WAYS TO ANNOY SOMEONE...

I chose the following topic as an entry for a blogging competition I had in my college festival "PURPLE '10" .

The results of the competition  is as yet unknown,& am hoping to get to know it soon,but thanks to my friends help,am pretty sure i'll win it..:)

Here's the link to the original post:

http://www.bindass.com/post/ways-to-annoy-some-one/

So read on & if you like it,click on the tab "bindass" at the top left corner on the above link.

thnxx!:)

Annoying people is really easy. Seriously, am not kidding. You all must have done it at some point in your life, whether it was when you were a kid & you used to do it just for fun or when you have grown up,all matured & just want some sadistic pleasure in life. Believe me, if i can do it, anyone can. And I must say, I have a hell lot of experience in it (in other words am just saying that am pretty good at it, so its better to remain in my good books :p).

Some people just love getting under other people’s skin. It just makes their day. And in most cases, it makes other people’s day too, because, well ultimately at the end of the day everyone loves a good laugh,& especially if it’s at someone else’s expense ;) Also with the stress filled work environment nowadays, a little fun doesn't hurt.
Its easy to laugh at others, but its always better to be on the lookout, lest you might be the next person to be targeted!

As with everything in life, there are as many different ways to annoy people as there are, well, people. Any tiny, insignificant thing can turn out to be just as irritating as major annoyances.
Ever wonder if your little quirks or big pet peeves annoy everyone around you?

As you all have heard time & again "laughter is the best medecine".  I have always taken this little quote to my heart. Maybe a bit too much :p
Being the perpetrator for other people’s grievances & a victim of others in some cases, I with the help of my friends have compiled a list of a few classic ways to annoy people. 

Read on..

1)One of the most common & sureshot ways to annoy a person is just repeating whatever the person says. 100 % success rate! Downside is that the victim might be of a resilient kind & not respond at all, so you might be the one to get annoyed in the end if such a thing happens!

2)Laugh. You can do one of two things with laughter. You can laugh at EVERYTHING that comes out of someone’s mouth, or if someone thinks they are hilarious, you laugh at nothing. Example: My cat died last night.HAHAHAHAHA. It annoys that person and maybe if you’re lucky annoys them to the point of tears. Meanwhile, the wannabe clown will hate you if you totally ignore his attempts at comedy.

3)Ask lame questions when a serious discussion is going on or answer every question with a question. Example: What do I mean? You don’t know what I mean? Are you sure? Are you kidding me? Know what I mean?
Or interrupt someone talking to you and ask, “Do you hear that?” When they ask “What?” quickly say, “Never mind, it’s gone now.” See how many times you can do this in a conversation.

4)Always be late and expect your friends to wait for you. Better yet, offer to drive and then be late. That way, your friends can’t leave without you ;)

5)Stare at a person continuously & then look away suddenly when the person catches you staring at them. The person either thinks that you are checking them out, or they start wondering if there’s somethng wrong with their hair or outfit :p

6)Always “one up” everyone. If your friend has met Shahid Kapoor, then tell her about the time you met Sonia Gandhi. If your classmate wins a scholarship, mention that you’ve won five scholarships and a grant. If your sister was up all night with a bad cold, then make sure she knows you haven’t slept in three years due to a herniated septum. And throw in your bad back, too, just for good measure.

7)An age old way is to press all the buttons of the elevator before exiting. Whoever steps in the elevator next has to go through hell! Am a victim of these sometimes. Sigh, who said kids are angels?! :| :p

8)Another classic method, ring doorbells & run away. My friends still do it..they ring my doorbell & run..& I run with them ;)

9)One of the most annoying things in existence right now is chain messaging. The ones that say, “If you want to please so & so God or if you want to pass your exams or if you want to date your crush,forward this message to 10 people & you will get what you want”. yeah right! All you get is a big phone bill! such messages sure as hell irritate a lot, but the fun part is when people actually believe them! ;)

10)With the era of social networking namely facebooking, the concept of mass annoyance has come into existence. All you need to do is join as many lame groups & become a fan of as many pages as possible. For good measure answer stupid questions about people on your list you hardly know, compare them with others & send them hugs, smiles & all other useless things. In short flood their wall & notifications. This is one of the most annoying things that you can do. I should know since I am experiencing it currently, & once upon a time even led the brigade!

These were just a few most annoying ways out of thousands of others. Feel free to comment or better yet add to the list :)

P.S. Many thanks to Sahib & kawshi for helping me with the research of this topic. Couldn't have done this one without you guys!:) 

Attaining Wisdom!

How to console a friend who's just lost someone close? This question has been going on in my mind since some time now..


Ever since I developed some brains, I have had problems relating to people at an emotional level. So recently I found myself in a dilemma when my best friend lost her uncle who was a father figure in her life.
I seriously don't get the whole "consoling your friend" part. Especially when anything you say triggers tears in the said friend. As it is I hate talking on the phone, now talking to her became similar to giving an exam in which you are sure you aren't going to pass,& there's no cheating to save you. My conversations with her would be somewhat like this,
Me: Hey don't think about it too much. It's going to be okay.
To which I would get a weird silence & a sniffling sound from her end. 
And I'd say: Hey are you crying? (hoping very much that she isn't & wondering what to say next if she is).
To which I'd get a reply: manju I'll talk to you later.
& she'd cut the phone, relieving me from the responsibilty of consoling her.
I have wasted countless hours thinking upon a solution. I even called up mutual friends asking them what am supposed to do in such a case. And all of them gave the same replies. The tried and tested methods, "don't mention anything that will make her remember her uncle", "don't act too happy in front of her", "dont ask insensitive things to her" & so on and so forth. With all this in mind, talking to my friend felt like testing a mine field..one wrong move & you are gone..! 
Also, since i did develop some brains while growing up afterall, you can believe that i do have the social sense of a normal human being, even though it might seem otherwise. So all these were things that were already known to me & I was already taking care of them. What actually bothered me was how to get my friend back to normal, without making her cry atleast once during my pathetically small conversation with her. How to get a smile on that pretty face of hers? How to get her back to her normal bubbly self?


Right from childhood, when I would cry after falling down, or scraping my knees bad on crashing my cycle, or cry when i got some other injury, whether it be physical or emotional, my best friend was always there for me. She knew just what to say that would make everything feel right to me. A hug & a few soothing words & I'd stop crying, & believe me, I regret to say it  but sadly its true, I was an awful crybaby in my past(thankfully). But it had always been really easy to console me or atleast my friend knew how to do it. But its right the opposite with her. As it is, my whole childhood went in her consoling & supporting me as she was the mature & elder one & so I never got much of a chance to do the same for her. And now when I had a chance, I found out that i really sucked at such things. I kept thinking that am letting her down & that didnt help. In addition to that, fate transpired against us. She was so busy with performing the last rites that she was hardly staying at her home, & I was so busy with my college & classes stuff & coming home so late that it was impossible for me to visit her at her place. By the end I was really desperate to get even a small smile on her face, to get her resembling to something normal, & I was ready to do anything for it.


So when she called me to her place the next weekend I grabbed at the chance even though I hadn't had my bath till then (on weekends I don't bath in the mornings unless I have to go out :P & I hope she never reads this part :p). At first talking to her was a bit awkward, I still wasn't sure how sensitive she was, whether she was crying or thinking on it & so on. But thankfully I didnt have to worry or work much at consling her. I was testing dangerous waters here, but right after the first few awkward moments, everything started feeling normal. She started talking about her cousins, how they were reacting to it, & I for once surprisingly made the right sympathetic comments at exactly the right moments. From there she went on  talking normally, like the chatterbox she actually is, about what she had been upto in the past few days, how her friends were reacting to it, the insensitive albiet funny incidents & so on. We even managed to get the topic of guys in there somewhere & I even came to know about her latest crush somehow. Don't ask me how we got there, even am confused & wonderously surprised about how the conversation ended up the way it did. But whatever it was, it made me happy & relieved to see my best friend happy & finally smiling & to know that I caused it to happen in someway :) 


So ultimately consoling a friend isn't really hard, you just have to be yourself & your friend will catch on it. Though ofcourse being too happy in front of someone in mourning will be the height of insensitivity, but your friend needs a dose of normalcy, so instead of consoling them like everyone else has been doing, its wiser to just be yourself with them, its wiser to be normal. Atleast that's what I learned in the end :)