It can be anything: at your job or any forced activity that you just don’t feel like doing surrounded by other people. Visiting certain place, local, party, etc. It can be anything: at your job or any forced activity that you just don’t feel like doing surrounded by other people. Visiting certain place, local, party, etc.
I had to accompany my young brother to a small comic con thing a month ago and I was cringing HARD in that place I couldn’t bear being there, I just kept my head down most of the time otherwise I would’ve just start laughing or rolling my eyes looking all that adult people dressed like it’s a shitty Halloween party.
I cringe at the narcissism of thinking others are “normies” or whatever. The type of reddit “sportsball”, “I hate small talk”, “dark humor”, “r/raisedbynarcissists”, etc. And many more things. A lot of it feels like it’s just people thinking they know better than others(yes I see the irony).
Unrelated answer I get uncomfortable eating in restaurants.
Eating in a grocery store. 😬
My wife loves opening a drink while she shops and I know everyone knows we are going to pay for it, but oh man it makes me uncomfortable.
Sitting around politely listening to someone poorly play music or worse, poorly sing. This has happened very rarely to me,and the bad guitar was embarrassing but the other instances, the singing, where we all were trying and failing not to wince at every high note and marveled at exactly how long a 3 and a half minute song could really be while this poor wretch clearly had no idea what he sounded like…god that was an awful experience that goosebumps are reminding me of even now.
Whenever someone from HR says “We’re going to play a game to introduce ourselves” I begin screaming internally. I’m not going to sing about my job, Kaitlynn!
I think the worst is forced companionship, like getting together with a family for birthdays and stuff. The meaningless chit-chat… The being nice even though you know there are some that can’t stand each other. Once you’ve had some unforced editions of these, like with friends or just people you get along with easily, it becomes blatantly obvious how uncomfortable it gets when it’s forced.
Most woke and anti-woke stuff. Like watching two toddlers go at each other around the toy bin, both screaming, “They started it!” The hate festering stronger, the division wider, the battered doll—of the 2010s’ equality surge—propped up and still taking a beating until it’s unrecognisable from the bright new toy it once appeared to be.
It cements my position on human nature. Nice things cannot be achieved because of an ever-lingering darkness that insists it is the light. MLK saw it. No one respects each other. Those that are meant to help are often the ones that hurt others and themselves the most.
Edit: Grammar. I had just woken up. Yeah, lovely way to start the day.
Anytime two people who don’t know each other are forced to wait in a shared waiting area.
One person feels the NEED to talk about SOMETHING. So it’s always the weather. ALWAYS the weather. Is there a more boring and irrelevant topic in all of humanity???
“Oh, think it’ll rain Tuesday?”
“I don’t give a shit.”
But somehow I’M the asshole. All I wanted to do was scroll my phone, and wait for my appointment in silence. I’m not even a fan of this mundane music we’re forced to listen to. If I want music, I’ll wear my headphones. And if you want music, YOU wear YOUR headphones.
But don’t bother me with the weather just because you feel a compulsive need to fill the silence. I like the silence.
Just don’t look at them and say, “Indeed, there does appear to be weather outside, happening right now.”
