What Are Your Friends Annoying Habits? [Archive]

8m57w6

August 5th, 2007, 6:48 pm

I have one friend who brags about everything. I love her, and she's a great person, but she brags like crazy. She's really good at pretty much everything she does, and she's the youngest, while her older brothers are both like, 8 or 9 years older than her, so she's slightly spoiled. And a lot of times, she tells me things, and I can't tell if she's like, lying to get attention/sympathy, or telling the truth, like "My dad used to own that store, he was the manager, but then he got fired." And such things. I have a feeling that lost of the times it's not entirely true.

And I have another friend who constantly exaggerates every single story she tells. She's always been kind of insecure, and doesn't think people will like her very much or something, so she's always telling crazy stories, and she tries to be something, like punk or goth, but she really has no idea what it's really like to be punk or goth, so a lot of time spent in her presence is spent akwardly.

Also, pretty much all of my friends swear practically every other word they say. Well, ok, not that much, but still, it's a lot. This wouldn't bug me so much if I swore, too, but I don't, so it bothers me when they do. I've learned to live with it, because it's just a part of culture now, but still, it bugs me. I thought for a while it's because I went to Catholic school for all of grade school, 9 years, and that's why I didn't swear, but so did they, so it's just me. Wow, I really needed to went, I guess.

SydneyCartonFan

August 5th, 2007, 10:00 pm

I am really p.o.ed at my mom right now (not a friend, but close enough) because she is into Tarot and knows I don't like, believe, or want to get into them. But she went to a reader and even after I have made it perfectly clear that I don't want her involving me, she found things out that will supposedly happen in my future.
And what is worse is that even after I told her I felt violated and didn't want to know anything, she will try to sneak things into our conversations. Like today in the car when we were having a perfectly pleasant conversation, she turned it around to the subject and told me two things.
Both seem extremely unlikely as I have no interest in either: that I will give her many biological grandchildren and that I will be a gay rights activist? They were the two most obscure things ever!
I mean, maybe one kid, max, but I would like to adopt as there are so many kids who already need homes. And I'm straight, so I don't get the gay thing, but I do like to be involved in advocating foreign affairs like advocating for Darfur and crimes against humanity.
Sorry for this rant, but I feel personally offended and just needed to vent. I've been dealing with this issue with her for a couple of years now, but more recently it has gotten worse.

mac_attack

August 5th, 2007, 10:20 pm

Leaving you out of a conversation when you are right there.

Trying to get you to join sides when they are fighting.

I hate that. From 6th grade to the middle of 9th, my friends basically walked all over me. I was excluded from the conversations, someone speaking over me if I said something or just ignoring me. They really only let me talk when they wanted me to pick a side when they were fighting (they fought like once a week at least!). They only did this when it was all of us in the group...When it was just two of us the friend acted completely normal. I eventually got so sick of it that I just got up and left their group one day at school. One of my friends from that same group left shortly after I did and we became friends again a couple years later. Aside from her, I've never even spoken to the others since then. For me it was the best thing I could've done...I'm so much happier with the friends I have now.

Another thing that's annoying is that one of my friends (the only one from our original group i'm still friends with) is the biggest flirt! She flirts with any guy: younger, older, cute, ugly, single, or taken. Even when she had a boyfriend she was constantly flirting with other guys, it drives me nuts!!

My last one is one of my guy friends...he has been with his girlfriend for over two years, but when she's not around he cuddles with other girls. At first I didn't really mind, cause he's a touchy-feely guy...hugs all the girls a lot, puts his hand on your arm or around your shoulders, smacks you on the butt when you walk past...but it really started bugging me when we were on vacation together. About 5 of us were laying in the hotel bed watching tv...and he was cuddling under the covers with one of our friends who was not his girlfriend!! If it was any other girl I wouldn't have thought much of it...but the girl he was cuddling is kind of...slutty...for lack of a better term (I love her to death, but she really is). And she has a really obvious crush on him. It drove the rest of us in the bed crazy!!

They are still my friends, tho, and I love them tons! I'm pretty sure stuff I do annoys them just as much, but for some reason they put up with me.

AptPupil

August 6th, 2007, 2:10 am

potterposse

August 6th, 2007, 2:58 am

bloodtraitor13

August 7th, 2007, 11:53 am

No, I'm the friend who is always correcting grammar and spelling.
They hate me for it but they can't complain because I'm also the official editor of all their essays and papers.
My friends used to comlain until I pointed out that it was them getting the good mark!
I have a friend, and she has a very annoying habit of humming. We'll be doing a maths test and she starts humming. It builds up and up until NOBODY is working, just waiting for her to stop humming.

reneerox14

August 7th, 2007, 7:46 pm

My friend will always try to one up you in anything. I told her I had two snowmobiles and she actually had the nerve to say yeah well I have 20 in assorted colors. How stupid does she think I am?? No matter what you do she always tries to top you and it's always lies. I told her I got a lot of new clothes for the new school year and she said her mom spent 1000 dollars on her. COME ON!! give me a break!
Plus she also tries to tell me who I'm allowed to hang out with. I was supposedly her best friend for 2 years and she kicked me out of the locker we were sharing because she didn't like this girl I was friends with. How fake is that?? Needless to say our friendship is basically over because I don't let anyone try to tell me who to hang out with. People who worry about what others think all the time are so lame.

mac_attack

August 8th, 2007, 12:16 am

I thought of another...

This doesn't actually annoy me or my family, but most other people say they would be annoyed/offended...

My little sister's friend has sort of become a family friend...our families hang out together, eat together, email each other...she even goes on vacation with us! We've known her for about 9 years now. The thing that would annoy or offend most people is that when she comes over to our house, she doesn't bother knocking at all...she just walks in, takes off her shoes, and heads upstairs to my sister's room, usually making a stop at the refridgerator or the pantry first. She invites herself over for meals and sleepovers and she's always loud after everyone is asleep.

Personally, it doesn't bother me one bit...we have a few other families who do this too at our house. To me...they are considered part of the family, so I tend to expect it from them. It doesn't bother my parents at all either...except my dad has learned that if he doesn't want her to eat his beef jerky, he'd better hide it!

Honestly, I sometimes get annoyed at my other friends who don't just walk right in. Maybe I'm just lazy, but it feels so much less friendly to me when I have to go answer the door and invite them in and tell them to take their shoes off and make themselves at home. Unless it was their first time to my house or something...then I would understand. Am I weird or do other people do that too??

8m57w6

August 8th, 2007, 12:47 am

I hate that. From 6th grade to the middle of 9th, my friends basically walked all over me. I was excluded from the conversations, someone speaking over me if I said something or just ignoring me. They really only let me talk when they wanted me to pick a side when they were fighting (they fought like once a week at least!). They only did this when it was all of us in the group...When it was just two of us the friend acted completely normal. I eventually got so sick of it that I just got up and left their group one day at school. One of my friends from that same group left shortly after I did and we became friends again a couple years later. Aside from her, I've never even spoken to the others since then. For me it was the best thing I could've done...I'm so much happier with the friends I have now.
That's how I felt during 8th grade. I had a big group of friends, and we were all friends because we had no other friends. We were basically outcasts, the unpopular people, so we all just sort of became friends. We first started hanging out end of 6th grade, then 7th grade as well, and at first, it all worked really well, and we always got along really well, and we would hang out all the time out side of school, and over the summer, etc., but then near the end of 7th grade, a few of them (there were about 12 of us) decided that they didn't want to hang out with some of the rest of us, for some reason or another, and there was a huge thing, right at the end of 7th grade. We eventually got over it, and things were good for a while in 8th, but then we just started fighting like crazy, all the time, loudly, and in front of everyone. Much of it had to with the one girl and guy had been going out, but then he broke up with her, because he liked another of our friends, even though she was going out with another of our friends. (It might get confusing, since I don't want to use names. I know none of them would ever find out, but still.) So the one girl whose boyfriend broke up with her was constantly crying, and pining over him, and being really angry with everyone and causing a scene, and then they'd get back together, and then it would happen all over again, at least 3 or 4 times, and once on her birthday. Most of the time, I would try to reason with them, and try to make them listen, and try to bring about peace, since I reall wanted to stay friends with them all, but several time it just got to be too much, since they would never listen to me, and I would end up exploding, and shouting at them. Then, to top it off, when I was trying to get them to hear me, and listen and just shut up, they would find this funny, and start laughing at me. Also, they would talk about me, or our other friends in whipers when we were sitting two seats away, and would purposely make a big show of it. Actually, a few times, I would whisper nonsense to my one friend, and point and glance at another, just to get her angry when I was mad. Mean, I know, but still. They never, ever took anything seriously unless it was who they wanted to go out with and whether or not they were. Finally, I kind of broke away from them and started hanging out with a few of my other, less-dramatic friends from my group, as well as other people in another group altogether. After graduation, of all 11 of them, I really only kept in contact with one of them, sometimes 2. I still occasionaly see them, but we're not really friends anymore. Actually, there's really only 2 people from my old school that I still talk to. Partly it's because many of them went to a different High School, and partly, I just needed to move on from them. Also, at one point when I was still hanging out with them, but while everything was messed up, a teacher said just in general during class one day, "Show me your friends and I'll show you your future." And I thought this over and realized if I kept hanging out with them, I would likely be on a path that I didn't want at all, and they were not good for who I wanted to be at all. I've made a buch of new friends in High School, and I like them a lot better, and they're better for me. Wow, sorry about all that, but I seriously needed to vent.

mac_attack

August 8th, 2007, 1:18 am

Also, at one point when I was still hanging out with them, but while everything was messed up, a teacher said just in general during class one day, "Show me your friends and I'll show you your future." And I thought this over and realized if I kept hanging out with them, I would likely be on a path that I didn't want at all, and they were not good for who I wanted to be at all.

That's a really amazing quote, actually. I hadn't ever heard it before I read it just now, but it reminded me of something my dad told me when I was about 11. I was in a group of friends that he didn't particularly approve of and one day he took me aside and told me he wanted me to find better friends, that these girls I was hanging out with were trouble. I was so mad! I couldn't believe he would tell me to do something like that, kept thinking to myself he had no idea how hard it would be to make a whole new group of friends. Grudgingly, I followed his counsil...and years later I can look back and say that it saved my life.

Out of the group of girls I was with:
All of them got into drugs.
One dropped out of high school.
One got pregnant when she was 15, and again when she was 17...she lives with her parents, can barely afford to feed her kids.
One has dissappeared completely...I haven't seen or heard from/of her for about 6 years.
The one's who graduated high school barely made it...had poor grades, barely enough attendance to get by, low test scores, and not much hopes of getting into a good college.

As much as I hate to admit it, my dad was right. Those girls were trouble...and I most likely would've gone the same way as them. I guess parents sometimes really do know what they're talking about...who knew?!

LoveMeHP08

August 8th, 2007, 5:01 am

Okay, so i have this friend who like, is so obsessed with show choir and whatnot and all that musical sing songy stuff, and she always breaks out into random song and dance in the middle of the hallway, and it is really embarrassing. like, for real, its okay to sing you know, one or two lines of a song, but not like, the whole entire thing. I hate to say anything though, because she is a sweetheart, but it is sooooo annoying! I just want to be like, stop! for half a second stop singing! okay im done. ahaha, sorry if ive offended anyone that is into show tunes.

Hysteria

August 8th, 2007, 7:29 am

My friend's grammar and spelling correction has gone so far that we've created a spell jar. Same idea as a swear jar but everytime she corrects us she has to put a silver coin in the jar. In the past three days shes already had to put $3.80 in there :lol: Its not like its BAD it just annoys us to the ends of the Earth and she knows it.

What annoys me is all of my school friens speak Japanese and I dont so I just sit there nodding whilst they're going "ooh sentaki! ra ra ra" < only Japanese word I know :lol:

edit: on the topic of friends, I used to go to a very expensive, posh, snobby all girls Christian private school and some of the girls I was friends with horrifies me today!
The girls I wasnt friends with were the ones who gave private girls' schools such a bad reputation in my city. Seriously, they fit the sterotype perfectly. Completely up themselves, really rich parents (my parents are well-off but not rich), have unlimited money at their disposal, really rude and disrespectful to people they thought were below them (socially) and... anything else you want to think of. It made me ashamed/embarrassed to be at the same school as them.

ginnypotter19

August 9th, 2007, 8:29 am

I'm the friend that always corrects my friends in grammatic and spelling, which is weird cause I can only do it if I don't write it down first, :lol: But my friends. . .

I have one that always talks about school and then I ask a simple question she answers it and then goes even further back on it! Even at jokes. Today I told her I know, and she continued to tell me, making sure I knew. But, she is my bestest friend, :lol:.

I have another friend that walks down the hall, sits at lunch, or in classes, and every five minutes she notices a guy looking at her and she whispers, "Do you think he likes me?" and then she tells the guy to stop liking her cause she has a boyfriend.

My guy friends are pretty cool, mostly cause they don't put their girl talk out in the open unless asked, :lol: but at lunch they have a bad habbit at laughing at things that may 'sound wrong'.

8m57w6

August 9th, 2007, 5:30 pm

I have another friend that walks down the hall, sits at lunch, or in classes, and every five minutes she notices a guy looking at her and she whispers, "Do you think he likes me?" and then she tells the guy to stop liking her cause she has a boyfriend.
I had a friend like this, except she didn't have a boyfriend. She was really unpopualr, as all my friends and I were, but she was thoroughly convinced that pretty much every single guy in the grade had a secret crush on her, especially if she liked them, which changed weekly, sometimes daily. This one day during study hall, these two guys got into a fight, and she walked past them while it was happening, and when she got back to our table, she actually whispered to the rest of us, "Oh, no!! I feel so bad!! I think they were fighting over me!". We all knew that the two said guys hated her, and made fun of her all the time, but even though she was extremely naive about pretty much everyone's real opinion of her, we just never told her, because she really was a sweet person, and got upset really easily, too. Plus, she tended not to believe us anyway, since she thought we were jealous that they liked her and not us.

NadaYAK

August 9th, 2007, 6:24 pm

I hate talking to some of my friends online because of the way they type.
****!!! nadaaaaaaaaaaaa u wdn blv di omg no wayyyy he ws lyk brkin up wiv meee

It's not hard to type you know.

8m57w6

August 9th, 2007, 8:21 pm

I hate talking to some of my friends online because of the way they type.
****!!! nadaaaaaaaaaaaa u wdn blv di omg no wayyyy he ws lyk brkin up wiv meee

It's not hard to type you know.
:rotfl: I could barely read that!!! My friend and I were discussing how annoying we find chat speak one time, and as she put it "Vowels are so last decade."

Kyuriko

August 10th, 2007, 5:22 am

I have a friend who is the epitome of annoying. She can be fun to hang around with her cheerful, upbeat personality, but sometimes it's a bit much for even me to handle. She talks almost all the time at a mile a minute and most people don't understand a word she says, and if I don't answer a phone call she'll call me back in the next hour. Not to mention the fact that she always is trying to role-play with me even when it's not appropriate and her role-play character is absolutely horrid and is the definition of a Mary Sue.

Another friend of mine is always blaming everything on her sister and is obsessed with boys. Her sister is a lot nicer than she makes her out to be and I enjoy talking to her, and I don't understand why she can't just tell me that she was on the phone with someone else or whatever every time I call and she doesn't answer. No, it's always, "Hillary didn't pick up the phone!" It's also tiring to see her get rather ridiculous about boys.

I don't really have any problems with my other two close friends, though one of them does little things that annoys me - like, once I let her borrow a book of mine and I asked for it back, and she tells me that she's keeping it a little longer because "she's not done using it." I really hate when she decides things for other people like that.

DogStar777

October 4th, 2007, 1:58 am

When I was in sixth & seventh grade, I was shy, so when I moved. I hung out with the only person who I knew that went there. In sixth grade I didn't notice how different I was from them, because I still didn't konw a lot of people then. But when I went to English Festaval in seventh grade I realized that I was so much more like the others who participated in that, then my so called "friends". Then I began to compare them. The people I used to hang out with were under the label of "prep". Most of them were really annoying. All they talked about were the sports they played, the sports the jocks played, High School Musical, & various other random, pointless gossip. They hung out with each other, but were not a tight-knit group. The worst part is that they wouldn't talk to me, or let me get the gist of the conversation so that I could join in. In the middle school, we changed seats in the cafeteria after each grading period. I stayed with them until that year ended, I still don't know why I didn't ditch them sooner. I think it had something to do with the ones who had actually talked to me. Anyway, I ditched them for my English Festaval friends, who are so much cooler, smarter, more loving, & over all better than my old ones, even though they are not popular at all, which makes them even more endearing to me. The way this tied into this thread is that my old friends were the annoying things with their boring habit of talking about nothing interesting or important. I couldn't help adding my proper friends in for comparison.

Hysteria

October 4th, 2007, 5:50 am

One of my friends randomly breaks out into song. Its just.. so weird.
Example:

A few weeks ago we were talking about a boy in one of our classes and we were divided over whether he was 'hot' or not (oh the important things teenage girlstalk about :lol:) anyway, I said "I dont think hes attractive, but hes not UGLY" and my friend goes "So.. you mean like *u-g-l-y you aint got no alabi you ugly* ugly?" and we all went silent for about 10 seconds until we'd come back to earth :lol: Its just so... weird. I dont think she appreciates how weird it is...

popcornzyum

October 4th, 2007, 4:21 pm

RyanHBP

October 5th, 2007, 4:03 pm

What annoys me is all of my school friens speak Japanese and I dont so I just sit there nodding whilst they're going "ooh sentaki! ra ra ra" < only Japanese word I know :lol:

I have a friend who is obsessed with anything Japanese. she's just sit there talking about japan all day. it gets really annoying, but our group of friends have learned to deal with it (aka. ditch her).

8m57w6

October 5th, 2007, 4:53 pm

One of my friends randomly breaks out into song. Its just.. so weird.
I have a friend who does that. I don't find it annoying, more extremely funny. Most of the time, it would be during lit class, when everyone was quiet, or you know, on the quiet side, and she'd start singing something like "It's Raining Men" and all of our friends would turn and look at her, then she'd go "Oh!! Sorry!! But it's such a good song!" She still does that, and while most of the time, it's actual songs, other times she'll just sing.

IntricateLogic

October 5th, 2007, 10:31 pm

My friends break into song a lot too, it's hysterical. All my friends are the chorus people :lol: Which is weird, because I can't sing at all. Sometimes they'll just sing this high-pitched note, but the way they sing it it's got...rythm, I guess? I don't know how to explain it. Yesterday, my best friend was doing that, and it was Music of the Night from PotO

My best friend has a habit of getting into a bad mood...a lot. It's easy to **** her off, I guess. But it's like, when she's mad, STAY AWAY! :lol:

Wright1771

October 9th, 2007, 9:44 am

I'd have to say he's my best mate, but at times I could murder him. Since I've known him, (1962) he only whistles through his teeth...and as we went on holidays a lot in the '70~80's, having a guy sitting beside you, reading a road map whistling the theme of F-Troop...constantly....it's enough to drive one mad! The thing is, he didn't know he was doing it!

Gracezilla06

October 13th, 2007, 5:06 pm

Well, I have 1 friend (that I love) that I have a big problem with. There are others, but I will not say anything for fear of them finding it and getting offended:

One of my friends always tries to make other people (me) look bad. Like, if I whispered something in her ear about something I saw on TV last night, she would say overly-loudly "GRAAAACE! STOOOP BEIIING MEEEEEAN!". People would stare at me and I would feel terrible, even though I never did anything. Then, afterwards when we're alone, she doesn't do anything like that. Weird much? It's just been making me like her less and less lately.

But seriously, that DID happen to me. I coudn't have possibly offended her because all I said was "ON TV last night, there was this thing--" and she just interrupted me. I still hang out with her sometimes, but I try to avoid her when we're in public places.

skrewtmaster

October 13th, 2007, 5:46 pm

I've got a friend who giggles after she swears. She doesn't realise she's doing it and it's quite sweet sometimes but what is really annoying is that she puts everything down to me 'being ginger'. grrrr!

Hysteria

October 13th, 2007, 6:37 pm

My boyfriend is a rather good hockey player (grass hockey) and its not so much an annoying habit but he always seems to forget that I know absolutely NOTHING about hockey. So he'll spend an hour or so on msn telling me about his games/state trials/practice/gear etc and he'll get really excited and go into great detail and I dont have the heart to tell him I hvae no idea what hes talking about most of the time :lol: but Im sure I do similar things (though probably not to the same extent).

Ickle_Aygul_L

October 14th, 2007, 2:04 pm

Wow... it seems like alot of people have friends that stretch the truth, the annoying habits of my one friend is just plain gross in my eyes, she loves eating bone marrow, in 7th grade we were eating lunch and she always brings these elaborite lunches from home, eats the chicken leg, cracks it in half and sucks the marrow out of it! It was plain gross!
But my other two friends love to fight and I havent figured out how to not appear as if on one side or another! It is so annoying!

magic_is_might

October 14th, 2007, 4:28 pm

And finally, the most annoying habit, one of my friends POKES REALLY HARD whenever she wants my attention. And it's not just one poke it's a series of painful jabs.

arrgh. yes, my best friend does that. or always have to say, 'thats just the blonde in u brit,' i can't stand that!!! Or whenever you have something to tell her, she always has some negative comment on it. Plus whenever we go to me house she always curses really loud, my mom would kill me if i cursed in front of her... and she knows that it annoys my mom, but she still does it...
love her to death,

known her for 7 years, but i have another friend, she came from brazil in the 6th grade and hardly knew english. i became her best friend an helped her get through the year. but my other friend hates her guts, so whenever im at her house i can't talk about her cause she'll go on a rant. So i couldn't even invite my brazilian friend to my party cause all my other friends can't satnd her cause 'she talk weird' (sha has an accent, but that is a stupid reason to 'hate her.'

but i don't even speak to my brazilian friend anymore because now she acts as if shes too good for me, i remember telling her what a 'snob' was because she didn't know the word, but know i'll use that word to define her....

sorry to go on and rant :cool: feels good to write it allll out :)

GiggleFuzz

November 3rd, 2007, 3:04 am

Well, one of my friends takes roleplaying much to seriously and acts all depressed bc of the peeps she met on it. I guess i cant say much since I don't roleplay. Another one of my friends never answers you when you call her name. I keep repeating it and repeating it. have to throw something at her to catch her attention. There's really not to much I have to say... my friends aren't that annoying.:cool:

ep300

November 4th, 2007, 3:19 am

i love my bff's to death but their really indecisive. we'll make plans and then they'll come up with another plan a little while later, and when it comes time to do it, they'll revise them again!

and they are both backseat drivers and it drives me insane to drive with them together!

sunshinehannah

November 8th, 2007, 7:32 pm

When you're trying to say something to them and they're on msn or texting and are just going "Hm, yeah" to you and not listening to a word you're saying!
When you're sitting with them and they start having a conversation in whispers and giggles and you ask them what they're talking about and they go 'Oh, nothing.' but in 'We-know-something-you-don't' sort of way. Urgg.

dobby999

November 27th, 2007, 5:39 am

one of my friends has a habit of saying "problem solved" at the end of like every sentence, and half the time the problem isn't even solved!!!

4ever

November 28th, 2007, 8:01 pm

when we were watching a movie she's suddenly starting to talk and tellin us exceting everything it annoys me sometimes sometimes cause i do it,too

mac_attack

December 18th, 2007, 6:46 am

Friend ranting time!

My best friend (I love her to death) has lately been getting on my nerves! She never has any time...she's always at work or hanging out with her other friends. But the thing that makes me mad is that she totally lies about it. She'll tell me she's so busy that she won't have time to hang out for like a week, and then I find out that she's just been going to parties with her other friends the whole time. And she's constantly with this guy who I don't think is good enough for her at all (the kid can't even use correct grammar, for goodness sake, how am I supposed to be ok with him dating my best friend?!). She's always with him, or talking about him, or whatever, but then she lies and is like "oh, I don't like him. He's way annoying! We don't even talk much anymore" when I know that they talk and hang out every day from what her other friends say. If she just didn't feel like hanging out with me anymore, yeah it would hurt my feelings, but I'd be happier that she was actually being straight with me instead of lying through her teeth!

Another friend lies constantly. She'll say things that are just so completely ridiculous, and everyone knows she's lying but she keeps going and going. She tells me these stories about her family that I know for a fact aren't true, since I've known her whole family for nearly 16 years. And I just think it's stupid because there's no reason at all for her to be telling the lies she does! Sometimes I think she's just a compulsive liar and can't help it, because of how often she does it.

My last rant is about one of my closest friends. He's so emo! I mean no offense to emo-loving people or anything, but he takes it way too far. He looks for reasons to not be happy. And he is determined to being me down with him into a miserable mood. He'll act miserable around Christmas time(and any other time) and when I say he should be happy, he responds with something like, "There's too much pain in my life. It's harder at Christmas because it just reminds me of what I don't have." It is SO frustrating to even try to have a conversation with him, because he does it ALL the time!! And he only does it with me...everyone else he talks to, he's smiling and joking around, or at the very least just being quiet. But with me, It's like I'm his constant go-to girl on everything miserable. I'm glad to be his shoulder to cry on (or more likely in his case, his person who listens to him complain and then gets ignored every other time), but it feels like that's all I am to him.
He also has this bad habit of having to one-up me on everything. I tell him that I hurt my finger, he tells me he broke his foot. I say I'm looking for a new job, he says if he doesn't find a new job by the end of the month he'll have to sell his car. I say I'm tired, he says he hasn't slept in 3 days. I say I have a lot of homework, he says he's been working 65-hour weeks. :grumble:
And I'm always his person to complain to and the one he expects to just listen and not judge or try to fix things or anything. But he won't do the same for me! I had a truly horrible day a while ago and called him to rant about it, and he just blew me off and basically told me I was making a huge deal out of nothing and to get over it. He makes me want to scream sometimes!!

:sigh: Ok, rant is over for now. This makes me feel a little better.

Satyagrahi

December 19th, 2007, 4:36 am

My best friend has a habit of calling me really hurtful names whenever I slip up. It really gets me down sometimes, but usually I can deal with it without any problems. My mom has a infection in her lungs right now, so I haven't been able to add onto a novel that I'm trying to write. She knows about the novel, and consistantly demands that I work on it, even though I'm swamped at home, trying to balance homework and tending to my mother's every need. When I tell her I haven't made any progress, she starts going off on me and treating me like doo doo. . . . But I guess I love her no matter what. She's my buddy :]

And as far as my other friends go, most of them have this really bad tendancy to act as though them and I have known one another forever. They tell me they love me, get really nosey, etc.

-sigh- Yep.

LBuccalo

December 19th, 2007, 2:56 pm

One of my friends makes up the most unbelievable stories. He is a major one upper and his stories are so crazy. It makes me wonder why you would lie about the stuff he does, its so random. For instance he claimed to be an alcoholic at age 7 and that his parents sent him to rehab, when I met his parents and we talked and I asked about him in rehab they were like what are you talking about. They were totally confused. He said later that they just don't like to talk about it. Or once he told me that he ran into a McDonalds and decided to pee all over the store and everyone just laughed. I was like whatever. It is so dumb.

I also hate insincerity, it annoys me so much. If you can't be genuine you might as well not say anything because it is so obvious.

One of my friends is both my friend and my soon to be ex husband's friend and he has a habit of running and telling us what the other person has said, and the thing is most of the time when my ex hears what I have said I haven't said it at all. IT is so stupid.

opaleye

December 22nd, 2007, 2:28 am

She constantly mispronounces words, not that I'm an English major or anything, but we can't get through a conversation without one or two wrong words. I've only corrected her once or twice because if I do she starts calling me Hermione.

Montse

December 22nd, 2007, 2:31 am

to ask about homeworks the day before they are due...at midnight!!!

Satyagrahi

December 22nd, 2007, 7:48 pm

One of my friends makes up the most unbelievable stories. He is a major one upper and his stories are so crazy. It makes me wonder why you would lie about the stuff he does, its so random. For instance he claimed to be an alcoholic at age 7 and that his parents sent him to rehab, when I met his parents and we talked and I asked about him in rehab they were like what are you talking about. They were totally confused. He said later that they just don't like to talk about it. Or once he told me that he ran into a McDonalds and decided to pee all over the store and everyone just laughed. I was like whatever. It is so dumb.

Holy cow, that sounds exactly like a friend of mine. She's only 15-16, and she's claimed to have been engaged, pregnant, molested by her gym teacher at age 8, have had surgery and then the next day come to school completely healed, been on horse steroids, been to rehab/a mental intitution, has claimed more than "a few" relationships with people that have said to have never met her, to live in a hotel with 18 siblings and an abusive mother. I don't know, maybe she is telling the truth. I don't personally believe it, though. . . . http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies/confused/confused0008.gif Does that make me a neglectant friend?

P.S.: I don't know who that is in your signature photo, but she has a gorgeous face. The baby is adorable,too.

sticky

December 22nd, 2007, 9:58 pm

my friends have developed a new habit that is really really annoying me...i just ignore them now when they do it..i can't stand it. I made a new friend a while back..and he's a boy...and we're only friends, talk in frees in college and such like as people do...and yet they seem to think i have a crush on him.....whenever i talk to him it's 'ohhhi can tell you like him' or 'stop flirting'..its just so irritating....one fo them even went as far as ot email me once when i was with him at the time saying 'you really like him'...i was sooo embarrassed i just deleted it and pretended he hadn't seen it either....sigh...i love them to death but its like i can't be friends with the opposite sex without having to like them....and yet when i do it to them in a joky way they will hate it...okay rant over :lol:

8m57w6

December 22nd, 2007, 10:11 pm

Yeah, my friends did that for a while, too. Back in 8th grade, near the end of the year, a friend of mine, a guy, and I started hanging out together more, and became like, best friends. Well on the class trip, we spent pretty much the whole day together and such. In the past, I had a crush on him, but I'd gotten over it about two years ago. But anyway, we were just hanging out as friends and such, but then my two other really good friends, at one point when he was talking to other people, pull me away and start whispering "Oh my god, do you like, like him again?" *giggle* I love them both, but they had really annoying laughs. So then after that, I was walking somewhere with him, and they started whispering and glancing at us, so I turned around and shouted at them, even though my friend was right there "God! I don't like him like that, o.k??" All three of them looked pretty embarassed, and I was a bit, too, but at least they stopped after that.

sticky

December 22nd, 2007, 10:15 pm

gosh, i'm hoping it will stop soon though, i might just have to do something like that for them to get the picture :lol:
also one fo my friends has a habit of having to match people up with boys :rolleyes: she won't rest until she finds someone for everyone...sigh it gets tiring of repeating the same line: 'No Briony i don't want to be matched up with someone right now.' she just doesn't get it :lol: bless her,

8m57w6

December 22nd, 2007, 10:17 pm

Oh you would not believe how many of my friends have decided I need a boyfriend, and then set out in search of one. I'm serious, at least 4 of them since I started High School. All of then gave up pretty shortly after, though. Apparently I'm hopeless. :rolleyes:

RupertTrisler

December 26th, 2007, 3:30 am

When they steal food off my plate.. Makes me angry! =]

LBuccalo

December 28th, 2007, 2:32 am

Does that make me a neglectant friend?

P.S.: I don't know who that is in your signature photo, but she has a gorgeous face. The baby is adorable,too.

Nah I am the smae way I take it all will a grain of salt but inside I am thinking how the heck does he expect me to believe that.

PS Thanks about my sig, that was me and my youngest son, my oldest son got jealous so I had to change it lol

Weazleby

December 28th, 2007, 7:06 pm

Saying "I don't care" when I ask them something like, say, "where do you want to go for dinner?" or "what movie do you want to rent tonight?" or even "what do you want to do tonight?". Very annoying, since I am the one who is driving most of the time.

But I still love them. : )

hermione_angel

December 29th, 2007, 5:31 am

I have a friend who has rung me almost every single day for the past two years, and not to sound really ungrateful or anything, but I wish she'd stop calling me just to tell me really trivial things. She rings me just to say something like, "I saw a cat chasing another cat today" or "I bought a new nail varnish. It's red." I know she's probably just bored and trying to initiate a decent conversation, but she doesn't leave me with much to work with. :rolleyes: Sometimes we're both silent for a while, trying hard to think of something else to talk about and I'm sure we wouldn't have that problem if she didn't ring me so often. My family thinks it's hilarious because I groan whenever the phone rings and I have to drag myself to it. Then again, on the plus side, at least I won't ever have to question her loyalty...

In any case, the friend I just described is no way near as bad as a friend I used to have in secondary school. We started of as good friends. She was really sweet and bubbly. Unfortunately, when she realised that I was the best athlete out of all the girls in my year, she got competitive. She became my rival all of a sudden and we'd push ourselves to the absolute limit in trying to outdo each other. None of the other girls in our year group made as much of an effort as the two of us did. Even when we did cross country, all the other girls would pace themselves and run at a steady pace, but my friend and I would sprint the whole way. As well as athletics, I wanted to stay at the top of the class in terms of academics. Although we were in different houses and all students were always fishing for house points, my friend and I would just try to achieve A's in everything just so we could prove that we were smarter than the other. Then, when I got my first boyfriend, she went and got one as well. Really, it was completely stupid and I don't know why she got so competitive against me all of a sudden. In a strange way she brought out the best and worst in me. I've never really forgiven her for trying to outdo me for no apparent reason other than to declare herself the better person or something.

soxy_luvsharry

January 1st, 2008, 11:45 pm

Im pretty sure the only trully annoying things that bug me...
is when my friends talk about something....
and when i ask them about it... they try to play it off.
like they never actually said anything.:grumble:

and the whole lying thing.
it BUGS me.
lying in general is no fun.
its pretty hard to get out of it...
so i usually always catch them. :lol:

Lady_Luthien

January 2nd, 2008, 5:04 pm

I live with a girl who's a compulsive liar, she lies about everything! You can tell she lies too yet she doesn't stop doing it! I have another friend who professes to know alot about certain topics and talks loudly about things, i was in the Disney Store with her just before Christmas and she started singing songs from High School musical at the top of her voice and then when we were in the queue she was talking very loudly about it, telling me everything about it that she knew... and you know when you get the feeling that someones talking to you just so other people can hear them...well thats the feeling i got from her, its very annoying she does it ALL the time. She's a great friend but that's the one thing that annoys me about her.

sticky

January 10th, 2008, 7:15 pm

not being able to make a decision!! okay i'm going to have a rant here, i feel so annoyed about this.
Me and two friends were going to see 30 seconds to mars in feb in Birmmingham...and i've been planning it for months...train tickets, etc. The only thing that has stopped us getting the tickets since like November is one of those friends who i kept asking is she free that weekend and she kep replying: 'umm probably' i have asked her weeks and weeks on end, fearful that tickets would sell out before i got to get one. i have been checking everyday to make sure tickets haven't been sold out, i can't reserve tickets because it isn't fair on others who want to buy them and actually know they are definately going. sigh....i still haven't got a yes or no from my friend, so today i did my daily check that they weren't sold out...and guess what??....they're sold out :upset: i've been waiting for this for months....and i couldn't get my tickets and not hers cos she would have gotten in a stress with me, also i couldn't have bought the tickets for us all cos then she would have told me she couldn't go because of her cadets or something...sigh i really wanted to go to this and am really upset...:no:

chaibabachai

January 12th, 2008, 1:55 am

but I wish she'd stop calling me just to tell me really trivial things. She rings me just to say something like, "I saw a cat chasing another cat today"

that might be the funniest thing I have ever heard. :lol:

I have a few things that bother me about my friends. they're great, but they can be a bit of a pain sometimes. ;)

One friend constantly invades my personal space. I don't mind someone standing close to me, but there is a point when I just feel tense if people are too close when there's plenty of room all around. And then whenever I take a step away she usually takes a step close again. As if when I moved over that meant she needed to too. ughhhhhhh.

One of the most annoying things to me is when we go to the movies. one friend likes to talk loudly throughout them. usually it has to do with what's going on, but she basically narrates what's happening on the screen or says things like "he's so stupid! why is ho doing that!?" also answering their cell phone just to tell whoever it is that they can't talk because they're watching a movie. that's soooooooooooooooooooo annoying!! how hard is it to just not answer? you're not gunna talk anyways! :grumble:

Also friends who use you. for example one of my friends moved away a few years ago and we ended up losing touch. at most we would talk on very rare occasions online for a couple of minutes. though whenever her family was going to come back to town to visit, she would call me to see if she could stay at my house for a day or two because she didn't want to stay with her family. that's fine, but it started to bother me when I noticed that the only time she'd get in touch with me(call me) was when there happened to be a chance her family was gunna come into town. she'd call and make small talk until she finally brought up that she was thinking of coming to visit and wondering if she could stay with me. I know that sounds reasonable, but I really felt used. as soon as she would leave she wouldn't call again or talk online until she needed to. and whenever it was not really possible to have her come stay because of having to work on those days, or having other people in the house, she wouldn't understand that and still push to stay anyways. I mean it's not like she had nowhere to stay, she just didn't want to stay with her family. I really hated being used.

ok that's enough lol. there are a few other small things but those are the main ones that really bug me.

i've been waiting for this for months....and i couldn't get my tickets and not hers cos she would have gotten in a stress with me, also i couldn't have bought the tickets for us all cos then she would have told me she couldn't go because of her cadets or something...sigh i really wanted to go to this and am really upset...:no:

I know how you feel, that's happened to me before. but if I were you I would have just told her that I am going to buy tickets on _______(certain date) and if she wants to come she's going to need to tell me by then because I don't want to miss out on the tickets.
especially if that sort of thing happens again with them because you can just tell them that you really want to just get the tickets now because you were really upset when the other show sold out last time and you don't want it to happen again.

I know that might all sound kinda harsh, so re-word as you wish :) but sometimes people need to know that you can't just wait for them to tell you whenever they feel like it because then no one gets to go. I've missed out on lots of things because I was waiting for someone to tell me if they could or couldn't do it and it sucks. I'm a pretty shy/quiet person, but I've started to kinda lay down the facts for people if there's something I really want to do because like I said, then everyone misses out AND it'll usually keep happening.

sticky

January 12th, 2008, 1:09 pm

I know how you feel, that's happened to me before. but if I were you I would have just told her that I am going to buy tickets on _______(certain date) and if she wants to come she's going to need to tell me by then because I don't want to miss out on the tickets.
especially if that sort of thing happens again with them because you can just tell them that you really want to just get the tickets now because you were really upset when the other show sold out last time and you don't want it to happen again.

I know that might all sound kinda harsh, so re-word as you wish :) but sometimes people need to know that you can't just wait for them to tell you whenever they feel like it because then no one gets to go. I've missed out on lots of things because I was waiting for someone to tell me if they could or couldn't do it and it sucks. I'm a pretty shy/quiet person, but I've started to kinda lay down the facts for people if there's something I really want to do because like I said, then everyone misses out AND it'll usually keep happening.

yeah, that is exactly what i am going to do next time!!!! thanks!! :D
and i know what you mean about people (friends) invading your private space!!! My friends do it all the time and i hate people too close ot me and touching me....but now i have taken to shouting : get out my personal bubble!!!' everytime they get too close....i do it to my family too :lol: or i'll shout: PS!!!' which stands for Personal space :lol:

Lady_Luthien

January 12th, 2008, 2:07 pm

I don't understand why people have to stand SO CLOSE! I've known a few people that do that and they're usually teachers or people i work with, it makes everyone really uncomfortable.. it's not like they can't hear you!! I have often wanted to ask .. politely why people feel the need to stand so close... i wonder why it is..

sticky

January 12th, 2008, 3:50 pm

^^ i don't understand it either...and i've given up being polite :lol: as i said above..i just shout and tell them...not rudely but i tell them to back off :lol: for me its gotten to the point where is can't breathe properly when someone is too close....:rolleyes: my friend has an annoying habit of wanting to hug everyone....i don't like it :lol:

chaibabachai

January 13th, 2008, 6:47 am

I hate when she stands so close but at the same time it kinda makes me laugh that she just DOES NOT get that when I move over it's because I need more room!!

when I do say something about my bubble or personal space to people they just laugh because they think I'm joking for some reason. argh. lol
I just can't bring myself to yell at them though.

Hysteria

January 13th, 2008, 7:31 am

I have another friend who professes to know alot about certain topics and talks loudly about things, i was in the Disney Store with her just before Christmas and she started singing songs from High School musical at the top of her voice and then when we were in the queue she was talking very loudly about it, telling me everything about it that she knew... and you know when you get the feeling that someones talking to you just so other people can hear them...well thats the feeling i got from her, its very annoying she does it ALL the time. She's a great friend but that's the one thing that annoys me about her.

I know it must suck but that High School Musical thing cracked me up :lol: I have a friend who does that sometimes and its very embarrassing. She sometimes randomly breaks out into song (like if she says "do you know this song? *sing sing sing*" in public!) or she just says stuff like "oh I dont want a boyfriend" reeeeally loudly. I dont get why.

Taterpeel

January 13th, 2008, 10:15 am

I really do not like when 'friends' make stabbing comments that are meant to be subtle. They are subtle, in the way that if someone tries to point them out.. they have nothing to truly base it on, because this 'friend' could simply say, "Well, you just heard my tone wrong."

And that may be the case sometimes, but sometimes it is obvious it is not.

sticky

January 17th, 2008, 10:26 pm

my friends at the moment are being really irritating :lol: basically they know soemthign i don't which in a way is actually quite scary..i am terrified as to what it is. I know it has somethign to do with a boy at my college....but they are being really secretive with him about something...i have an idea as to what it is, they have dropped as few hints to irritate me :lol: but they'll be talking and i'll join them and they'll go silent....they always make soemthing up when i ask where they have been when they were meant to meet me or when they were just talking about me :lol:.....

AliceFO

January 20th, 2008, 12:25 am

imacheeto

January 20th, 2008, 4:32 pm

flexin his muscles and rapping. it wouldn't be as bad if he were black. I call him a wankster (white gangsta)

LBuccalo

January 21st, 2008, 1:59 am

I call him a wankster (white gangsta)

:rotfl: I used to call my guy friends that all the time :lol:

sllagnire

January 21st, 2008, 3:08 am

One of my friends will tell a story, and they always take AGES. So that by the end you don't even know what the hell she was talking about in the first place because you're so bored by the pointless rambling, haha!

I have a friend that does that! He is the absolute worst storyteller ever. He once ended a story with "And then he went, ::sucks in air:: "ahhhhh...."" No point whatsoever. Terrible.:grumble:

permafrost

January 21st, 2008, 4:21 am

One of my friends always asks me if I've got the gigantic assignment (there's always one) done that's due in two weeks or something. I always get really mad, actually, and just say "NO!"

crookshanks16

February 17th, 2008, 2:08 am

I have one friend that always picks the loose hairs off the back of my shirt. It's annoying and it makes me uncomfertable sometimes.

Nessa_Fefalas

February 19th, 2008, 9:30 pm

One of my friends always slirps is drink, no matter what he's drinking it out of (straw, cup, can, bottle).
Another always says, "It's no big deal," or, "This may be silly," whenever she asks us to do something with her, plus she uses too much soap when she washes dishes.
Another one of my friends plays coy and innocent when he asks silly questions that he can easily look up and get the answer to. He also tries to 'incognito' about his love interests, and he'll promptly talk to every other person about it and expect people to stay quiet about it.
Another one of my friends will swear up and down that he'll be here at such and such time and shows up an hour or two later (we've stopped waiting up for him).

I think I'll stop there. ^_^;

angelfaith

February 20th, 2008, 1:09 am

I have a friend who is a story topper. Her story is always a bit better than everyone elses. Though it was really funny when she met my uncle, who is also a story topper. The two of them were going on for ages.
Also, whenever we go to the movies or to buy tickets for something, without fail, even though she knows what we're going to see, when we get to the counter she turns to me and says "what are we seeing again?". Drives me absolutely nuts

gipro2003

February 20th, 2008, 1:36 am

For several years, I was this tiny 4 and half foot 50 pound girl (up until I was 12 or 13) and my friends seriously would treat me like a baby. They would constantly pick me up or carry things for me like I was incapable of doing anything. It really annoyed me to no end.

Also, up until I graduated a year early, they always wanted to copy my homework. That was the most bothersome thing ever. I always played the "I havent finished it either" thing.

Velcra

February 21st, 2008, 9:39 pm

They have an annoying habit to be too addicted to My Chemical ROmance :p

Dandinigirl13

March 16th, 2008, 12:57 am

One of my mates calls himself fat constantly, I've given up trying to persuade him he's not. I just go along with it! :lol: He's still a great friend, though!

PureBloodGirl

April 16th, 2008, 8:02 pm

My friend is constantly talking on her cell phone to her boyfriend Fabein. It's so annoying!!! Then my other friend always skips hanging out with us because she has all of this Mexican Novellas that she love to watch. I mean some of them are actually pretty cool like Lola or Rebelde, but others I don't get why she watches them. It's strange.

doeeyes8

April 28th, 2008, 6:26 pm

Hmm..My friend will always do something. It's either to annoy me or to amuse me. But sometimes, It's more of annoying than amusing. Sometimes, they're even getting too personal. I don't ever want us fighting, but I hope we could avoid this. And when they tease me with someone I like, they would really mention the name which is so embarrasing.

Leafpool

May 2nd, 2008, 4:35 am

I have this friend who calls me almost everyday. But unlike my others friends, she's hard to talk to as we don't have much in common. She always sounds so happy and goes, "I just wanted to call and say Hi!" "Your my friend, so I wanted to say Hi!" It kinda annoys me. I feel bad, but I like having my own time, so it gets annoying having to be interrupted and have to go to the phone. They also ask a lot if I can hang out, but I always have considered my weekends my times to relax. I like to hang out with my friends, don't get me wrong, but some weeks I just want to be alone and read, write, or go for a nice walk. I need my personal space sometimes. I've always been a little bit of a loner. Of course, don't get me wrong, I LOVE being with my friends. But I also enjoy being alone to. I have friends who understand and feel the same way. Others don't understand as much, and always seem to want to do something and I can tell they hate being alone because they always seem so upset if they didn't do something with a friend for awhile. That's the difference. I LOVE being with my friends, but I don't need to all the time to be content and happy. Anyone else feel this way?