# What's wrong with some people? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 17, 2014, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-some-people/701549 "2014-10-17T00:29:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-some-people/701549/121 "2014-10-22T04:07:26Z")
> [@](#): > > What’s wrong with some people? From the evidence in this thread: entitlement. The assumption that my needs or wants override those of the many. That whatever I hang my ‘precious snowflake’ hat on, the world needs to accommodate without questioning. The thought that ‘I am out of step with the world, which I’m fine with but understand I will have to make allowances for the majority who aren’t’ seems to have more or less disappeared in the western world. The fact you have chosen to inhabit, to live by, to define yourself by this difference precisely because it makes you special does not seem to imbue you with any sensibility that you are the one who needs to understand that the world isn’t like you, and cope accordingly. You can’t be affectedly difficult and different yet expect the world to behave as if that’s unnoticeable - _because you wouldn’t want that either_. Be as ‘individual’ as you like in terms of your dietary or other such lifestyle choices or proclivities. But don’t then get offended that people who are perfectly OK with normality don’t automatically go out of their way for your peculiarities - _which you value precisely because of their peculiarity_. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-some-people/701549/122 "2014-10-22T04:08:55Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Reminds me of the people who try to get airports shut down because of the noise they generate, even though the airport was there before the person’s house was even built, let alone before the person moved there. Some geniuses in my home town tried that with a gas station. The judge dismissed the suit with extreme prejudice and warned the lawyer to not bring such frivolous suits to the court’s attention ever again Or Else. ---
**Author:** ![JoannaDee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@JoannaDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoannaDee)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-some-people/701549/123 "2014-10-22T04:50:09Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I don’t know how many of you have been on a cruise, but I’m sure you can all imagine that the buffet is varied and well-stocked. Yet one morning on a recent cruise, my mother encountered a woman complaining that there weren’t enough choices! > > Talk about your first-world problems!! I will admit that I’ve had times where I’ve been unable to find anything at a buffet that appealed to me, but it certainly wasn’t for lack of variety - more like I didn’t know what I wanted, and obviously neither did the cooks! 😃 Not enough choices for food on a CRUISE?! Not bloody likely! ---
**Author:** ![JoannaDee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@JoannaDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoannaDee)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-some-people/701549/124 "2014-10-22T04:52:03Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > I’m a vegetarian. When invited to a party, I tell the host, offer to bring a three bean salad and chocolate lasagna, and make do. > > I worked with someone who had multiple chemical sensitivities or some such bullshit. She would get headaches, stomachaches and dizzy spells whenever anyone brought damn near any food into the office. She once objected when I brought a cup of tea with Sweet 'n Low in. “Oh, the smell of that stuff makes me sick. I’m going to throw up from it.” “Then maybe you shouldn’t leave your house.” :smack: ---
**Author:** ![JoannaDee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@JoannaDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoannaDee)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-some-people/701549/125 "2014-10-22T05:05:47Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > I have these two friends who I don’t like to go out to eat with because they invariably send stuff back. The woman will sit there and have the waiter go through everything in the menu, what’s in it, can she substitute this or that. She will come up with a custom order, and then, about five minutes after the waiter has put the order in, she will wave the waiter over and change it. And then when it comes, there is always something wrong. ALWAYS. > > (In one instance we went out for breakfast at a restaurant we both patronize, but not usually together. I have never had a complaint about the service there, but in her company, yeah, I could have had a few. Most notably, she asked for extra Hollandaise sauce for her Eggs Benedict. They brought it; she complained it was cold. They took it back and nuked it; now it’s not Hollandaise sauce anymore. Well, of course you can’t eat Eggs B without Hollandaise so could she order something else? And not be charged for the first meal? No? Waitress is a bitch…) > > The other one is not quite that bad, but he always sends something back. Hamburgers in a hotel restaurant, he’s all: “No, I ordered this MEDIUM RARE, it’s overcooked. No, don’t redo it. _big sigh_ I don’t have time to wait for someone to cook it right, assuming you have that person back in your kitchen, so I’ll just…suffer through an unsatisfying meal.” Right. A HAMBURGER. > > These two have never met, even though I have always thought they would be perfect for each other (the timing never worked out, mainly because they are both so high maintenance). > > It gets harder and harder to find out something to do with these people that won’t annoy the hell out of me. The woman and I walk our dogs together. Other than the fact that she pulls out her cell phone every ten minutes because of a call she has to take, that goes okay. The guy has moved to New York, so I rarely see him. Hope he can get a good meal there. > > (Heh–I once went out when he was still in town with him and another friend. I bet her $5 he would send at least one thing back. After he sent back the first thing, the appetizer, I asked if she wanted to go double or nothing and she wouldn’t even take the bet, but I would have won.) Not asking this to be a jerk, just seriously wondering, if these “friends” are so annoying - and it certainly sounds as though they are - why bother putting yourself through the frustration of having dinners with or walking your dog with them at all? They sound terrible! ---
**Author:** ![JoannaDee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@JoannaDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoannaDee)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-some-people/701549/126 "2014-10-22T05:08:16Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > What the hell is up with the barflies who can’t distinguish the bar parking lot from other parking lots/private property/home driveways/front lawns/whatever? I was wondering about that too - guy must have showed up drunk 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![JoannaDee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@JoannaDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoannaDee)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-some-people/701549/127 "2014-10-22T05:34:26Z")
> [@Filbert](#): > > I went to a juggling convention in Munich a few years back- it turns out that Munich is a lot stricter than a lot of Germany, and a lot of attendees were from regions or countries where marijuana is either legal or seen as no big deal by the authorities. > > This resulted in some dumb hippy trying to get me to sign a petition complaining to the organisers (who, it has to be said, hadn’t done the best job, especially in communicating with the venue). > > Their chief complaint? The organisers should not have allowed local police on site, as their boyfriend had been arrested for possession. > > I didn’t sign. Well I’m not surprised people would want to get high at a juggling convention in Munich 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![JoannaDee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@JoannaDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoannaDee)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-some-people/701549/128 "2014-10-22T05:36:10Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > A friend of mine owns a restaurant. He once got a woman who came into the place and handed him a list of what soups he should make each day of the week, so there always be a soup there that she wasn’t allergic to. LOL, amazing! Yes this restaurant exists just to serve one specific person 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![JoannaDee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@JoannaDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoannaDee)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-some-people/701549/129 "2014-10-22T05:37:40Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > This mornings [Dear Blabby](http://www.uexpress.com/dearabby/2014/10/15/woman-who-abuses-boyfriend-cant-figure) (the one about the girl with the nut allergy) reminded me of something that happened 2 summers ago. > > My wife and I were going to have a party and invited our friends. Most of them are like us, in their 50’s with their kids grown. But somehow this woman we hardly knew who was in an association we used to belong to got invited. She called my wife 4 days before the party and asked her if the house was peanut & nut free. My wife told her no. The woman then asked her to clean our house and make it peanut and nut free before the party. My wife told her she had neither the time nor the inclination to do that and hung up. My wife did not tell me about this phone call. > > About 3 hours later this woman showed up at our house. I answer the door and she tells me she’s here to help my wife clean our house and make it peanut and nut free. > > :eek: WTF are you talking about? Why on Earth would we do that? > > My wife came into the front room and sternly tells her that’s not going to happen, and she thought she made that clear during the phone call. > > Phone call? What phone call?😕 > > This woman became incredulous and tears into us about how her 5 year daughter is severely allergic to peanuts and tree nuts. > > So then I tear into this woman. “Lady! This is a party for adults. It doesn’t even start until 7pm. We don’t want kids here. There will be drinking, smoking, R-rated movies on the TV’s, and probably peanuts and nuts to snack on! In fact, I’m going to make sure there are a ton of them here!” > > She then storms out of the house bitching that we are the rudest, most inconsiderate hosts she’s ever known. Got in her car and sped away squealing her wheels. > Wife and I stood there looking at each other like deer in headlights. “What the hell was that all about?!” I asked. Then we got into a mild argument over who invited her in the first place. > > Never saw her or heard from her again. > > She should be happy. We got the biggest nut of them all out of our house!😛 You should agree but then say “of course first we have to go to your house and toss it for any kind of gluten. My child has a severe gluten allergy and I’m terrified you may track it to our house, contaminating it. I’ll show up whenever I want to help you clean, and any gluten I find will go straight in the garbage. Sound good?” ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-some-people/701549/130 "2014-10-22T10:25:18Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > This thread reminds me of some of the inappropriate, embarrassing things I’ve done in my younger years. Now I’m sad. > > Can everyone stop posting in this thread, it is making me sad. _ding dong_ Morning, sir. Just delivering this thread you won. Can I put it here on the verandah? ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-some-people/701549/131 "2014-10-22T11:58:18Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > As we got to know this couple better, we concluded the wife was very… strange. She seemed to thrive on attention. We later concluded she was batshit insane, and the peanut and tomato thing was nothing more than a way for her to gain attention. When I was cooking in the convention business, I came to the conclusion that some people with “allergies” were nothing more than attention whores who can’t bring themselves to simply eat what the other 500 people are eating. I realized this during the event where one woman provided the kitchen with an itemized list of everything she was “allergic” to, broken down by the menu for each meal we would be serving. At first, I thought this was helpful because it prevented last-minute revelations about “I can’t eat this”. But when I looked more closely at her list, I realized it contradicted itself from meal to meal as to what she was “allergic” to. ---
**Author:** ![MostlyUseless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@MostlyUseless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MostlyUseless)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-some-people/701549/132 "2014-10-22T13:10:19Z")
Two stories from our local roads. On a city street some months ago, three lanes and I am in the left lane because I will be making a left down the way. Some guy in a tall Jeep gets behind me and starts flashing his headlights like this is the Autobahn. Since it is a Sunday, the 2 other lanes are empty. I proceed to continue well past my turn since it is my solemn duty to NOT reward asshole behavior and he never does go around. What? On the highway, 5:30 AM, I am in the right-most lane with the cruise control set to the actual gee whiz speed limit. Guy in white truck pulls same shit. Flashing lights then proceeds to tailgate. I respond with tapping the brakes turning the cruise off and letting the car slow so that Mr Important will simply move into any of the three other empty lanes and simply go around. Evidently, this was not going to work for him and he pulls up and attempts to yell at me from the drivers side of his truck. Gee, you think I can hear you or care what you have to say? Fortunately, I have a dash cam and simply removed it from the windshield and allowed him his moment of glory soon forwarded to FL Highway Patrol. Lastly, when someone else makes a mistake and does something incredibly stupid on the highway, when did the most common response become the bird as if I did something that stupid? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-some-people/701549/133 "2014-10-22T14:22:54Z")
Common sense? In a car? When you, Mr. Emperor of the World are driving? Think again. If people used common sense they wouldn’t try to change a CD while driving, then look up, see my father on his motorcycle, and rear end him into the vehicle ahead. But that music was important enough to kill a man for! ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-some-people/701549/134 "2014-10-22T14:40:44Z")
I think that many drivers believe that the existence of a vehicle in front of them will make their penis grow smaller. ---
**Author:** ![MostlyUseless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@MostlyUseless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MostlyUseless)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-some-people/701549/135 "2014-10-22T16:28:47Z")
If I am on the highway in the left lane cruising at the speed limit, I think it understandable that others might take offense at that. I mean, they do put up signs saying slower vehicles to the right and all. However, the right hand lane is pretty much designed for fogies like me listening to NPR and doing the speed limit. Just now watching someone sit in the left turn lane clearing planning to get back into traffic and going through an entire light cycle block everyone else. In my world, if I make that mistake, I make the left and turn around later rather than block the whole world. ---
**Author:** ![race\_to\_the\_bottom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c4cdca/32.png) [@race\_to\_the\_bottom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/race_to_the_bottom)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-some-people/701549/136 "2014-10-23T00:50:15Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > Cool. I often park in handicap parking spots. Because 'eff them! Amirite?! We can swap some stories. :rolleyes: Oooooooooo! I just love you both to death. Me? I really hate bums, the so-called homeless who would rather lay on the sidewalk swilling cheap booze and begging than work. I like to get some cheap McDonalds hamburgers and pretend to drop one on the sidewalk as I walk by. Of course, I have removed the wrapper. I pick it up and say, “here, you can have this”. Wonderful feeling I get from that. I get a special glow if the sidewalk is filthy. We could form a club. Don’t you just hate those people with sunglasses and white canes who always try to cross against the light? ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-some-people/701549/137 "2014-10-23T01:56:11Z")
> [@JoannaDee](#): > > You should agree but then say “of course first we have to go to your house and toss it for any kind of gluten. My child has a severe gluten allergy and I’m terrified you may track it to our house, contaminating it. I’ll show up whenever I want to help you clean, and any gluten I find will go straight in the garbage. Sound good?” Where is this stuff coming from? When I was a kid nobody we knew of was deathly allergic to peanuts or gluten. Every kid I knew had peanut butter sandwiches in their lunch box at least a couple days a week! And I just heard of this gluten thing about 2 years ago. WTF? Are we **de** evolving into a pussy species or what? Have any of you tried gluten free beer? I’ve had like 4 different kinds of it. Each one was worse that the other. Blech! ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-some-people/701549/138 "2014-10-23T02:06:03Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > I think that many drivers believe that the existence of a vehicle in front of them will make their penis grow smaller. My problem is with drivers who think that any space between them and the vehicle in front of them _must be closed_. That is, if city traffic is moving at 25 MPH, and there are a hundred yards between me and the car in front of me, I should accelerate and close that distance so that I’m right behind that guy. At least that’s what the guy behind me seems to think. I’ve got this car in front of me, and speeding up to catch that car is completely pointless. I know how the damned lights work here (probably due to the years I spent as a pedestrian). Riding that guy’s bumper is not going to get me where I’m going any quicker, and I simply don’t see any point in racing to the next red light. In fact, I like having space between me and the car in front of me. Why race to close the gap, when I know damn well when the lights change? I remember years ago, when I was driving a 1972 Oldsmobile Toronado. An utter tank of a car. I found myself one day with some guy in a Mazda Miata riding my back bumper. I was begging him to get closer so that I could slam on my brakes … yeah, enjoy that “following too close” ticket Assuming you survive the collision. While your insurance company pays for the damage to my car. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-some-people/701549/139 "2014-10-23T02:06:16Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > I invite everyone to post. I would, but it would end up being something only suitable for the pit. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-some-people/701549/140 "2014-10-23T02:17:19Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > And I just heard of this gluten thing about 2 years ago. WTF? Are we **de** evolving into a pussy species or what? Gluten intolerance has been around a long time, it’s just in the past people with it didn’t know why they were sickly and having diarrhea all the time, along with any other symptoms. 2,000 years ago (give or take a few) Aretaeus of Cappadocia described a man with symptoms entirely consistent with celiac/gluten intolerance. At the time, no one knew what caused him symptoms. The disorder was formally identified and named in the mid-19th Century. The term “allergy” was coined around 1905 or 1906. The syndrome cropped up from time to time before that. Hippocrates - who lived quite a long time ago - described patients who developed hives after consuming milk. In other words, people who had food allergies around 300 BC. Yes, the incidence of these conditions seems to be rising. That’s partly because we’re better at identifying them. It’s also because people might not be dying of them, or of secondary problems linked to them, quite as often as before. Neither celiac nor allergies are new syndromes, they’ve been around a long time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-some-people/701549.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-some-people/701549.md?page=8)