Weirdos abound, or Elaby has comprehension issues

[elaby]

So, as caitirin said:

"P.S. Annoying bitchy girl bitched at us in the MUB for talking. Hello? Talking in the community center what is made for gathering of the community? Because she wanted to sleep. Well GO HOME to sleep. OR GO TO THE LIBRARY what is made for quiet! Do not sleep in the community center! Pain in the ass. Also do not come up to my table and beat around the bush asking "Do I know that people try to sleep here?" Yes I do. And if you want to sleep, go for it. If you want to sleep in quiet... GO SOMEWHERE QUIET! Stupid bint. [/rant]"

Yes. This was a strange thing. Number one, it's the MUB, where people talk. Number two, if people just knew how to communicate, life would be so much easier.

It went something like this:

elaby, caitirin, and hak42 - *have dinner and talk at a reasonable level about homework, mind you*
Girl - *comes over and stands beside elaby*
Elaby - *looks up*
Girl - *with not-particularly-irritated expression* Did you know that people do homework and sleep here?
Elaby - . . . *blank stare*
Girl - *waits*
Elaby - *brain whirrs* *thinks Girl is some kind of Survey Person, whose natural habitat is the MUB, asking about people who spend 24 hours a day at the MUB*
Caitirin and Hak42 - *calmly explain that there's a sign on the door that says this isn't a quiet study room and that people do group work here all the time*
Girl - *argues for a while that she was trying to sleep and got woken up*
Elaby - *brain whirrs, apparently stuck*
Caitirin and Hak42 - *respond logically that this isn't a dorm, or the library*
Girl - *goes away*
Conversation - *resumes at a lower level*
Elaby - *brain whirrs*

Later:
Elaby - *brain whirrs* *click* OH. She wanted us to be QUIET. ... Why didn't she just ask us to be quiet?

O_o;; People are weird. If somebody came up to me and said, "Could you please be a little quieter? I'm trying to sleep/study" I would say "Oh, sure! Sorry! I didn't realize we were being loud." But you come up to someone and say something roundabout or sarcastic and people will either respond in kind or misunderstand you completely.

Comments

[templarwolf.livejournal.com]

We had a rather rude professor like that show up on Saturday. he got really pissy and walked off before I can deal with him. Perhaps if he'd just spat out what he wanted us to help him with, I wouldn't have had the notion to throw him from the 5th floor railing...

[elaby.livejournal.com]

Exactly! Geez, you'd think people wouldn't have such a problem with saying what they mean.

[caitirin.livejournal.com]

Stupid BINT! She was such a pest!!!

[coastal-spirit.livejournal.com]

My GOD, you are so much like me! I can just see you looking at her with a blank expression, wondering what the hell she was getting at, and finally figuring it out when it was a little too late. The thing is, you always think people have good intentions and/or will say what they mean.

To quote Caitirin, she certainly was a stupid bint. *shakes head*

[elaby.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I DO always think people have good intentions. It's not on purpose, though O.o It just never occurs to me that someone's trying to be a jerk.

[coastal-spirit.livejournal.com]

It's not a bad quality to possess. *huggles*