Situations you hate but can't get out of

[KiloFox]

i hate people. i generally loathe talking to them and basic human interaction on most any level. there are a few exceptions of course (such as my friends) but i find the general population to be uninteresting, plain, conformist, boring, and generally unlikable.
i usually get around this by dressing "outlandishly" so that these people actively avoid me. anyone who approaches me then is usually the kind of person i'd like to talk to.

i also hate unemployment (ironically i usually get shoved into customer service) i've been looking for work for over 3 years now with absolutely no luck.

and i hate boredom. yes this is something i can't get out of because inevitably i'll simply run out of crap to DO. and i'll be forced to just sit around waiting for something to happen. i beat games too quickly to have much lasting fun with them. nearly any game i sit down with will be 100%ed within a week (at most) and i'll be back to being bored again. again there are few exceptions, but those games are so ludicrously long that they have to pad it with grind grind grind grind and that crap bores the hell out of me.

EDIT:
i can't believe i forgot this.
HAVING TO SHOW MY ID
or give my name in any fashion. nobody can pronounce my last name properly despite it being EASY AS HELL. and my first name is just 2 letters and so NOBODY believes me or writes it out.
this is why i just go by Kilo most places. it's much easier to get the odd stare and acknowledge it's a nickname rather than give my actual name

 

[DoomyMcDoom]

Unemployment!

Been looking for a job for over a month now with no responses... And it looks like the situation is unlikely to change.

Also the impending bacon shortage.

You my friend just nailed half of what I was going to say, and for that I salute you.

The other half is having to couch surfe due to unemployment depriving me of a home, and not having a gaming computer because I had to sell it to settle a debt, so that I could continue eating food.
Also being stuck using a netbook as my only source of computing, I mean don't get me wrong, it runs old dos games, and I don't care about graphics, since I grew up with a Tandy 1000 and a NES, and the NES was hi-def and beautiful compared to the computer, but I wish I could play more modern games, like most of my steam library...

 

[Scarim Coral]

Pretty much whenever my brother had a "discussion" about my future and career? So what I don't have an ambition and why should you be the standard that I have to be?

Sure that's something I can't get out of whenever he come over but I can see it coming to whenever we go out into town or shoping to spend some "quality time" together. Well I have to hand it myself for unintentionally asking for it.

Whenever I decide to come with him when he goes out, I put out of my gaming/ internet seach time to spend time hanging out with my brother as I expected some quality time (you know like chatting and being friendly etc) but no, he always used that as his ambush time to corner to question what I'm doing in life...

I swear I think I gonna refuse it this time just to spite him to get the message!!

 

[Snydeclyde]

Having to converse with taxi drivers,
They ask me something, i answer and dont say anything else in the hope the conversations over, so they then ask more stuff.
this is made worse by me being obviously foreign (live in Peru), which then if im unlucky leads to annoying and/or stupid questions. Such as assuming that being English means im from London and am familiar with Liverpool cos thats where the Beatles are from.
Also agree with the person who said about conversing with old peaople who are highly racist or religous or whatever and trying not to offend them.

 

[Jadak]

Paying taxes.

"Nothing is certain but death and taxes"

Come to think about it....i'm not a fan of death either.

Being asked "How are you?".

I hate it because I can never come up with an accurate answer.

I can't avoid it because everyone in the whole freaking world insists on asking it.

Ever considered "Fine" ?

 

[Idlemessiah]

My situation. I have a degree but I'm stuck in a dead end job with no current opportunities for better work or moving to somewhere with better work.

I'm told that I'm lucky to have a job at all in this economic climate, which to be fair is a pretty accurate statement, but I know that there are a LOT of other people in the same situation as me; wishing that they could be something better.

I know this reeks of "first world problems" whining, but thats the thing; it IS a first world problem, all these people, including myself, are 'over-educated' for the kind of jobs that are available to them.

 

[Saviordd1]

Sleeping on a bus and the shits in front of me are loud.

That or awkward conversations with friends.

 

[hazabaza1]

Complimenting people.
Holy fuck that's bad.

Even if they look fine or whatever 9/10 I just fuck up saying stuff and people get mad at me.
Also not a fan of discussing relationships, especially with my mum. Jesus she has some bad timing with that.

 

[yeti585]

Discussing work, the future, school, etc. with my mother.

People that are generally unfriendly. I get that my friend shanked the paper football wide right (*cough cough* Cundiff *cough cough*) and hit you on the back, but we said sorry and it was an accident. You don't have to rip up the "ball" and throw the scraps into my lap. If it's bothering you that much just politely ask us to move.

 

[el_kabong]

My current career. Because of the job laws in my state and the current economic climate, I get saddled with more and more responsibilities with no promotion or increase in pay. Out of my three person team, I've helped make my company over $7 million this year alone (me and 2 others). The best I can do is threaten to go elsewhere, but I work for one of the only successful games in town.

It's like being in the "friend zone". Whenever a promotion comes up, they always praise my awesomeness, but they don't want to change our relationship. I guess I can't blame them. I'm definitely a bargain when you compare what their putting in my pocket and what I'm putting in theirs. Still is really depressing, though.

 

[Roxor]

Being asked "How are you?".

I hate it because I can never come up with an accurate answer.

I can't avoid it because everyone in the whole freaking world insists on asking it.

Ever considered "Fine" ?

Can't you just say, "Good thanks, how 'bout you?"

It seems to work for everyone else.

It works for people who actually are feeling fine or good. It doesn't work if you can't make an accurate assessment of your state in the first place.

 

[Jadak]

Being asked "How are you?".

I hate it because I can never come up with an accurate answer.

I can't avoid it because everyone in the whole freaking world insists on asking it.

Ever considered "Fine" ?

Can't you just say, "Good thanks, how 'bout you?"

It seems to work for everyone else.

It works for people who actually are feeling fine or good. It doesn't work if you can't make an accurate assessment of your state in the first place.

It not being true doesn't stop it working...

Forget accuracy, if it annoys you and you've got nothing better to say, say "fine".

 

[J Tyran]

For some reason I seem to get dragged into situations such as this:
"Excuse me, can I have a moment of your time?"
"Uh... sure thing I suppose..."
"I just want to take this moment to talk about our Lord."

And oh bugger, here we go again. I have no way to extract myself without looking like an absolute prick. You'd think I'd have learnt my lesson by now.

Look, can't you guys just keep it in the churches?!

Thats easy, you just politely tell them you don't believe in what they do. If they push it then being a prick is justified.

 

[Cranky]

Being ignored for no reason.

 

[Relish in Chaos]

I have generalized anxiety and an inferiority complex, so pretty much everything. I don?t like having to sleep either, since I?m kind of addicted to my laptop and find it difficult to turn it off at, like, 11pm. At the moment, what?s occupying my mind is how I?m going to complete all these essays that I don?t have the foggiest on how to complete.

But to say something relatively new, I hate it when I?m talking in a group of friends or acquaintances, and I say something in an attempt to contribute to the discussion, and it?s completely ignored. There's the awkward silence from within me that anything I say isn't worth being listened to, since this happens more times than it should.

 

[IndomitableSam]

Working for a living.

Done it for a while now, I'm over it. ... Please? (But I still want my house and my car and, you know... food.)

Also: Being a woman who is almost 30 and single/unmarried/no kids - automatically people think something's wrong with you and expect you to explain yourself or that 'it's just a phase'. Fuck off, I like my money and free time. You're just jealous.

 

[Roxor]

Being asked "How are you?".

I hate it because I can never come up with an accurate answer.

I can't avoid it because everyone in the whole freaking world insists on asking it.

Ever considered "Fine" ?

Can't you just say, "Good thanks, how 'bout you?"

It seems to work for everyone else.

It works for people who actually are feeling fine or good. It doesn't work if you can't make an accurate assessment of your state in the first place.

It not being true doesn't stop it working...

Forget accuracy, if it annoys you and you've got nothing better to say, say "fine".

Okay, let me put it another way by using a computer analogy: It's like running a diagnostic program which is so riddled with bugs that it chews up all the memory, making the computer unresponsive for a while until it eventually crashes and you can use the computer again.

 

[Roxor]

Being asked "How are you?".

I hate it because I can never come up with an accurate answer.

I can't avoid it because everyone in the whole freaking world insists on asking it.

Tell me if this sounds about right.

You can't admit that you're having a shitty day, even if you are, because if you do people will just inquire further instead of just leaving you alone. So instead you have to lie and say you're doing well just so they'll move on.

The only time you ever admit to having a bad day is if you actually feel like talking about it to someone. And since the type of person who's going to ask you how you are is never the type of person you'd talk with about your problems, this almost never happens.

Not that the person who asks this question really cares about how you're doing anyway. It's filler for when they want to say something to you after "hello" but can't think of a relevant topic to bring up.

Thus a completely meaningless verbal exchange takes place in which neither party truly expresses anything relating to the truth of themselves.

Wow. That's a way more insightful reason than my one of not being able to assess my own state well enough to be able to say if I could honestly say I'm fine.

Have a double thumbs-up: =b d=

 

[Angie7F]

being single with no intention of having kids.

 

[BeeGeenie]

Poverty.It's hard to get out of.