like in a certain position!

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Anonymous wrote:I don't really do this with intention to irritate people, but when I'm driving I am pretty diligent about slowing down before I make a right turn because I don't like feeling like I'm flying around the corner or out of control. Sometimes I can tell the person behind me is annoyed by my slowdown (especially if there's not a "go around" option, and I kind of take pleasure it in the moment.

As long as you turn on your blinker you are fine.