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What are some things people say that make you want to roll your eyes (or just let out a deep sigh)?

Here are some things people say (or have said) that make me roll my eyes, or just sigh in exasperation:

[b]"Can I say something without you getting mad?"[/b] [i]Sure, there are lots of things you could say without me getting mad, but there are also some things you could say that would make me mad. And let's be honest, you know perfectly well that what you're about to say is one of them, yet you're going to say it anyway, aren't you?[/i]

[b]"Don't take this the wrong way, but . . ."[/b] (A slight variation on the above).

[b]"Don't you ever get tired of having long hair?"[/b] My next older sister used to ask me this all the time, until I said to her, "No, but I do get tired of you asking me that question." She looked totally taken aback, and a little offended, but she never asked me that one again. ☺

[b]"Is this attached?"[/b] (As someone yanks a stray hair out of my head). [i]Not anymore it isn't.[/i]

When I was a kid: [b]"These are the best years of your life."[/b] [i]You mean it never gets any better?[/i] (I didn't have a particularly happy childhood. And by the way, they were wrong. Things got much better for me).

[b]"Why are you so quiet?"[/b] [i]Well, right now I don't have much to say, at least nothing that anyone around me would want to hear. So I'm just going to save my breath,for now anyway.[/i] It's been a long time since I've been asked this one. For some reason people asked me this question a lot when I was a kid. Apparently all kids were supposed to be loud and boisterous. If a child preferred to sit quietly and read a book, something was wrong. When I was a kid, introversion in children was considered a very serious problem that desperately needed to be "fixed." Hopefully that thinking has since changed and all personality types, in adults and children, are more accepted now.

[b]"Why are you so serious?"[/b] [i]Well, I guess I haven't seen or heard anything funny in a while. But if you have a good joke, please feel free to share it with me.[/i] Again, people asked me this question a lot more when I was a kid.

[b]"Geez, you can't take a joke. You have no sense of humor."[/b] (Just after someone has said something especially nasty). [i]Actually, I can take a joke, if it's actually humorous and not just mean. And if you actually think that what you just said was funny, then YOU need to work on YOUR sense of humor.[/i]

After something bad happens: [b]"It was God's will."[/b] [i]Really? How do you know exactly what God's will is? Did he tell you himself?[/i]

[b]"Time heals all wounds."[/b] [i]No it doesn't. I know for a fact that it doesn't, because I've had emotional wounds that didn't heal, even after years of waiting for them to heal. Real healing takes work. It takes a great deal of personal growth, and often the support of others.[/i]

After someone interrupts me and causes me to lose my train of thought: [b]"Well, if you can't remember what you were about to say, it must not have been that important."[/b] [i]Actually, even though I don't remember what I was going to say, I do remember having something important to say. You're just saying that to make yourself feel better. And the truth is, you don't think anything that I have to say is important, or you wouldn't constantly interrupt me.[/i]

[b]"Kids today. They change jobs like they change clothes."[/b] I remember hearing an old lady say this on the bus once. The truth is, a lot of companies these days try on employees the way customers try on clothes in a fitting room at a department store. They then discard most of them, in much the way a customer hands most of the clothes they've tried on back to the store clerk. It's that impersonal, and it has been that way for quite some time. All they have to say, in the way of an explanation, is "We just didn't feel that you were a good fit." I'm sure that things were much different when that old lady was working, but she still shouldn't have generalized and jumped to conclusions like that.

[b]"You just didn't like having a black president."[/b] (Another way of calling me a racist, when someone is unable to refute my political arguments). Hopefully someday those who are in the habit of saying this will realize that this is actually a sign that they have lost the argument, because they are resorting to personal attacks. By the way, I would have loved for Alan Keyes (who is black) to have won the Republican nomination back in 2008. I think he would have made a good president, and at the very least it would have been interesting to watch Obama run against a black Republican.

I can think of a couple more, but they are more personal in nature and and I wouldn't want to share them with just anyone. And I wouldn't want my eyes to fall out of my head.


Pardon me for my rant. I just felt the need to get some stuff off my chest. And if you have anything like this to get off your chest, feel free.



Edit: Oh, and one more: [b]"Is it that time of the month?"[/b] (When I'm getting a little annoyed with someone). [i]Um, no, you're just acting like kind of a jerk right now. But then you never do anything wrong, do you?[/i] (sigh)

Further edit: [b]"It is what it is."[/b] [i]What does that even mean? What could anything possibly be, besides what it is?[/i]
quinnVneck · 31-35, F
just like i roll my eyes every time Lelianna [from any Dragon Age game] says "its the will of the Maker"...or if any other person says "Its' God's will" as if God didn't gave us Free Will in the first place, no he actually did give us free will its only religious fanatics who made free will selective and limited...

these people want control, and God had nothing to do with our life scripts or destinies... we control them like Individuals who have broken from the chains that bind them

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boB0d7fzd1U]
TeresaRudolph71 · 51-55, F
@quinnVneck: Thanks for sharing that song! I really enjoyed listening to that! And agree, people do have free will, and they don't always do what's right.
calicuz · 51-55, M
When people say they quit their job, fore what ever reason, and then they tell you a story of how the boss asked them, practically begged them, to stay. "Don't leave, we'll make changes."
I say it's a bull shit lie and they got fired and have to make up a story to make themselves look good.
Never have I been asked, or begged to stay, when quitting a job. And I've quit a few for better opportunities. I've also been fired from a few jobs, but never made up a story.
TeresaRudolph71 · 51-55, F
@calicuz: Yeah, I've never been asked to stay either, though there were a couple of times when my supervisor said he/she was sad to see me go. But it was obvious that nothing was going to change. If I wanted things to be different, then I needed to get a different job.
calicuz · 51-55, M
@TeresaRudolph71: Sure, the ones I quit, my bosses knew it was to accept a better offer, and shook my hand, told me they wished they weren't losing me, but understood the reasons for my leaving.
Firespirit · 22-25, M
Black people can't be racist

 
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