Disclaimer: I got two hours of sleep because my cats are assholes and like to lick up my nose while I am sleeping and when I WAS sleeping I had nightmares about losing them, which is funny because given the situation shouldn’t that actually have been an awesome dream? But it wasn’t and it was stressful and now I am feeling cracked out and exhausted and hatey so this is what you’re getting, because the world sucks right now. And yes, MAYBE it also had something to do with the fact that I consumed my weight in champagne last night but it was for a damn good reason that you will hear about tomorrow when my angry level is not, as Charlie would say, “UP TO HERE RIGHT NOW!!! YOU’VE GOT ME UP TO HERE!!!”
The world? Has got me up to HERE right now.
/disclaimer.
I hate people.
No, really, it’s true. If I don’t know you and already love you, I probably hate you. I can’t help it. So often I think of the quote from Men In Black (don’t judge) when Will Smith asks why they don’t just TELL people about the aliens, and Tommy Lee responds (I’m paraphrasing here):
“A PERSON is smart. PEOPLE are dumb, panicky animals, and you know it.”
This basically sums up how I feel about the entire human race. A person, one on one, as an individual, can be pretty cool. Maybe you decide you even like them, so you overlook whatever it is about their personality that would undoubtedly drive a stranger INSANE. My point is, everyone (myself included, obviously) possesses certain qualities that a friend may be able to look past, but in the grander scheme of things, they are what could be known as GINORMOUS PERSONALITY FAILS.
Maybe you don’t pull your weight in groups.
Maybe your friends always have to throw in extra to cover your cheap ass tip.
Maybe you let the opposite sex walk all over you, time and again.
Maybe you try to prove your roots, where you come from, SO BADLY that you become transparent to everyone around you.
Maybe you point out the faults of others to hide your own.
Maybe you stand in the middle of the sidewalk to talk to someone while annoyed commuters stream around you.
Maybe you never, EVER admit when you’re wrong, even at the expense of losing your friends.
Maybe your voice sounds like Minnie mouse in a tin can.
Maybe you say the word ”like” 4.5 times in each sentence.
Maybe you’re obsessed with talking so much about the things that you ARE, to hide the fact that they’re the very things you’re NOT.
Maybe you’re so used to getting your own way that you don’t even realize just how manipulative you are anymore.
Maybe you say you “just don’t get along with other girls” when, actually, THEY don’t get along with YOU.
Maybe you’re twenty something fucking years old and still show up to a house party empty handed.
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So, what’s your thing? That annoying thing that your friends choose to ignore about you, but is a glaring personality flaw to anyone looking in from the outside?
Hint: One of the ones above is my own…
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I have been guilty of letting guys walk all over me but I know I do it.
I get lazy. I like the attention. I have a hard time writing off someone for a fatal flaw bc of other attributes I like. I wanna fuck him.
I will say that at least I know I am doing it AND I will at least admit he is an asshole while I am doing it. I never think they are good guys.
I don’t know what that says about me.
Knowledge is power, my dear. At least we’re aware… xo
DAMNIT LILU!
Would you please get a vid service provider that is CANADIAN friendly?
That’s my fail. I like to be able to see videos even if I live in Canada, eh?
I’m sorry! I tried to find it on youtube, but it’s Hulu only. Just watch the episode “The Nightman Cometh” of Always Sunny.
You know how when people go on interviews they say things like “I’m a people person”? I never say that. I am not a people person. People, for the most part, really irritate me.
Anyone who says that? Yeah, that’s their “thing”.
I’m a major FAIL when it comes to letting people walk over me. I’m desperate for an easy life (and pretty incapable of standing up for myself in some situations or just with certain people) that I just let people do whatever they want. Although, I’m working on changing this – mainly because I’m find myself getting extremely annoyed (with myself) and frustrated (with myself) for letting it happen.
I also tend to put myself down a lot….but unlike a lot of people I don’t do it so that people tell me how great I am. I do it because I just haven’t quite found that special something I’m good at yet.
Here’s to hoping I find it soon!!!
Looking forward to tomorrow….I’m going to be guessing what it is allllllllll afternoon….i think I may have already guessed correctamondoly!
I hear ya, darlin. I used to have a complex about that myself when I was younger… Years of bartending, killer friends, and now, this corner here have helped me realize I’m pretty fucking cool, actually.
And SO, my dear, are you.
one of my many, many flaws is how I get overly and unnecessarily worked up about stupid situations.
the chill pill?
i needs it.
Drugs are a good thing.
What is this thing you call, ‘friends?’
Huh.
I guess that means I probably have more than one annoying thing.
Did you see “The Hangover” yet? … You’re Zach Galifanakis, aren’t you. “And we’re the three best friends…”
I say “like” like a lot haha. No but really, my thing is that I tend to be on the selfish side. I just like things the way I like them…like o.k.? I also get annoyed very easily and yet sometimes I realize I do the same things that annoy me so much in other people.
Oh by the way, I would be so honored to be e-bff’s with you, but I’m not sure this is the right time to talk about it since you hate the human race right now.
I hate people I don’t know. You, I love.
I’m a huge know-it-all. HUGE. It doesn’t helo that I’m almost always right. See, I just did it again. But seriously, I’m practically never wrong.
You and B would get along juuuust fine, since neither of you are ever wrong…
you know like when everyone is like OMG i like totally can’t believe that! and then you’re all like i can and they’re all like seriously like OMG i like totally do not get it!!!
i like totally hate that. like, for real.
OMG! No way!
xoxo
and, ditto to maiden metallurgist. i’m the same way.
No, you’re not. You’re wrong.
HA!
Hmm….I’d have to agree with Lemmonex, I try to see the good in assholes even when I know and say myself that they’re dicks.
I’m also anal about being on time to the point that people will purposefully show up late to piss me off : )
I’m with you on the late thing. Ten minutes, okay… just let me KNOW. Anything more than that better have a doctor’s note. I HATE WAITING with the fire of a thousand suns.
I have nothing wrong with me because I am perfect and my friends know this and love this about me. Now that I’ve removed my head from my ass, I am quite the drama queen and my boyfriend kindly puts up with that about me every single day. Now that I think about it this could become really long if I told you all my annoying habits!!!
At least you KNOW you’re the drama queen. Nothing worse than the girl who won’t ADMIT she is…
I need someone to hold my hand in crowds.
That, and I let men walk all over me and stick around for more, and keep going BACK for more until he dumps me. And then I cry. My friends? Sick of the crying. For something I did to myself.
I’ll hold your hand, baby.
What Mike said. Screw Hulu.
By the way, I never thought your voice sounded like Minnie Mouse in a tin can. You sound more like Goofy.
I have been known on occasion to allow…ahem…members of the opposite sex to…uhhh…get away with certain things that I would normally not put up with. See Lem’s post above.
And uh, sometimes I make rash decisions, like say…ripping down a blog and moving it without giving any notice.
Apologies for the Hulu. Love you, Canada.
And, uh, this is my “shocked and surprised” face…
If it is the sidewalk one then we are no longer efriends.
NEVER. I have a couple friends who have done this to me, and I’ve had to slowly guide them to the side. Because if I were a bystander on the sidewalk, I would’ve already throw a ‘bow in their ribs.
I swear too fucking much.
Fuck yeah, man.
HA these were so fucking perfect. The annoying thing about me? Ah……um. I’m obsessed with being punctual and fucking ruthless if you’re late- but on the other hand can’t even manage to return peoples phone calls, for weeks….sometimes months. I always spend entirely too much time asking people if I’m skinny- cause I’m a vain motherfucker.
Oh, I can’t do phone calls, either. You want to talk to me, you better put it in writing so I can answer it whenever I damn well please.
I can’t stand the fact that I’m temperamental. Very much so. I can hide it from most people, but those closest to me see it on a regular basis.
I know nothing about being this way.
#lies
I write really angry letters to men I date or sleep with after they inevitably piss me off (seriously vitriolic in content), and somehow expect different results. Every. Single. Time. I’m shocked when they don’t want to continue said activities because they’re now officially scared of me. Granted, they usually want to stay friends…but still. Not the same.
I can be really impatient with people. Sometimes especially when they’re in the same place I was in at one point, which means I should be inherently more forgiving. I’m trying to work on that one, though. I hate being a hypocrite.
I feel like the fact that you just used the phrase “vitrolic in content” in a blog comment makes up for most of that.
I hate people too!
Especially the one’s who find a way to make everything about them. They ask you how your weekend was, without giving two shits, just so you’ll ask them. Douches!
Can we just change that to “smalltalk”, actually? I like mine with a side of idon’tgiveafuck.
I’m proud to say that I’ve only been wrong once in my life, and that was a time when I thought I was wrong but I was really right.
You get 18,000 brownie points for that one, my dear.
I love that quote. People are yucky. A person can be good (sometimes.) I think I have all of those bad parts and more at times. But somehow people still love me (on occassion.) That’s waht friends are for, right?
btw, I was in DC this weekend and the whole time I was thinking “omg, what if I see Lilu?!” And then I realizd that Lilu isn’t your real name and if I came running up to you screaming “lilu, lilu, omg!” you’d probably run away and get a restraining order.
Um… we did not meet for drinkies, WHY?!
like, like, like, like
but, im trying to curb my valley girl. i’m sure there are others, but i can only be so insightful on my day off.
Day off? Hooker. THAT’S your flaw.
Thank god we’re both perfect.
And so shall our union be.
This past weekend I was standing in line at El Pollo Rico and the entire group behind me were asking the dumbest questions about the place, or just eating chicken in general: “Half chicken? What’s a half chicken?”
It’s half a chicken you dumbass.
Math is hard.
If I were to admit that I never admit that I’m wrong, that would be admitting I’m wrong, right? Which, since I’m capable of doing, will now make me a perfect and wonderful specimen of humanity. Whoo-hoo!
I guess my biggest personality trait is that I HATE happy people and revel in the fact that I can piss them off in under 30 seconds. While that’s good for me and all, it probably angers a few others–specifically the happy peeps.
And, see! I did get the feed thingamahoozit fixed.
Win! And, I’m sorry, but if happy people are that easy to piss off, well, they kinda deserve it, don’t they? (Another of mine is that I am evil…)
Wow, this is like group therapy. My friends and family would tell you that I talk too much, that I’m impatient and that because of my own insecurities I point out the faults in other people. That’s all I want to admit to right now. It feels good to know I’m not alone.
Oh, and LiLu – you are definitely not ready for kids yet
Not even Maxie’s and mine? They would make the world such a better place!
Overall, people annoy me: their habits, noises, smells, etc. I think that might be my fault, though–really, easily annoyed. Also, I travel a lot , and I’m really bad at staying in touch with people who aren’t family or really close friends. I tend to just “disappear”. I’m working on it though! Maybe, my website will help, at least, let everyone know I’m alive
I’m getting better at the whole keep in touch thing, I think… at least with the people I truly care about. But then, you also know those are the ones you could never truly lose, yanno?
Oh man I love you. I spend 2/3 of my life hating the bulk of humanity (and that’s on a GOOD day)
ps- the video you posted can only be viewed in the US- why do you hate us Canadians? We have bacon and maple and beer and shit like that.
[sings] These are a few of my FAVORITE things!
i only want to do what i want to do. if my friends want to do something that doesn’t interest me, i bail. and i’m not sorry about it either. oh, i know plenty about compromise – but its reserved for the hubs.
I think that’s fair. I’m sorry, but I’m too broke to be spending money on stuff I don’t want to do. Unless you’re putting out for me.
psh. obviously im perfect, and there is nothing wrong with me!
two of the aboves are my own too, Lilu. I seriously put up with people I like though, and I hope they do too. It’s the unknowns that we can’t stand, usually.
Agreed. Sigh. Guess we’ll never know…
I know I’m guilty of some of the ones you mentioned, from time to time. Most frequently the “walk all over you” one. I like to cover it by saying I’m just really tolerant and easy going.
Lies.
And now your secret is out to all the world…
My thing is that I’m way too much of a pushover way too often. It means that situations that should’ve either been fixed or should’ve ended the friendship months ago get ignored, as I pretend they’re not that big of a deal. It would be better for everyone if I just smacked some fools every once in a while.
I would argue with you, but I’ve already told you what I think, so… yeah. Take that, Mr. Nicey McNicerson.
Totally off-topic, but anyone know what happened to fearless’ blog? Blogger says it has been removed! Now what will I do all day? Work?
My darling Fearless up and moved herself to wordpress this weekend without telling anybody. Weird. Hew new url is http://fearlessintoronto.wordpress.com, or you can just click on my blogroll.
Are you the minnie mouse voice in a tin can?? If not I need to meet this person. My husband is a glass half empty, so I try to be a glass half full but damn it, it’s hard sometimes! I’m a worrier and I think that annoys people. Especially my what if questions…and probably my jokes too. Hang in there LiLu. No one is as awesome of you. That is what I’m going to tell my children to boost their self esteem. Jesus how did this turn into a fucking essay?
I am not the Minnie Mouse… it’s completely hypothetical, of course…
I’m pretty impatient.. “I want it and I want it NOW” Also, I am not very good at living in the present. Always waiting for the next thing to happen. I want to get engaged and I want it NOW. ha! YEAH, I could keep going, I’m that annoying!
Impatience is, unfortunately, my middle name. Twinsies!
I ramble on about whatever I’m obsessed with at the moment. Sometimes I catch myself, sometimes not so much. Most normal people don’t want to hear about *all* of the intricacies of mixing and preheating resin for poker chips, for example.
That, and I have extremely large ‘wedding tackle’. Oh, but I guess that’s not a personality thing.
Wedding tackle? Something is telling me NOT to google that…
You sound like Hubby. He calls the Human Race a Virus. It is really. I always have to prove how smart I am and how I know more than you. Because I do. I read a lot and am smart. It’s just true. I can’t help it. You should read up on current events and shit and then we can talk. (Not you personally…well, maybe you personally, I don’t know.) Big fault.
Actually, a lack of interest in current events is DEFINITELY one of *my* faults, as B would be too happy to tell you… so ironic for an International Politics major…
I never shut up.
Unless I should be talking, then you can’t get a word out of me.
I guess you call that contrary?
I don’t know. I much prefer that to someone who never shuts up… don’t you?
I hate hulu’s lack of *international availability*
Oooh…two you mentioned are actually mine: Minnie Mouse in a tin can…yup, telemarketers call and ask, “Can I speak to your mom or dad?” My reply, “Sure….why don’t you call them at their house.”
It’s like…how can you be like, so rude, like would I call your house and like as for your mummy or daddy??? Li…guess you know which one the 2nd one was.
Haha! You definitely need to do a vlog so we can all hear it!
I have the rather nasty habit of taking blame for things beyond my control — to a ridiculous extent. You could say I have a “guilt complex”.
I talk during movies. I blame MST3K for this.
I apparently give Catholics everywhere a bad name. You know me well enough to probably guess why.
I kinda sorta maybe lack tact in many situations. I can outblunt a hammer.
This is a fun game.
I am stealing “I can outblunt a hammer.” See, because the hammer has that pointy side, too… we do not.
I have my perceived faults (for one, I’m far too handsome and sexy for the world), but I’d be curious to what an outside observer would say. Obviously, I’m probably delusional (with occasional moments of sanity).
Mine aren’t above I think, I can be too non-confrontational because I want to avoid a fight with strangers, but at home I can be a raging bitch. Also, like many of us here, I do like things to go my way. Selfish? Probably, but if I am so is the rest of humanity.
I could probably use a little less confrontationalism in my life.
Also, I make up words…
I HATE PEOPLE TOO. GAH!
I may very will bite this blog topic and give you the best credit ever for it. I haz been inspired.
ALSO. MIB rules. Anyone who says differently will get cut. CUT! SAY I WONT GODDAMNIT.
Bite away, my dear. Can’t wait to read it. I am fuel to the fire…
I threaten to punch people in the face, usually when I first meet them. Although, I like to call that a little laying down of the law rather than a personality flaw. And most certainly, my knack for rhyming is a plus. So, uh, who wants to be my friend?
Stop that rhyming, now, I mean it!
Does anybody want a peanut?
1. Great post.
2. I’m gonna have that song Danny Devito was singing stuck in my head for the rest of the day, so thanks for that.
3. I bet your thing is saying “like” a lot. I do that too.
4. My “thing” is being overly sarcastic, to a point where I might hurt someone’s feelings even though I’m just joking. No one has ever told me I do this, but I have a sinking feeling I do. So I’ve been trying to be aware of it. Perhaps practically being raised by The Simpsons and Married With Children wasn’t such a good thing, after all.
You say “have that song Danny Devito was singing stuck in my head” like it’s a bad thing…
And if a Simpsons childhood is wrong, I don’t wanna be right.
How did you know about my voice? It may sound like Minnie in a tin can speaking through a straw but I thought I had masked it pretty well.
I often despise collective human behaviour.
“Collective human behaviour” is a GREAT way of putting it.
This seems like one of the typical job interview questions – “what are your weaknesses” – where you’re supposed to have a ready answer that is technically a weakness but really is a strength.
What’s mine? I randomly drift into tangential pontification that can border on bloviation, and almost always lasts a paragraph too long.
You know I cap out at two syllables.
At least on Mondays.
I am incapable of telling a story without exaggerating. I am stubborn. I am always right. I “know” a lot about everything. I am an obnoxious drunk.
It’s a wonder that I have any friends, really.
There is no such thing as exaggeration. Only “making it better”-ation.
Phew. Thanks for the update on fearless’ whereabouts. Now I can rest, and I suppose I should throw my few cents in here about my one and only character flaw. It’s always about me. Whether it’s where we go, what we do, the music we listen to, it’s gotta be the Susan show. But seriously, it’s not like you’d want it any other way.
Ha, you are welcome. I’m sure she’s given quite a few people heart attacks.
And I’d totally watch The Susan Show. Are there monkeys?
Amen! I am stubborn as an ox. And we all know ox are very stubborn creatures. Right? Otherwise where would that saying come from. I get it from my mom’s side. So I blame her. It’s totally not my fault. What? Oh yeah, I also don’t like to admit I do anything wrong. Ever.
I’m stubborn as a mule. Twinsies!
I dislike people who walk around criticizing everyone, and yet in my mind, I am extremely critical. (Unless I like you. And then you can do just about anything. But everyone else sucks.) How ridiculous and intolerant is this?
I know. I often wish I could have the dialogue that plays in my head recorded as I walk around the city. I’m all Mean Girls in my head, but I would never want to hurt an innocent person’s feelings… Please to file this under “things that don’t make sense at all.” Thanks.
I have a personality flaw? Me?
Okay…maybe my flaw is that every single other person in the world gets on my nerves. (with the exception of blue eyes, but he is the one and only exception). I try really hard NOT to let all the other people in the world know that they are driving me BONKERS, but with some of them, I just don’t care if they know, cuz I can barely tolerate them.
As long as you use the word “bonkers”, I’m pretty sure you can get away with saying anything you want. Awesome.
I hate being in control when I’m outside of my house. I have to be in control when I’m in it. This is but one of many, Lilu, one of many….
Ironically, that makes PERFECT sense to me. I HATE picking the restaurant where we’re going to eat dinner, MUST choose where that picture is going to be hung. (Hanged?)
What if I sound like Minnie Mouse in a tin can? I dressed up like Minne Mouse for Halloween one year.
Not really. Ok maybe I did. Or not…. See now you’re confused.
It’s cool.
But if it’s a Halloween costume, then it’s just a little extra authenticity!
I piss people off because I generally have pretty crappy self-esteem. Seriously, I got YELLED at in Vegas because Tara was like “YOU ARE GORGEOUS AND I WOULDN’T HANG OUT WITH YOU IF YOU WEREN’T!!” And I was trying to hide in the corner because I get scared to get noticed. I wanted to wear a dress Saturday night and I started thinking about someone might think I was trampy and panicked and wore jeans and a wifebeater just. like. always.
I’m also really boring. So there’s that.
My darling dear, if there is one thing you AREN’T, it is boring. Any fool who’d seen three of your tweets would know that.
I think my “thing” is that I often use the Lord’s name in vain at totally inappropriate times. Actually all the time. Its pretty hard for me to have a conversation wherein I don’t exclaim, “Jesus Fucking Christ” or “The Virgin hates you” or “Do you think Jesus would think I’m funny” or “Glory be Daisy of Love, so sayeth the Lord. Amen to Baby Jesus”
In closing, I think my thing is that I’m a heretic.
“Glory be Daisy of Love, so sayeth the Lord. Amen to Baby Jesus”
Wait. You mean that’s not the Lord’s Prayer??
Shit.
I hate people, too. I pretend I love them for the sake of happiness and butterflies, but really? I hate them.
I’m controlling. (There, I said it.) I mean, kind of. I like to pretend I’m not, but I like for things to go my way. Luckily, I’m getting better at being happy when things don’t go my way.
I’m just getting better at getting my way.
Kidding.
Mostly…
hello! man, I finally figured out how to get your website to pop back up in my dashboard… PHEW! that, plus my lack of internet presence for the past week has made me miss your blog!
anyways, I’d have to say one bad thing about myself is that I’m lazy. really lazy. I do everything last minute…
OH! I’ve heard Always Sunny is a really good show… my friend is always trying to convince me to watch it. she says I would enjoy it! maybe I’ll have to look it up sometime!
Always Sunny is the best thing to happen to television since Arrested Development. Trust.
Glad you found your way back!
Well, where do I begin? I’m sure my friends would rattle off a few. The biggest one would probably be my lack of patience. So much in fact, that I’ll interrupt and finish people’s sentences for them. My coworkers especially hate this one.
Eh. Coworkers were made to be annoyed, yes?
I don’t know what my one thing is. How do I know what my one thing is? I mean… I’m stubborn and I know it, but it’s nothing that my friends have to overlook. I don’t think…
Stubborn could definitely be one… it’s certainly one of mine.
“Maybe you say you “just don’t get along with other girls” when, actually, THEY don’t get along with YOU.”
You totally named mine. I only have about 3 close girlfriends and one of them lives in Arizona. My epic FAIL is when it comes to girls, I’ve set my standards so high that I end up ruining friendships that I shouldn’t have even started. Maybe I’m not as great as I think I am, but I’m not going to let other women feel otherwise. I’m a real bitch, but if I shut my mouth and let half of them get away with the shit they’ve tried to pull who would I be? I would be letting them walk all over me like some doormat.
Sorry for the foul language. I curse worse than a drunken sailor.
The day I quit swearing will be..
Oh, who am I kidding. Never gonna happen.
And NO ONE should be a doormat. If that’s the case, that relationship is definitely not worth it, you know?
This is such an awesome show!
The very, very best.
Mine’s whining about how fucking HULU won’t let me watch content in Canada. And then sulking. Sniff.
That is totally sulk-worthy. Hulu, what are you thinking??
My friends all hate how freakin awesome I am and how my sheer awesomeness overshadows all of them.
It is such a burden we bear.
I get on soap boxes too easily. You have a problem? Let me tell you how I think you should handle it. Doesn’t matter if you wanted me to tell you, I’m going to tell you & you are going to sit there and like it……
and after reading what I just typed I have come to the realization that I am a major bitch
Let’s go with “strong-willed” and “extremely helpful”. Thank goodness for spin.
I overanalyse situations when really it’s everyone else being a f*cktard and not me.
I then apologise when I’m not sorry, or try too hard to justify my actions and then it makes everything worse. So really, at the end of it all, I end up being the one who is remembered as a f*cktard.
Dammit!
But on the plus side, you also say fucktard, which is one of my most favoritest words. FTW!!
I loved this post! So, let me see. I’m impatient, get annoyed with people who don’t pull themselves together when they need to, and finally, the biggest dang drama queen sometimes. So much of a drama queen that my sister will often say, “What is wrong with you now?” And finally, I can be quite the bitchita.
But you, Lilu, are a lovely flower, as I call my students.
xoxo
I am a delicate blossom, it is true.
(Stop laughing…)
I eat, drink, swear, think and sleep too much. I’m lazy, socially inept, always broke and my friends have to cover for me all the time. I’m impatient with anyone younger than me and I’m too effing clever.
I think that about covers it…
We really should be friends.
I def. let people walk all over me && I freak out way too much about silly things. Goddam I’m a walking FAIL! hahah.
I am totally with you on the second one! But I learned not to let people walk on me long ago… maybe too much so.
I would have to say my “thing” is that I very desperately want people to like me. And I worry that they don’t. I OBSESS about it. Oh, and I’m “too nice”. I worked for someone once who, when asked on a reference call what my biggest weakness is they said I was “too nice”.
The wanting people to like me thing and the “too nice” thing are related.
Sorry you’re havin’ kitteh nightmares!
I definitely extend myself too much among my friends. But only within that circle… if you’re outside of it, you ain’t gettin shit from me.
First of all… Excellent post.
Secondly… I think I’m the kind of person that can be relaxed one minute and just chill, but tomorrow I’ll be a b*tch on wheels. I think my husband sticks around just to see what tomorrow will bring.
If that isn’t an option, then I’m the person that likes to talk about themselves too much. (Who doesn’t?)
Variety is the spice of life, no? And thanks, dear.
Yeah, um, I am totally guilty of this crime:
“Maybe you say the word ”like” 4.5 times in each sentence.”
I think we all are… it’s a 90s thing.
Depending on if I am in a mood, I may or may not answer your phone call. And I am in moods all the fracking time. Don’t call me. Text me. Give me the option to not have to respond right that damn second!
OH and I like to argue., in a know-it-all sort of way. But I suck at arguing. So once I realize I can’t be right, I cry and make you feel bad for not letting me be right.
That 2nd one is probably the one that will one day push my Hubby over the edge. I also blame this one for my lack of friends, other than the fact that I just don’t want friends because I hate people!
I never, EVER answer the phone. It’s too stressful, or something. If I want to talk to you, I’ll collect myself and call you back in a few minutes.
Weird, I know…
Oooh, this is a good post. I know there are a lot of things I do that my boyfriend overlooks (bitchiness, insecurity, snobbiness) but my friends?
I’m like Rachel M: hella preachy (I bet no one who’s ever read my blog would guess, haha). I also have really bad mood swings, correct others’ grammar, can be really uptight about stuff like making the bed, am ALWAYS early for things and am picky about my food.
There’s more, I’m sure of it.
It’s funny how it’s different things for the BF and the friends, isn’t it? I’m noticing that too, in myself and the comments.
I think I’m smarter than everyone. Seriously. “I have a masters’ degree in…” comes out of my mouth way too much.
And I’m shallow. I have a wonderful boyfriend who loves me the way no one has ever loved me. And yet, it pisses me off he buys me practical gifts instead of impractical, sparkly things I can wear.
Also, I’m always broke. I’m always *that* friend who can only go out if someone else will spot me the money for drinks and dinner.
Practical gifts are for dads. Eff that noise… bring on the shiny!
*sigh*
When I was watching that episode, I could barely see the tv during Danny Devito’s troll toll song b/c my eyes were filled with tears. SO GREAT.
It sounds like alot of your readers share the same flaws — great minds think alike!
I always want my way and will present rationalizations about why it should be my way until hell freezes over; I’m an insanely picky eater which is alot of fun for friends when picking restaurants / hosting parties; and best of all: I’m crazy judgmental. I was at a wedding with college friends I hadn’t seen in a few years and in conversation, one asked if I had given up anything for Lent. I told her that I was trying to be less judgmental and she said “Oooh, bad time to see us again, huh?”
The first time I saw The Night Man Cometh, I just sat silent, in shock and awe.
Then I watched it eleventy billion more times, and it gets better every. single. TIME.
It just so happens I LOVE haterade.
And “maybe” I always get to drunk and say things most people would consider “out of line” or “innapropriate”.
Thank god for my tolerant friends.
I say out of line and inappropriate things sober…
I say HORRIFYINGLY OFFENSIVE things drunk.
Though I kinda think that’s why my friends keep me around…
Goodness, what is the ONE the wrong with me????
I tend to vent, just a little. You know, I’m the person who can ‘melt down’ over something tiny and you think, “Damn, that woman needs some drugs.” Usually my poor husband is left in my wake.
Venting is a necessary part of being the complex and amazing creature that is a woman.
I think God gave us boobs so the men can put up with it.
The man in my life and the men in my past would tell you that I’m a pain in the ass. I tend to nag when I want something…such as a committment(the current issue) or something as simple as returning a phone call or wearing a normal looking tie to a friends wedding.
I’ll deny this side of myself but I always know it’s there and when it’s about to surface.
Oh, darlin… we are all pains in their asses, but it generally goes both ways.
i think my friends look past (or make fun of me) when i repeat stories or say the same word like “granted” millions of time in conversation, haha.
I get stuck on one word too! Like “basically,” or “generally.” And I’ll say it like 9 times, like a broken record- so weird.
I’m gonna guess that, since telemarketers call and ask if they can speak to my parents and probably everyone who got the voicemail at my last job thought someone let their 4-year-old record the outgoing message, I have a voice that sounds like Minnie Mouse in a tin can. On the upside, I probably have fewer phone calls to return as a result.
I also probably say “like” way too much, but I plead Californian? And I’m impatient, especially with certain friends and family. But maybe that’s just because I love yelling.
You can plead Californian. But we’re gonna need to see a vlog to excuse the Minnie Mouse thing…
I’m pretty transparent with my emotions. If I’m upset/annoyed/in a bad mood/don’t like you, it most likely shows.
I feel sorry for my friends sometimes when they have to deal with me acting like a fucking baby sometimes. But I love them for putting up with me all the same.
Oh, I have absolutely ZERO poker face. Blessing and curse…
Having a such a crappy today… I very much relate.
I have to watch that show. My sister really likes it too.
YES. Yes you do. Best show EVERRRRRRRRRR
I love the mornings and am way too chipper in the a.m. If I were me and not a morning person, I’d probably punch myself in the face.
I also sing in the shower all of the time.My singing…think cat being tasered, that about gives you a general idea.
I also leave water bottle caps everywhere. Why, I don’t know–but it probably drives people crazy.
No one is perfect, and people definitely suck a lot–but they have their moments, and with each person’s annoying flaw there comes an amazing quality.
I hope your week gets better, girl!
I’ll see your water bottle caps and raise you the BEER bottle caps B leaves everywhere, which, as it turns out, are the kittens’ very favorite toy in the whole world. not so great at 5am.
Thanks, dear
oooh! ooh! @r refugee…I know the answer to that interview question.
ahem.
“In the past I have been made aware by that I (example) spend too much time with patients, and so I became more mindful of my time management with regard to that.”
Its a setup question, and that is the only correct phrasing of the answer.
Huh! just found that out recently after my 13,000th MSN article about getting a job….excuse me….getting off unemployment.
aaaaand my fault would be poring over info on a particular topic until I know as much as possible,in case it ever comes in handy. Like now. Do you hate me, or is it endearing and sometimes useful?
Endearing. DEFINITELY endearing.
I love to help people. Really. But when they aren’t thankful – scratch that- when they aren’t falling all over themselves with undying gratitude for me, I get really annoyed. Like they should be APPRECIATIVE! Therefore, I guess my love of helping people is not selfless and unconditional. Yet I still do it. I’m messed up, go figure.
I’m so with you. I’ve had people come to stay with us for a weekend- which I am more than happy to do! But when you show up without so much as a “Thank You,” never mind a bottle of wine or a take-me-out-to-dinner, you can bet that invite won’t be extended again.
I am usually a good 5 or 10 minutes late. I swear in the presence of old people and little kids.
Eh. The old people are deaf, and the little kids need to learn sometime…
I say like a lot. My dad used to make me wear a rubber band which I would snap every time I said it when it was “unnecessary.”
I suuuckkkk at calling people back. Royally, if you will. If I don’t leave the notification up on my phone, or if I listen to your voicemail and don’t immediately call you back–I will forget. Not that I don’t love you, I’m just scatterbrained.
I’ve got most of my friends trained to NOT leave voicemail, because they know it will be at least 2 weeks before I listen to it, and even then it’s only because it’s full.
I isolate and stop answering my phone for a week or two. I go into a cave of extreme independence to the detriment of my friendships. I’m very lucky though because they always take me back.
I’d take you back any day, love. xo
I think my friends and family would agree that it’s quite difficult to listen to my life plan… because it seriously changes once a week. Not a minor tweak, but a full out transmutation!! Hence my current predicament…
“15 minutes ago you knew people were alone on this planet, imagine what you will know tomorrow” Love me some Will Smith
Seriously. That movie was fun, but also kinda deep, in a cheesy way.
My Flaw: I own Will Smith’s Greatest Hits CD, and it’s awesome.
I also hate people, which is mostly derived from working in customer service for entirely too long.
The Greatest Hits is NO flaw, but I hear you re: customer service. Working in restaurants for a decade have done the same to me.
I interrupt…
It’s terrible. I try not to. Really, it’s usually just because I agree with something you’re saying and I want you to know I’m simpatico. But it makes me seem like I don’t care what you’re talking about.
I feel awful when I do it.
Um, I was in the middle of talking…
Heh. Love that Men in Black quote. Reminds me of the quote from Mary Poppins where the suffragette mom sings that individually men are smart but “as a group they’re rather stupid.” So true! Of all of us, not just men. People, man.
(But maybe a little more men.)
What?
One thing people hate about me is how I tend to think there is nothing really wrong with me. I would be the girl on “Mean Girls” who everyone lets drop on the floor.
Well, if they drop to floor, that just makes you look better, right…?
I’m with you on all of these. And I’m definitely guilty of saying “like” too much, but I’m trying to get better about that!
We’re all working on our things- that’s all we can really do.
i have to agree with all of the above on that, girl. i hates me some people!
They are assholes, man. For reals.
yeah…i feel you…
i can see myself in the statements above (ahem did i just say statements) but thats what my “alone” time is for….to get away from people and just love me,
altho i am trying to change, i guess im not making any big progress or anything…but trying is good right??
Trying is everything. It really is.
There are too many things wrong with me Lilu. I’m stubborn, moody, impatient and clumsy. The fact that people still love continue to amaze me.
Oh, shite. Is clumsy one? Because I need to add that to my own list, then…
amen sistah. i hate people too. (typed tool)
People are lame sauce.
I sometimes hate people too. Especially slow-walkers. They drive me CRAZY!
I want a “Slow Walker” video game where you just get to take everyone out who’s in your way. AWESOME.
Where the hell do I begin?
I suppose if I had to ask my friends they’d say I’m a mean, opinionated, judgemental bitch.
I try not to be.
Sometimes.
Ha, you’re better than me… I just accept it.
Haha. I too used to be a people person. But now I just don’t have the energy.
I’d say my biggest problem right now is that I don’t hide my true feelings. You can read every emotion on my face. Like if I just don’t care what you’re talking about and am bored I don’t bother hiding it.
Which one are you???
I have no poker face, either. Gets me into trouble sometimes.
And I’m surprised you’re the only one who asked…
I moan….about everything. Most things that come out of my mouth are negative…
On the tip thing…we were out for my BDay meal last week and there was 9 of us so the bill was pretty big. So the bill came and we said we’d just split it equally. Most people had about the same and the couple who had a bit more than everyone else put some extra money in….and then one person says ‘oh, I shared rice and wine so I’m just going to pay for what I had’ when everyone had about the same, this meant that the rest of us had to pick up the extra on the bill. Pissed me right off that did.
The tip things is actually a dealbreaker for me, as far as friendships go. I just can’t tolerate cheapskatism.
And, I’m a moaner too…
TWSS.
I love it’s always sunny.
That list was so poignant that a real person popped into my head at every description.
I’m a bit of a stress ball and sometimes I get so uptight about things that worry me that it can’t not filter into everyone around me.
“…a real person popped into my head at every description.”
Mine, too…
“Maybe you’re twenty something fucking years old and still show up to a house party empty handed.”
Um, yeah. That one. (But I’ve gotten so much better in the last year or so, I promise). I over extend myself to others and then get resentful. Also, I’m the absolute worst at returning phone calls to people I don’t care about. Text messaging ALL DAY BABY!!! I can’t hide my feelings for shit, but can be passive aggressive at times, which means I’d set your house on fire before working up the nerve to say “I’m angry at you about . . .” I disappear from situations/people without warning and seclude myself from the world for days (sometimes weeks) at a time, when I get annoyed or burnt out.
Uh. . but other than that, I’m loads of fun!!!
As long as you’ve gotten better about it…
Oh so many. The biggest one is, I can be flaky as hell. I over commit myself because I’m trying to be nice but the truth is I like to have complete flexibility in my schedule (which I know is not always compatible with the reality of planning). So, I’m trying to train myself to say ‘maybe’ whenever practical and to attend if I give a solid ‘yes’. But in the past (the recent past) I have been known to change my mind at the last possible second and in some cases leave people hanging big time.
That’s just one of the many flaws that make me ‘me’!!
“Maybe” has become the most powerful word in my arsenal, as I’m also guilty of over-committing.
When my wife asks me why I don’t like to go out and spend time with actual, real-live people, I tell her that I hate people. For the exact same reasons you listed above.
So say we all.
Wow, LiLu. That’s some rage. I like it!!!
I overbook my schedule and then cancel on friends. I’m trying oh so hard to do that less and less as I get older, but it still happens.
I was ragealicious yesterday… it felt good. And I’m with ya… I don’t do it on purpose, but it definitely happens. SCATTERBRAIN
i am overly quick to judge. if it’s the first time we meet-and you annoy me in five seconds, it’s done. chances are, in my head, you’re a loser and i’ll ignore your presence for the rest of the evening.
i don’t back down. when i know i’m right, YOU know i’m right.
i complain a lot about dudes. but when one tries to talk to me i instantly tell him i have a boyfriend.
i’m sure there are a ton of other things, but i’m giving myself the benefit of the doubt and leaving it at that.
They say most first impressions are formed in about 10 seconds… and I’m inclined to agree.
Well that’s true, of course. I get along fine with people on a one-on-one basis but once in a group, that same person can annoy the shit outta me.
I must have sensed that Charlie Kelly was over here.
Because I just realized that I don’t think I’m getting your bloggy updates on my dumbass following gadget. I have to check the damn settings.
A great personality flaw I have is letting psychotic people talk to me MUCH longer than I should.
Eh… it’s great fodder
I’m a snarky, oversharing attention whore who wants everything YESTERDAY. I think that covers it. You know why I rarely have fodder for TMI Thursday? Because everyday in my life is TMI. I once showed my vibe to dinner party guests to illustrate a story. I have NO shame. And it’s all for the sake of being the center of attention all the time.
Well, some people need a visual to understand…
I avoid any and all confrontation to the point of letting everyone walk all over me. I never let any of my friends know something is bothering me and they basically have to either get me really piss drunk or beat it out of me. Drives them crazy because they never really know what I think.
We would just be drunk all the time, so I always knew what you were thinking.
I’m 29 and I still say things like awesome, and radical….even at work. plus I sound like I’m 12.
Wait… am I not supposed to be saying “radical”? I thought that was retro, or something…
Maybe I whine a lot. And maybe I accidentally talk a lot of smack. And maybe I can’t keep secrets.
You know, MAYBE.
“Accidental smack” is the best kind. All the funny, no guilty…
Maybe I obsess over things until my friends are sick of hearing about it. Maybe.
Isn’t that what the blog is for?
I hate cheap tippers. I also hate people who don’t use their turn signal. How the eff hard is it to flick your pinky?
*flicks*
Not very. Not very at all.
I am just a bitch. I know it though. So I guess that is something. *shrug*
*high fives*
You’d probably like me, being that I’m perfect and all. I don’t suffer from any of those personality flaws you mentioned. I am a gem.
So sparkly!
I’m incredibly moody, basing most of my life decisions on feeling rather than logic, which, most of the time, is okay. HOWEVER, it makes me look EXTREMELY “say one thing, do another” at times.
I remember once when I told a friend I’d be staying the night at her place and then a few hours later, I was like, “Actually… I’m gonna go home, I’m really not feeling it…” Or whatever it was. I dunno. I’m a feeler!
Ain’t nothing wrong with feeling your feelings, my love.
Maybe I’m so loud in big groups that others cannot hear themselves think. Oh and then maybe I’m so loud because I’m begging to be the center of attention. Maybe.
*whistles, walking away*
“Maybe you let the opposite sex walk all over you, time and again.”
Sigh, that’s me. But at least I’m aware of it and have the desire to change it!
Knowledge is power!
Gosh, where do I begin on this one?
One thing I know annoys people is that I talk a lot — and ask A LOT of questions. It’s because I want to know things about the person I’m talking to, but I know it gets on some people’s nerves big time. Another is that I’m really sarcastic. Some people don’t get it and to them I often come off as a royal bitch. I could go on, but I’ll stop there …
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