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Earlier today, I had to go through something irritating and cumbering, and while it certainly wasn't the first time I've had to say "no," it's becoming increasingly ridiculous on how pestilent some people can get.


When I tell someone, "no," or any other variant of the negative, it's usually understood, and the topic at hand is dropped, and life goes on.

But there were two recent cases - one from earlier today and another a few days ago - where the ideal scenario did not apply, and my patience had been stretched and then snapped in both.

Scene 1: Yours truly is asked to be someone's prom date.

"Do you want to go to prom with me?"
"No, but thank you for asking, and I'm not even going to prom anyway."
"Well, that's too bad, because you're going since I already bought the tickets."
"Then do go ask someone else because I will not be going to prom."
"You're going with me. Why don't you want to go?"
"I am not going with anyone and I am not going to prom. I don't want to go because I have other plans, and I don't socialize much to begin with, so it would be miserable for me. If you keep on insisting, then you will not only be harassing me, but you'll be forcing me to attend something against my will."
"That's too bad because I am going to make you go."
"Do you not understand? I do not and will not go to prom."
"Why not? It's because I'm Mexican, huh? You don't want to go with a Mexican guy and you're all 'Ew' just because it's me, huh?"
"You've gone completely off on a stupid whim! I said I do not want to go at all. I don't care if you asked or my next door neighbor asked, I would still say "no" to the both of you."
"Okay, fine. I won't go to prom either."
"..."
"I mean I'll just go ask someone else."

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It probably wouldn't have been so much of a pain in the ass if I hadn't known a few other things that led up to that nettlesome phone call:

• He had the nerve to go ask a friend of mine to pass on a message: I should "call him when [I] have the time"
• He still had the nerve to ask another classmate to call me and to have said classmate tell me "Can you call (insert name here)? It's an emergency."
• Following that, I received a bloody text message on my mobile, and I wondered just how did this fucktard get my cell phone number before he made the call leading to that perversive conversation.

Yes, dearies, when I refuse and have the courtesy to add a thank you to the end of my "no," please just accept it and avoid making yourself look like a fucking idiot by doing otherwise.


Now let me move onto the next tirade which really covers for more than a specific case since such occurrences have happened more than once where interested party members chose to "pursue" their interests by giving me hell.

Scene 2: When yours truly is confessed to.

When I am told, "I like you," by some bloke or another and the fellow looks at me expectantly for an answer, I respond with, "I'm flattered, but I do not feel the same." Naturally, my response is followed with a, "Why not?" To my horror and dismay, a "You don't like me at all do you?" is added with a pity look in most of the cases.

Oh, the obstinacy of the dense. Woe, angst.

First of all, any "like" (read: tolerance) I may have had for that person goes out the window and suicides in the process because of the stupid question thrown on to the end. I personally believe it is legitimate to enquire for a 'why not' reason, but it's just fuckwittedness that brings on the second enquiry.

I see it as a rhetorical question because if I didn't even remotely "like" someone, I would probably do everything in my power to avoid encountering the unliked person at all so a conversation involving the confession of feelings that are or aren't existing wouldn't even be exchanged.
Nevertheless, my replies tend to follow something along the lines of "I am not interested since I know nothing about you" which is quite justifiable when I barely interact with the person. If there is any interaction, there's the chance that the interaction is muted because I simply do not like to deal with people who do not share any of my interests and with people who do not have any comprehension for anything other than sex, drugs, bitches, and jocks and also speak like they cannot differentiate between English and Engrish, and I certainly do not feel compelled to be chums with people who invoke the urge in me to bludgeon them with a copy of The Origins of Species while screaming, "You're an abhorrence to science, you quirk of nature!"

I have actually had to deal with this crap online, too, which is less chagrining I imagine for the rejected parties but just as frustrating for me to handle.

Online or offline, the pestering and stubbornness of those who do not leave me alone afterwards results in an irate me and a me hoping they would all die a death by a thousand stag beetles. Because jamming your fucking emotions down a person's throat won't endear you any to him or her.

Please, if you cannot even type out a complete thought without the addition of 'lol' to every other line or say "Czechoslovakia" without stuttering like mad, and if you do not know even know who Auden is, then don't develop any fondness for me or even seek my companionship out for that matter.

Granted I'm currently as pleasant as a flyblown donkey from having just woke up in low blood pressure demon mode and finding myself in the crossfire of a petty argument between my parents, but my points are still fucking valid in that I hate people of epic fail and I don't want to be liked by people I loathe.