Annoying People....

The conversation started with a simple "How are you, how was your weekend?" over a limited office version of MSN (damn annoying proxy). Two minutes into the conversation, I found myself gossiping about another coworker with my buddy (another coworker). For the sake "privacy", lets just give these people an alias. Ok, its set, we will call my buddy Elaine, and the subject of our conversation as Kelvin.

In all honesty, I never pay much attention to Kelvin's behavior, probably because he never did a good job annoying me. Elaine on the other hand, was fairly annoyed by Kelvin's behavior. I guess our behavior is probably just as annoying, I mean, if anyone is to find out about this conversation, they will probably find us just as annoying. But, who gives a damn? Its over MSN, the only person that may find out is that COOP student that get paid eight dollars an hour to monitor network traffic. Even then, whats the odd of him being bored enough to look at one conversation thread over a building of 5000+ users?

Anyways, so how did Kelvin pissed Elaine off so much? One of the things is his body gesture. Kelvin is not a bad person, but he tries just a bit too hard to act friendly with people around him, regardless of men or women! He would come and give you a "friendly tap" every now and then, the way he does it is no different from how I would treat my close friends... keyword.. CLOSE FRIENDS.....

Another thing is Kelvin's eagerness to learn each everything about you. The term "Privacy" means nothing to him. For some odd reason, his eyes are more attracted to the content on your Windows desktop than your face when he is talking to you. I never really notice this one (I did with the body gesture), Elaine pointed this out. Its hilarious, little less than two hours after our "Conversation", Kelvin came by my desk,. Something happened that day, so I was writing a long @$$ email barking down on my staff. Kelvin stood behind me the whole time reading what I was writing until I was done and click on send. Maybe next time I should just ask him "How should I write this email"

One of the thing that really ticked me off is how stingy this dude gets. I am not going to get into the details, but bottom line is, he is stingy to the pennies, I don't even remember when was the last time he paid for anything when we go out for drinks or lunch or dinner. Even for his own share! Its always really convenient for him to say "I don't have money on me, pay for it first, I will pay you back in a bit"

Another one is his genuine ability to put people down. Elaine seems to think that he did that to make himself looks (or sound) better than others. One comment he made was "My degree was more difficult than yours. What you've got is nothing". OUCH... but hey, whatever, I take what he said with a grain of salt anyways.

On top of these three more significant traits, he also have some "side" behaviors that trigger people off. Am I just someone who doesn't care about others enough to feel their existence (or annoyance)? Or Am I just oblivious to everything around me?

For all you annoying bastard out there. Think about what you are doing and how it will affect the others.....