Summer_Twilight wrote:
Marknis wrote:
Summer_Twilight wrote:
No,
I don't think most people are annoying, however, do I think people can be that way? Yes!
People who I find annoying
1. People who are supercilious or stuck up
2. People who have know-it-all attitudes
3. People who ask me lots of empty questions
4. People who are nosy
5. People who think very little of us as nothing more than "Children" because they are ill-educated or mis-informed
The Bible Belt in a nutshell.
There are some annoying people in the places of worship in general and that seems to be everywhere. What I find annoying is that you have to "Fit into some mold" just to attend or you get stigmatized. Those kinds of people tend to have lots of "Unwritten rules" that you are expected to follow. If you are social blind to those rules then there is something wrong with you.
This happened in a small group that I tried to get involved with through the church's single's Sunday school group. Since I didn't know what the rules were, I did some things that the group's leader didn't approve of. When they punished me, I was bullied by having one woman, who normally made no effort to give me ride by having her pick me up so the leader could punish me. After that, she didn't want to give me a ride home and became very snotty with me post that interaction.
Why am I not surprised? I actually spent a summer going to a bible study and I never felt like I fit in. The guys just wanted to talk about sports, shooter games, and the tv show Lost while my interest in anime and games like Street Fighter just got me "Huh?" and "Nah!" type responses. The girls grouped together and they didn't share anything in common with me. I stopped going sometime before the summer ended and I wish I had my time from that summer back.
I, too, went to a singles group that was a part of the church that the bible study was also a part of and it was an immediate disappointment from the moment I walked in. No one greeted me for starters. In fact, I got indifferent stares from the get go. I sat down and someone started to talk to me but he asked me about sports immediately and when I said I didn't play any, he looked surprised. I already felt like the odd man out and none of the girls there were available to talk to. My mother tried to encourage me to talk about music but it was too late because a good number of the people there went into another part of the area to watch a movie so I just left.
That's horrible how those people treated you. Did you ever get back at them?