What NT accepted behaviour flumoxes you the most?

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I rode a commuter train for ten years. Keeping a double seat to oneself is an art. I was penalized because I was skinny, so I developed ways of sitting and moving that made me seem wider.

I ALWAYS try to get a double seat on the bus. Sitting next to a stranger on the bus means I feel them, and smell them, which I really don't like. In fact, I'd rather stand because at least then it doesn't mess with my senses.

How they act like when they do you the slightest favor, you have a moral duty to act like they dragged you out of a burning building



How they find it necessary to say "young man" and "young lady". Gender this and gender that

How they act like it's man/lady. It's man/woman, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls

Not guy and girl



"Are you ok?", And you have to say "thank you"

They can't and won't "help"

If they don't want to do something, they say they "can't"

They say "sorry" for things that are not their fault, but when they do something wrong, they dismiss it

When you do something wrong, they exaggerate

Like they have never done anything wrong before

And "the meaning of life is helping people "

As a greeting:
"Lookin' good! Lookin' good!"
no matter what I look like.

My brother used to say, "You'd look so good if you'd only lose some weight" *every* time we met, that's me, Mom, and Sis. So we told him to cut it out. Ever since, he greets us with "Lookin' good!" It's the same us.

How they act like everything is or has to be hilarious

Off leash dogs

Dogs with clothes

How they act so morally innocent

How NTs think tiny, inbred dogs with bug-eyes and breathy problems are cute. There's nothing cute about inbreeding an animal that can hardly breath!

How they are so simple-minded and dramatic

"Helping" versus "hurting"

How they act like they have a moral right to get whatever they want at all times

How they confuse their opinion with fact

How they refuse to admit that they did something wrong

And even when they do, it's just "sorry"

No reparations



How they act like "wat?" Is really the etiquette equivalent of "excuse me"

I don't think I have just one.
Buying an expensive wedding dress to wear only once.
The need to be talking on their phones all the time- even when they are minutes away from meeting the person they are talking to.
Giving you their life story when you didn't ask
Makeup
The need to talk to you in an elevator, while waiting for something, on line, etc or in any circumstance where god forbid there might be silence. Silence petrifies them.

“Multi-tasking”

The kind of behavior where, in an empty theater, for example, people come and sit close to you rather than picking some other equally good spot with a greater separation of distance.

In a restauarant, when a person exchanges a pleasantry with a stranger a number of tables or booths away and they start to carry on a fairly loud conversation when others are in the restaurant trying to eat in peace or have their own conversations.

How they insist on using as much technology as possible, to accomplish the slightest thing

Why is that funny? It is simply minding our own business, as participants in Western culture. It is up to people of other cultures to decide whether and how to change their own traditions. No need for outsiders to interfere (except perhaps in some extreme/unusual cases).


Or an autistic person with sensory issues that make it not just uncomfortable but EXTREMELY uncomfortable? Or for whom the discomfort would be a significant distraction from productivity?


I certainly do not consider the 1960's counterculture to have been "tedious." I am grateful for many (not all) aspects of it.


Washing does serve various utilitarian purposes, e.g. to eliminate or at least reduce bad odors and to reduce the spread of contagious diseases.

Music also can serve various utilitarian purposes, e.g. the right kinds of music can make it easier for a person to concentrate on one's work. (Unfortunately this varies from one person to another, so the use of music in workplaces can make some people LESS productive while making most people more productive.)


One can, however, establish the rectitude of cultural reforms in terms of first principles. This has been done many times in the past, throughout the centuries. It didn't start in the 1960's.


Actually the suit and tie, in anything even remotely resembling its current form, dates back only to sometime in the 1800's. It was a radical break from the kinds of fancy clothes worn previously by men of the upper classes.


In today's world, the idea that the Earth's resources are "fair game for everybody currently living" is OPPOSED primarily by the environmentalist/ecology movement, which received a major boost in the late 1960's and whose adherents are if anything LESS likely, not more likely, than the average person to be fond of suits and ties. In any case, wearing a suit and tie certainly does not make someone an environmentalist.

To answer the original question, I have some major beefs with contemporary women's fashion.

Specifically, the inter-related trends of (1) ultra-tight pants, as if the sole purpose of pants were to show off one's ass, and (2) the absence any pants, other than jeans, that have both pockets and belt loops.

Also, the absence of flair skirts with both pockets and belt loops.

Also, the absence of loose-fitting cotton (or other breatheable natural fiber) short-sleeved or sleeveless shirts/blouses for women.

I really wish someone in a position of influence would revive 1990's fashion. Back then, women could wear loose-fitting pants or flair skirts that were suitable for the office and had both belt-loops and functional, DEEP side pockets. Loose-fitting cotton blouses existed also.

I don't understand this either. Especially when I'm on a long bus ride and someone talks on the phone for the whole trip, or the fact that my roommate talks on the phone for several hours a day, including late at night when I want to sleep.

I keep my phone off most of the time.

How they are so enthusiastic. They act like every thought and emotion that goes through their precious lil heads is the latest greatest scientific invention.

It's their attitude

They laugh at things that are not funny

"I'm getting lunch", someone said. Then he laughed




Some ghetto lil riffraff, with nothing better to do all day long, besides bother strangers , had the nerve to tell me "just don't kill anyone". (He was referring to my facial expressions).

Wtf

Not everything has to be funny or "interesting" or exciting.

How they try to claim a disproportionate amount of credit, for the "help" they provided

Sometimes the word "help" is too strong of a word. They acted like they dragged my worthless corpse out of a burning building. All the counselor did was flap her trap at me. And the insurance paid her 75 an hour. Wtf? Her "help" is worth 20 at most. The insurance helped her 55 bucks


Reminds me when someone paid me 5 bucks for pushing his car. But it was just 3 cents of work. He helped me 4.97. it is correct to say I helped him. But misleading, vague, incomplete

People telling me to "cheer up".