{"id":12416,"date":"2023-12-03T02:01:58","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T02:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/03\/18-ways-you-can-stop-annoying-everyone-right-now\/"},"modified":"2023-12-03T02:01:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T02:01:58","slug":"18-ways-you-can-stop-annoying-everyone-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/03\/18-ways-you-can-stop-annoying-everyone-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"18 ways you can stop annoying everyone right now"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I used to think of myself as a charitable, friendly person, but the reality these days is exactly the opposite. The me-first, empathy-free times in which we live have afflicted my spirit. And you can do something about it: stop annoying me, and everyone else. Right now.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

I blame COVID-19, which made people forget how to behave in public or be considerate of others, and technology, which has created a self-centered world where no one matters as much as your right to do whatever you want with your phone.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The result is a world in which I find myself highly annoyed multiple times a day. Chances are, you feel the same way \u2026 unless you are annoying, too.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Study carefully the 18 items on this list. If you do any three or four of them, you are antisocial. If you do five or six, you are a public nuisance. If you do seven or more, you are so annoying that you should just stay home. Be honest with yourself. The future of civilization depends on people telling the truth about just how annoying they have become.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Here goes:\u00a0<\/p>\n

1. Stop staring at your phone while walking on the sidewalk. What makes you so important that everyone else needs to get out of your way? Look up from your phone and grasp that you aren\u2019t the only person on the planet.<\/p>\n

2. Stop using your phone\u2019s speaker in public places like planes, gyms, stores, restaurants, or doctors\u2019 waiting rooms. No one wants to listen to your insipid conversations or your stupid videos. \u00a0<\/p>\n

3. If you don\u2019t have TSA PreCheck, you shouldn\u2019t be allowed to fly. You just waste everyone else\u2019s time standing in the aisle during boarding, clogging up the overhead bin with your multiple oversized bags.\u00a0<\/p>\n

4. Stop putting up lawn signs, the world\u2019s cheapest form of virtue signaling. Posting a lawn sign that says you \u2018stand with\u2019 some cause means less than nothing. Get out and volunteer and do something useful instead of pretending that you\u2019ve made a meaningful statement. You haven\u2019t.\u00a0<\/p>\n

5. Stop tweeting condolences to dead people. Follow me carefully on this one: dead people can\u2019t read tweets. You know why? Because they\u2019re dead. Am I going too fast for you? Instead of tweeting your last respects, make a donation to a charity they liked, or put your phone down and go comfort the bereaved. Or both.\u00a0<\/p>\n

6. Along those lines, stop putting up decals of the names and dates of birth and death of people on the back window of your vehicle. Why should I care about your dead person? We\u2019re at a red light, not in a funeral parlor. And no, you can\u2019t mourn on a lease.\u00a0<\/p>\n

7. While driving, you don\u2019t have the right of way just because you feel like going. Wait your turn, you accident-causing loser.\u00a0<\/p>\n

8. Get your news from actual news sources, which is to say places that don\u2019t also offer millions of videos of 15-year-old girls twerking or pictures of what your \u2018friends\u2019 had for breakfast. Don\u2019t let social media algorithms dictate your political beliefs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

9. Realize that books aren\u2019t made of kryptonite. Pick one up and see what it says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

10. Delete the lottery app from your phone. Anyone who buys lottery tickets on an iPhone deserves to go broke.\u00a0<\/p>\n

11. You know that cool tattoo or piercing you\u2019re thinking about? Don\u2019t get it. Tattoos signal everyone that you\u2019re incapable of looking at the long term (one day you\u2019ll be sorry you have it) or engaging in independent thought.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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12. Realize that your Facebook friends aren\u2019t really your friends. They\u2019ve just arranged their lives to get likes from suckers like you. Recognize they\u2019re using you to feed their dopamine addiction, just as you\u2019re using them the same way.\u00a0<\/p>\n

13. Don\u2019t use profanity with people you just met. Maybe you don\u2019t give a f***, but they might.\u00a0<\/p>\n

14. Don\u2019t take calls while you\u2019re on the toilet in a public restroom. No one wants to hear you doing business while doing your business. \u00a0<\/p>\n

15. Don\u2019t forward anything to anyone for any reason, ever (except for this article). You aren\u2019t a professional journalist or broadcaster and the stuff you\u2019re sending is a waste of everyone\u2019s time, including your own.\u00a0<\/p>\n

16. Just because you disagree with someone doesn\u2019t make that person a racist, a -phobe of some sort, or a white supremacist. People who disagree with you just have differing opinions. They aren\u2019t evil.\u00a0<\/p>\n

17. Don\u2019t use your phone during yoga classes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

18. Don\u2019t use your phone during sex.\u00a0<\/p>\n

10. Delete the lottery app from your phone. Anyone who buys lottery tickets on an iPhone deserves to go broke.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There you have it. Eighteen ways to stop being so annoying, to me and to everyone else. Okay, I get it. People don\u2019t mean to be annoying. It\u2019s just that we still haven\u2019t gotten used to working outside the home or even being around other people. \u00a0<\/p>\n

So we\u2019ve lost a lot of the humanity and empathy that we always enjoyed. It\u2019s time to get it back, and the smartest move is to remember what it means to be a useful member of society. Thinking of the other person is the best way to get started.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

And then we won\u2019t be annoying. Or as annoying. But that\u2019s a good start.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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