# Is my eye contact creepy? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 8, 2012, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-eye-contact-creepy/612166 "2012-02-08T05:35:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![SCSimmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-eye-contact-creepy/612166/41 "2012-02-10T23:31:30Z")
> [@Napoleon\_Dynamite](#): > > I definitely don’t want to hang out with the drama kids. They’re douchebags. Huh. Are you saying that because the drama kids at your old school were douchebags and you’re assuming drama kids are the same everywhere? Because someone you trust at your new school has told you that the drama kids there are douchebags? Or have you actually met some/most of them and gotten a bad impression? ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2012, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-eye-contact-creepy/612166/42 "2012-02-11T00:09:55Z")
Going to move this to IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Napoleon\_Dynamite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/43a26b/32.png) [@Napoleon\_Dynamite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napoleon_Dynamite)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2012, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-eye-contact-creepy/612166/43 "2012-02-11T06:47:03Z")
C. was at school today. I asked her why she wasn’t at school yesterday and she said it was because she started her period. Uh, starting my period never prevents me from coming to school. I was pretty confused and I asked her if she just had bad cramps or something and didn’t feel like coming. She said that she can never come to school the first day of her period because that’s the day she bleeds the heaviest. I was like, “yeah, so?” So she goes into great detail about how she rarely wears feminine products while on her period because she feels it’s “unnatural.” Is natural letting your vaginal blood flow willy-nilly? That’s abnormal. > [@madmonk28](#): > > It is an incredibly bad idea because the chance of negative consequences far, far, exceed any potential benefit. That is the very definition of a bad idea. You run the risk of a) offending your listener; b) offending a passerby; c) all of the above. In your mind, what would be a positive outcome of your plan? The positive outcome would be me being able to say ‘nigga’ and fitting right in with everybody else. I’ve explained this. I repeat again, I would not say it to a random black person. > [@Hello\_Again](#): > > I don’t understand why you are so adverse to joining an activity. If you won’t do something through school, take art classes or join a gaming group or something outside of school. You need to meet some new people. Because I don’t like activities, especially not school activities. I’m not interested in an art class, either. I definitely don’t want to be in a gaming group. Activities are not my forte. I was sent to a summer camp in eighth grade. I thought I was going to die. Way too many activities. > [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > As for the accent think, don’t let them do it to you! Your southern accent is a lovely thing, and if you lose it, you’ll be sad one day. If you’re around a bunch of provincial bigots now, just know that you won’t always be around them. I don’t want to lose my southern accent. I would just like to tone it down a bit enough to where I’m not having people constantly ask me to repeat myself. I love my accent and I know a lot of other people like it too. > [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > As for paragraphs, I insist my third-graders use them. If teachers aren’t taking you seriously, maybe there’s a legitimate reason for that, if you’re not doing things that third graders ought to be doing. Paragraphs are there for a reason: it makes it far easier for the reader to digest your ideas and organize them in their own heads. If you don’t care enough about folks understanding your ideas to make it easy on them, why would you expect others to care enough to struggle through reading them? Teachers don’t take my seriously because I sound stupid. I typically talk with great grammar other than saying ‘y’all’ and sometimes ‘ain’t.’ I’m aware of how to paragraph, I just didn’t think it was _that_ necessary for my original post. Obviously, I was wrong. I haven’t done much school work involving lots of writing since I’ve moved here, so I know my paragraphing isn’t why they’re not taking me seriously. I also feel like my teachers are stupid and that I’m better than them. I try not to show it but it’s rather difficult when I know I could teach the class far better than they can. > [@SCSimmons](#): > > Huh. Are you saying that because the drama kids at your old school were douchebags and you’re assuming drama kids are the same everywhere? No. I’m saying that the few drama students at my new school are a couple of white kids that are definitely douchebags. Then the rest of the drama students are black kids that aren’t accepted by the other black students. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2012, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-eye-contact-creepy/612166/44 "2012-02-11T12:44:20Z")
**Napoleon** , nothing in your last post suggests that you’d be all that great to hang around with. You’re probably a groovy girl, but I’m not hip to the juvenile arrogance thing (which makes you sound like you’d be a perfect drama kid, by the way). And you should probably decide if you want to be C’s friend or not. It sounds like C. is eccentric. Does that appeal to you? If not, maybe it’s best for you two not to be friends. She certainly doesn’t need another person rolling her eyes at her. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2012, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-eye-contact-creepy/612166/45 "2012-02-11T19:14:03Z")
> [@Napoleon\_Dynamite](#): > > C. wasn’t at school today. She doesn’t have a cell phone so I can’t call or text her. I didn’t drop by her house because that would be **creepy** if I just dropped in unexpectedly. (bolding mine) Creepy? Really? _Creepy?!_ I think it would just be showing some genuine concern for a friend, I don’t think it would be a sign of creepiness. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2012, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-eye-contact-creepy/612166/46 "2012-02-11T20:27:31Z")
See what I mean? It’s become the most overused and abused word of this generation. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-eye-contact-creepy/612166.md?page=2)