Things I can't stand

by Cristian
(Iasi, Romania)

As a person I am usually very calm and together but there are a few thing that I really can not stand. Some of them are strange and others are things i suppose nobody likes.

One of the things that makes me snap almost every time is when somebody taps me on the shoulder to get my attention more than necessary. I guess this makes me so angry because when I was a boy my mom would do that and wouldn't stop even after it was obvious that I was listening.

Another thing I don't like is when someone listens to the same song over and over again and I am forced to do so as well. For some strange reason I can't listen to the same song more than three times in a row no matter how much i like it.

One of the things that really drives me crazy is when people try to seem like something they're not. One good example is when someone quits smoking and a few weeks after starts pretending that they can't understand why anyone would ever have such a disgusting habit. I am a smoker myself, and I am not particularly proud of it and I am always happy for someone who manages to quit, but like any other smoker I don't like it when someone starts lecturing me as if I didn't know it was harmful. This even worse when the person doing the lecturing was smoking himself just a few weeks ago and now they are all self righteous and feel that they are better than me because I have such a dangerous nasty habit and they don't.

One of the worse things however is when someone I thought was my friend starts to think for one reason or another that they are now too good to spend time with me. As a person I never try to impress when it isn't necessary. I don't like to dress up flashy. I don't care about having any of the latest gadgets or instantly buying a new album just because everyone else likes it. However I have never felt I was any better than anyone else no matter how poor, smelly, ugly or dumb the other person was. If anything I just felt luckier. So I really don't like it when someone thinks that they are now too "cool" to be seen with me just because they have some new friends who are always up to date with all the new trends and spend a lot of money in clubs.

Well these are the things that drive me crazy, or at least the ones that I can think of right now.