# Worst attention seeking behaviour you've seen? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 16, 2018, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-attention-seeking-behaviour-youve-seen/817995 "2018-07-16T10:24:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-attention-seeking-behaviour-youve-seen/817995/21 "2018-07-16T18:05:18Z")
A few years ago I was passing someone and they said “Sir, you dropped something.” I ignored them and they kept repeating it MANY times. When I finally did turn around they said “your pride.” Now, the joke would not have worked if I had immediately turned around. It _would_ have worked had I turned around after 2 or 3 times because I would have dropped my pride at not wanting to turn around. But having to call me out so many times to make his stupid joke he was demonstrating that _he_ was the one dropping his pride. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-attention-seeking-behaviour-youve-seen/817995/22 "2018-07-16T18:30:25Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Last year my gf got another horse, Gracie (aka Grapeseed). She is my first experience with a mare. When she is in heat she will hold her tail off to the side and prominently display her female bits. Uh, that’s quite interesting behavior. Oh, you mean the horse. ---
**Author:** ![ToughLife](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8797f3/32.png) [@ToughLife](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToughLife)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-attention-seeking-behaviour-youve-seen/817995/23 "2018-07-16T19:03:48Z")
> [@](#): > > Oh, you mean the horse. Priceless ) ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-attention-seeking-behaviour-youve-seen/817995/24 "2018-07-16T19:24:09Z")
> [@markn\_1](#): > > Uh, that’s quite interesting behavior. > Oh, you mean the horse. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Hi\_Neighbor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hi_neighbor/32/494_2.png) [@Hi\_Neighbor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hi_Neighbor)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-attention-seeking-behaviour-youve-seen/817995/25 "2018-07-16T19:24:53Z")
Basically anything Logan Paul does, like [this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Paul#Suicide_video_controversy). ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-attention-seeking-behaviour-youve-seen/817995/26 "2018-07-16T19:54:49Z")
We’ve got a local panhandler who’s taken to balancing a bicycle upside down on his head, curbside. I don’t know if the seat’s been modified to be more hat-like. I also don’t know if it’s increasing his take, but I find myself approving his effort. ---
**Author:** ![RunSilent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@RunSilent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RunSilent)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-attention-seeking-behaviour-youve-seen/817995/27 "2018-07-16T20:35:44Z")
Athletes taking a knee. ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-attention-seeking-behaviour-youve-seen/817995/28 "2018-07-16T20:44:09Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > This. Morons who install fart cans and gigantic wings on their POS Honda Civic and drive around the neighborhood pretending they’re a street racer, but it’s really the only thing they’ve done to the car. > > And that idiot who just sits in his driveway with his motorcycle, revving the engine for hours for no reason at all. Extra points for Hoonigan, Illest, and fake Dinan and Brembo stickers. A young guy in my hood has an old BMW 325i he’s re-badged (badly) as an M3 and thrown a fart can on. He’s actually a sweet kid who has stopped a few times to talk with me when I’m fixing stuff on my Bimmer fleet (“fixing” = “screwing up more stuff”). You can hear him coming from a mile away and it used to annoy the shit outta me until I met him and the car he adores. I hate loud phone conversations in public, many of them – in subject matter and volume – seem attention-seeking and performative in nature. ---
**Author:** ![Dobbs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Dobbs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dobbs)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-attention-seeking-behaviour-youve-seen/817995/29 "2018-07-16T21:27:25Z")
Well, we’ve got this President… ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-attention-seeking-behaviour-youve-seen/817995/30 "2018-07-16T21:31:10Z")
I always laugh when it’s the middle of summer and there’s a kid riding down the paved road on a fat tire mountain bike. Now I’ve hear these things are a complete blast to ride through the snow in the winter but riding around during the summer time because they are the newest hip trend in biking make you look silly. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-attention-seeking-behaviour-youve-seen/817995/31 "2018-07-16T21:34:21Z")
The Phelps moron brigade. ---
**Author:** ![sjankis630](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ea924/32.png) [@sjankis630](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sjankis630)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-attention-seeking-behaviour-youve-seen/817995/32 "2018-07-16T21:55:33Z")
> [@](#): > > Motorcycles and cars with loud pipes. No real reason to have them other to say to the world - look at me, look at ME! Absolutely this. I have never understood how some of these people aren’t ticketed for their loud Harleys. I just assumed that the cops have hogs of their own and approve. Waaaay tooyloud. And to an earlier poster, I used to have a neighbor who revved his non modified motorcycle around 7:30AM every Saturday. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-attention-seeking-behaviour-youve-seen/817995/33 "2018-07-16T22:02:01Z")
But, but, but “Loud pipes save lives!!” I suppose they could if you were backing your motorcycle into someone… ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-attention-seeking-behaviour-youve-seen/817995/34 "2018-07-16T22:19:13Z")
People who watch videos on their phone in public places with their audio on max, just so people nearby can ask what they’re watching When somebody in public makes some comment and then looks back and forth at the people around him for some acknowledgement of what they just said ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-attention-seeking-behaviour-youve-seen/817995/35 "2018-07-16T22:41:39Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > A few years ago I was passing someone and they said “Sir, you dropped something.” I ignored them and they kept repeating it MANY times. When I finally did turn around they said “your pride.” Now, the joke would not have worked if I had immediately turned around. It _would_ have worked had I turned around after 2 or 3 times because I would have dropped my pride at not wanting to turn around. But having to call me out so many times to make his stupid joke he was demonstrating that _he_ was the one dropping his pride. Do you live in a college town? It might be a psychology experiment. Or it could be someone who thinks they’re being funny. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-attention-seeking-behaviour-youve-seen/817995/36 "2018-07-16T22:57:07Z")
**Worst attention seeking behaviour you’ve seen?** Starting dozens of inane threads in just a few weeks on a internet message board. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-attention-seeking-behaviour-youve-seen/817995/37 "2018-07-17T02:05:09Z")
Far from the worst - but sticking 26.2 or 13.1 decals on the rear of your vehicle because you supposedly just want to connect with other runners, not that you’re boasting of your relatively commonplace athletic achievement - yeah, right. Pro athletes (especially those who have _just scored an actual real-life **touchdown** _) put your petty ego display to shame. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-attention-seeking-behaviour-youve-seen/817995/38 "2018-07-17T02:22:19Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > **Worst attention seeking behaviour you’ve seen?** > > Starting dozens of inane threads in just a few weeks on a internet message board. nice! ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-attention-seeking-behaviour-youve-seen/817995/39 "2018-07-17T03:35:14Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Far from the worst - but sticking 26.2 or 13.1 decals on the rear of your vehicle because you supposedly just want to connect with other runners, not that you’re boasting of your relatively commonplace athletic achievement - yeah, right. > > Pro athletes (especially those who have _just scored an actual real-life **touchdown** _) put your petty ego display to shame. A lot of people work quite hard to accomplish either of those. There’s a difference between being proud of an accomplishment and boasting. It’s one thing to not shut up about it at the water cooler, it’s another to slap an (oh noes!) sticker on your car. I like seeing them on other people’s cars. Makes me happy for them. It makes a hell of a lot more sense than a bumper sticker of your local pro sports team, your kids relatively commonplace grade school achievements, or your mediocre state college. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-attention-seeking-behaviour-youve-seen/817995/40 "2018-07-17T03:40:54Z")
I use a battery-powered blue tooth speaker for my iPhone when I’m teaching classes. When I occasionally run into people who insist on playing music/playing games/watching videos on their phones or tablets in public, I can quickly up the game. It winds up that technobeat bothers people in Taiwan as well. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-attention-seeking-behaviour-youve-seen/817995.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-attention-seeking-behaviour-youve-seen/817995.md?page=3)