Do you think people specifically agitate other people?

Some personalities are just more assertive and flamboyant than others.
I am very outgoing and love to make conversation and jokes with strangers, but, I am not obnoxious nor attention seeking. The woman was probably just having a moment of thinking out loud and maybe she was fishing for a reaction but, oh well….we can choose to engage or not.

I love encountering playful and friendly personalities but have zero interest in a bitch fest with a stranger.

Back in the 80’s I was a realtor but stayed working at Sears 8 hours a week to keep my insurance. In those days we carried pagers.
A lady saw my pager and went on and on about how stupid it was for a clerk at Sears to be wearing a pager. She wouldn’t let up, even when I told her I was a realtor. One of the rudest people I have ever encountered and I probably had way more money than her.

There are definitely types who agitate others on intentionally, out of meanness or spite or insensitivity or just for the fun and challenge; and there are those who do it unintentionally, without a clue about how or why. We’ve all bumped into both types, and I daresay most of us have, on occasion, pissed the hell out of somebody, a stranger or loved one, on purpose or by accident. Heaven knows I have.

Bull’s Penis! ROFLLL!

Yes, there seem to be people who enjoy it. Like, you might glance at them for a second, like you would glance at anyone, and they’ll snarl “What’re you looking at??”

Thanks jellies :) I was kind of dumbfounded for the moment by the pet store girl :/ I have to admit.

I myself am personally a vegetarian but I get the whole meat eating thing I once was a meat eater also ;)

I am a very sensitive person, I have realized I am probably over sensitive.

Being too sensitive is what brought me to close my fluther account once before.

Sometimes I just need to hear other peoples experiences for the “therapy of it all”. Thanks jellies, your answers mean so much to me.

Retail jobs are thankless and very boring. Some people just can’t handle it, and feel the need to act out. It’s terrible customer service for someone at the till to talk “around” you the way she did. I’m guessing you didn’t rise to take the bait, which would only have granted her wish to know that she pissed you off.

I also think I am way too sensitive and find myself getting sucked in to others “stuff.” I think the person was displaying their stuff when she made that comment. Now part of me would have wanted to get into her face and display my stuff while responding. But…..I believe a healthy person would be able to just ignore the whole damned situation, they would not respond, dwell on it, replay it in their head, etc.. and just get on with their life. That is what I try to do. Sometimes I succeed, sometimes not.

Some people are dicks. What can you do… I’d just ignore the fool.

Yeah, that wouldn’t fly with me at all.

People’s insensitivity to others floor me. I don’t get it.

Faced with such a situation, I look at them as if they were ridiculous and grin. They want an audience? Igive it to them without saying a word.

“Isn’t it just great that I’m feeding my dog bulls penis!”
“Really? Then what are you giving your pussy?”

We had an “engineer” at work who wouldn’t listen to any clear headed suggestion that came from my work group, and at the meetings with him we ended up just trying to piss him off.

i actually think that woman’s comment was a hoot

I know I do so, yeah I would say so.