How Do You Annoy Someone?

Reflection

When I first received the assignment I was at a loss for a topic but had a general plan for how I would write the paper. The process was easy enough, just outline different ways to do something and make it interesting. How my partner and I came up with the topic is rather obscure. I just brainstormed possible topics that would be interesting to write about and came up with annoying someone. My partner agreed to use it.
After a topic was selected, everything went smoothly. We came up with subtopics that we could use and divided them evenly among us. Once we were done writing our parts we combined them and fused them with an intro.
After rereading the draft recently, my partner and I concluded that there were no major revisions that needed to be done. We needed to add a conclusion to further tie together the piece. Some small corrections in grammar and the order of words were required as well. Almost all of these parts apply to my partner's part, however, and an light reading of the paper will identify all of them. I leave the citing of these parts, if they get cited at all, to my partner since she is the writer and she might want to change things around or add new words.

The paper could also benefit from the addition of examples to certain subtopics. The most prevalent place where an example is needed is the talking subtopic. Since this is my part, I need to add an example to demonstrate how to verbally annoy someone.

• Be extremely obnoxious. When you have a conversation interrupt often and make comments really immature or really irrelevant to what is going on. Be loud. Space out your obnoxious interruptions to every couple of sentences. You can even repeat yourself.


• Make horrible jokes. It helps if they are a little perverted. Immaturity is a key factor here. Repeat the same joke often. It also helps to include the person in your horrible jokes, but it is not essential.

These parts are not too clear. I need to add examples to better explain my point. Since this is a how-to paper, examples are vital. Both of these bullets need examples.

I might, for the second bullet, say,

For example, if you are speaking to a person named John, you can use the following horrible joke: "John, hows your little John doing?" Then you could continue with "John you have a small JOHN! get it?" Making this the theme of your conversation will definitely aggravate John, or anyone else.

This isn't a set in stone example (meaning I might not use it) but this is definitely something like an example I would use. With an example, the bullet is much more developed and the task of explaining how to annoy someone is that much more complete.

A title is also needed.

Oh, before I forget, what I really enjoy about this paper is the hidden humor behind it. Check out the touching subsection. Its kind of messed up but comical. I particularly like the following two bullets:

• Poking. This technique requires never ending jabbing of your finger in any part of other person’s body that is open (usually the ribs). Poke at timed intervals. Continue even if the person tells you to stop and you are almost guaranteed at punch in the face.
• Rubbing. Nothing freaks people out more than getting randomly massaged. There are a few things to keep in mind: back rubs are usually tolerated, moving down, however, like to the upper stomach or lower back area, causes a freak response and much wanted irritation. Be careful! Sometimes the person you try to annoy using this method could actually be a freak and enjoy it. Run if that person tries to return the favor.

Funny. Thats the first word that comes to mind for me. These should definitely make a reader giggle and then wonder what the hell is wrong with the author. Exactly what I am shooting for in a reaction.


Without further ado, here is the how-to on annoying:

Annoying people is a type of art. Annoyers are like musicians; with the nerves of other people as their instrument. There are many practical reasons to bother someone. Annoying is a great way to pass time and get a kick out of the reactions of other people. It is also a very effective technique to use to get revenge on someone. By using the following methods, you can irritate a person to the breaking point. Be careful and have fun!

1. Talking. If you want to annoy someone without any physical movement, try talking. The only muscle moving is your mouth yet the amount of annoyance you can generate is unlimited. Here are a few ways you can really tick someone off:
• Talk only about yourself every time you meet a person. Make topics of conversation either really uncomfortable (how your trip to the bathroom went) or boring (how your cat walked around the room). Do this over and over and repeat yourself often for optimum success. Ensure that you do not register anything the person you intend to annoy says, keep the focus purely on yourself.
• Be extremely obnoxious. When you have a conversation interrupt often and make comments really immature or really irrelevant to what is going on. Be loud. Space out your obnoxious interruptions to every couple of sentences. You can even repeat yourself.
• Repeat one thing constantly. This is could be done by simply saying a word non-stop. It’s pretty certain that if all you say to a person is “rat”, for even as short a time as 20 minuets, that person would be prepared to rip your tongue out.
• Make horrible jokes. It helps if they are a little perverted. Immaturity is a key factor here. Repeat the same joke often. It also helps to include the person in your horrible jokes, but it is not essential.

2. Touching. This does not require a word and is the easiest way to annoy the crap out of someone. Almost everyone has a “personal bubble” that, if penetrated, causes much annoyance.
• Poking. This technique requires never ending jabbing of your finger in any part of other person’s body that is open (usually the ribs). Poke at timed intervals. Continue even if the person tells you to stop and you are almost guaranteed at punch in the face.
• Rubbing. Nothing freaks people out more than getting randomly massaged. There are a few things to keep in mind: back rubs are usually tolerated, moving down, however, like to the upper stomach or lower back area, causes a freak response and much wanted irritation. Be careful! Sometimes the person you try to annoy using this method could actually be a freak and enjoy it. Run if that person tries to return the favor.
• Standing too close. This has to be done multiple times. The response is usually violent, so be ready to tussle with the person you intend to annoy. This method is pretty easy to perform. Just stand really really close behind someone. It could help to breathe heavily on their ears or the back of their neck. It usually takes only 2 seconds for a response.
Ignoring To annoy someone and at the same time be slightly mean you should have no contact with them and pretend they do not exist.
• Talk to every one else that is there except for the person that you are trying to ignore. If the person is near try to get into a deep conservation with a person so there is no opportunity for the person to get involved in the conservation. If they try to get into the conservation do not let them and continue talking only to one person.
• Avoid the person you are trying to Ignore, walk in the opposite direction when they approach you and sit as far away form them as possible. If you want to make it obvious that you are ignoring them do not even make eye contact with them.
• If they ask you a direct question ignore them and start talking with someone else. Do not answer the question and pretend that they are not even standing there.

Taking some thing of someone’s This will annoy some one and is especially effective if you are sitting with a person at a table with a lot of stuff on it that is harmless to take but will make them fret.
• When the person is not looking or not paying attention take one of their belongings and hide it some where. Wait for the person to leave the room or get up to get some thing.
• The possession should be some thing that they will notice is missing and want back. If is not an obvious thing they may never know that it has been taking and not ask for it back. This will not accomplish your goal of trying to annoy them.
• You can hide the belonging any where you want it can be on your person or some where else but it should be some where safe so the it dose not get stolen or ruined.
• When the person starts to inquire where their belonging is try to act like you do not know what they are talking about and claim you had nothing to do with the disappearance of their object. This works well if there are a lot of people that could have taken the object so it is not obvious that you took the object.