Sometimes do people just???

yes. Sometimes people grate on my last nerve...no suggestions here.

most of the people I work with get on my nerves. I try not to let is show. But lately I just can't help myself but to show they are annoying me.

I try to rise above them - and not let their actions bother me, or ruin my day~

Me I just forget they are there..they give up for a while..

Most definitely. I've learned the art of patience and how to take a deep breath, letting it all go.

I have just had this happen today...and I have a terrrrrible headache from it.... I didn't know what to do and just gave up.

The people I used to work with were the worst. I constantly had to "bite my tongue." I didn't always succeed!

yes and I get so aggravated and want to scream

I have no good thoughts I am sorry to say because I only have bad thoughts about people who annoy me! :-( I am sorry that I am no help at all! Usually I try to just leave the vicinity of the annoying people!


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I feel you

I just tell them right now I am busy so I will talk to you later or ask if they mind leaving.

I avoid them until I am in a better mood. lol
It would depend on who it was I suppose.
(and how often they got on my nerves)
Is it lots of people, a few or just one?

I usually pretend I am very busy and they get the hint and get on their way.

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Oh definitely, but how I deal with it depends on who it is and where I am. If I'm at work I just try to ignore them, and if it's possible I'll see if there's a way for them to stop doing what is annoying me (ex. whistling).

If I'm at my house and my mom and sister are bothering me, I usually just put my music on.

I try limit the time I spend with the person and if this isn't possible, I politely asked them to stop doing what's buggin me. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. If it does great...if it doesn't I excuse myself and leave.

I guess it really depends on the situation. At work, when someone is paying me to deal with irritants, I suck it up and deal if it's a "fly-by' that I won't see too often, knowing they'll be out of my life in moments and not worth the stress. If it's someone who I have to interact with on a regular basis, again, I deal, but I also tend to whine about it later to a sympathetic ear just to get it out of my system. That usually helps put things in perspective and often results in a good laugh at the expense of the other person's foibles.

If it's a neighbor, I try negotiating ("You be a good neighbor and I will continue to be a good neighbor.") If that doesn't work I retaliate, one way or the other ("You keep blaring your stereo, slamming doors, pounding your feet on stairwells, parking your cars in my parking spot, etc. you'll regret it."). Most of the time the former works. However, one often does not have much success negotiating with either college students - especially graduate students from India - or drug dealers. I've lived above both with about the same results.

Family members are easy. "Knock it off" usually works.

ha ha ceena

I teach and there are days when the kids get on my nerves, but if I snap at them I feel guilty. If it's one kid I like to give them a silly nickname that will make me smile. I had a student who was a real stinker and I gave him the name Chet (they're Korean and they usually want an English nickname). Chet is the name of a character on Emergency who was a stinker and when ever I got mad at Chet I would yell "Chester P. Kelly!" Chet hardly recognized it as his name and it always made me laugh. Right now when my whole class gets noisy I do the Verison thing, "Can you hear me now?" I say it in a normal tone of voice because yelling just jacks up my blood pressure and makes everything worse. Saying "can you hear me now?" until they quiet down enough to say yes amuses me.

My other option was something I read years ago in an interview with a negotiator. It was someone who negotiated peace treaties and things like that. He said that his strategy for when things got hot was to look at it from the balcony. He would pull himself out of the middle of everything and mentally get some space. I use this on my boss all the time. I get angry about something and then I try to look at it from a distance and figure out what she's thinking and what she needs. It doesn't mean that I let her off because she had a troubled childhood or anything, but it does help me get an angle I can use on her. When I was angry about another teacher embarrassing me in front of the students I didn't present it as something that was just bad for me (because she doesn't really care about that) but as something that the kids would go home and tell their parents (which is her worst nightmare.) It's manipulative, but it works.

I write about those people on Gather! ;-)

That's what families are for! Sometimes I think my mom was a dog in her previous life -- she's always barking at something, even if it's the squirrel that's getting maple seeds out of the eave spout! The other day she actually scared the letter carrier lady, but not on purpose. I think she needs her own broadcasting station. Or does she even need an amplifier? Thanks for posting this and for the inspiration!