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I can't stand people that don't smile/laugh. It's not that everyone on Earth needs to laugh at my lame jokes, but at the very least don't go around looking hostile. It makes people uncomfortable. Even more so if they're giving a presentation. I hate it when people don't even try to pretend to be listening. Every time I give a presentation a small piece of my soul dies and a white hair spouts from my head.

It's very easy for me to distinguish between a good person and someone that I wouldn't want to be friends with. This is how people describe me: fun/funny, cool, easy to talk to. Probably the dullest adjectives ever, but I'll take it. The thing is because I am easy to talk to people come up to me and start complaining about their lives without me asking. I then have to pretend like I'm interested and it drains a lot of energy. These people are the ones that I don't want to be around. Too much negativity--and that's coming from a realist! I facilitate the conversation and I gauge responses (yes, my whole life is a research experiment; I am also currently testing mileage of gas from different gas stations, 76 is in the lead). However, if--that is, IF by chance they don't start complaining then we can probably become pretty good friends. Like I said, IF. Uh... last time I met someone like this... well it's been a while. But, there's an exception. The other end of the spectrum, those ridiculous optimists that can't take a joke... I can't be friends with them either. If you don't get my sarcastic humor we can't be friends.

Last thing. There's this thing that I do when I'm walking and I was wondering if anyone else does it... I pretend to look at my phone, but I'm actually looking at the road in front of me. If I happen to see someone that I want to talk to then I'll approach them, but if not then I'm definitely busy.