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People Break Down The Times They Realized They Hated Someone In Less Than A Minute

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Reddit user dirty_maria asked: 'Have you ever listened to someone talk for less than a minute and immediately felt like you wouldn't get along with them? What did they say?'

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We've all heard of love at first sight.

Hate at first sight is less common, but it does happen (though it's not always described that way).

Sometimes, two people don't mesh well. They could never get along, even if they were the last two people on Earth, and its usually because one of them said or did something during their first interaction that rubbed the other person the complete wrong way.

Redditors know this all to well and are ready to share their stories.


It all started when Redditor dirty_maria asked:

"Have you ever listened to someone talk for less than a minute and immediately felt like you wouldn't get along with them? What did they say?"

Too Young, Too Dumb

"I heard a 20 year old girl at my job trying to talk down to another guy because he's in his 40s with no kids."

""You're 40 with no kids! What do you know about the world?" in the most hateful tone. I've never spoken to her before and never will."

– tiamat-45

"I really wish that having kids made people smarter!"

– Witty_Commentator

Not Funny

"I'm Asian and upon meeting me, for some reason a lot of people like to open up with a racist Asian joke and tell me that their Asian friend thinks the joke is hilarious. I have never ended up getting along with those people."

– prolixity

I'll Choose My Own Food, Thanks

"“I already decided what to order, and sorry not sorry if you’re offended, but we’re gonna eat what I’m ordering. You’ll thank me for it.”"

"This was a person I was meeting for the first time"

– FlagshipHuman

"That basically ruins my opinion of the person AND the food."

– Cjhwahaha

Don't Tell Me What I Love

"A friend introduced me to a stranger at a party and said we should get along great since we were both into music. The stranger was in a band and I used to work as a sound/lighting tech. He asked why I quit music and I told him I got sick of working every single weekend and making garbage pay. I enjoy shows far more as an attendant than a worker."

"He responds: "oh, you don't love music. Which is ok, it's just that if you really loved music you would have stuck it out. For me I couldn't live without music, it's just different.""

"It took about 15 seconds of conversation to realize the dude was f**king insufferable"

– skazai

From Bad To Worse

"I was on a date once and she just started negging* me from the get go. I mistakenly picked her up and had to just listen to her talk about herself, any time I’d get a word in she’d neg."

"About lost it when I was feeling a good cheese slice at the niche New York style pizza place we went to. She said I had bad taste in pizza and actually needed to start going to XYZ."

"Started talking about the beer I chose and then joked to the waitress about me. Then asked me if I wanted to move in as her roommate was moving soon and she was joking but not joking."

– UncoolSlicedBread

Liar, Liar

"She was in a writers group. The comment was made that Finnegans Wake by James Joyce is a classically difficult book to get through."

"She opened with, actually she found it very easy in fact, a friend of hers was a lecturer in (nearby famous university) and he often came to her for insights into Joyce's work."

"I suspected immediately a narcissist, pathological liar. I was right. She earned the nickname amongst the group of "11", as in, if you said you'd been to Tenerife, she would say she had been to Elevenarife."

– jrf_1973

Some People Should Not Be Teachers

"My old French teacher in I think 8th grade. It took her not even 5 minutes for us to hate her. "I dont like any of you, I'm not your friend but a teacher to annoying brats. You'll do as I say when I say it and complainers get a 6 (Equivalent to an F) for this class." Her husband was a pretty cool guy though."

– FanStrong3311

Nepotism Makes The World Go Round

"Foremans nephew/ owners son (exchangeable for anyone who uses family ties to get a promotion)"

"I'm in the union so you have to technically work your way up as a laborer no matter what because raises come fron hours worked along with courses completed."

"Anyways i was a lead on a large college campus for the State and we have this lil chubby 19 year old laborer with a bad attitude start at the site one day so i get him what he needs tool wise and tell him that material needs to be cleaned on the 9th floor using buggies. He immediately launches into this " yeah well my dad is the foreman of this job and youre just a lead so ill just go to him so i dont have to do (xyz) job""

"After staring at him until he started to get noticably uncomfortable i asked him if this was his first day doing this? He replied "yeah why?""

"I told him he can go on and get the f**k home until hes ready to be a team player. Ive worked with his dad for many years and knowing his work ethics and moral compass for leadership he would understand my decision. His son calls him down on the radio with a smirk on his face thinking that i just made the worst career move of my life."

"When his dad arrives he asks what happened, i explain curtly exactly as it happened and he immediately turns to his boy and said " well ....why the f**k are you still standing here? He told you to go home, if you dont want to listen you can't be on the team. Dad isnt going to save you""

"Last i heard he gave up his dreams of being a foreman and works for Tesla now"

– GazeOG

Woe Is She

"After Hurricane Sandy I spent a lot of weekends cleaning out houses. It is difficult and backbreaking work, but also terribly sad. Because we just bring snow shovels into houses and throw everything away. What used to be someone's home, their whole life is now stinking moldy garbage."

"I was talking to a woman at a Christmas party about how difficult Hurricane Sandy was and she said. "I don't feel like I have had enough recognition for how I suffered! I called the mayor, I called the governor, and no one cares about my suffering." So I thought I would talk to her about it."

""Was your home flooded" -No"

""Did you have a generator" -Yes, two"

""Was it really difficult to get gas for them?" -No, my husband is a first responder so we were able to jump the lines"

""It must have been hard though, to have lost power." -So hard that after 2 days I went and stayed with family at a hotel."'

"So this woman lost nothing, didn't have to wait in the hours long line for fuel and spent most of the time in a hotel. And was pissed because the governor didn't acknowledge personally her suffering."

– RoyGBiv1488

Place Items Gently On The Conveyer Belt

"I can tell almost immediately by the way a customer walks up to the register whether or not they're going to be an a**hole."

– tubular1845

"Yep. I'm a cashier too. They don't even have to speak. When they toss their items on the counter, that tells me everything I need to know. It takes everything I have some days not to toss their money right back at them. The customers that face all the barcodes up make up for those AH's."

– Relative-Read-2937

The Company Man

"I don’t like Company Men, or people who defend the company and higher ups to no end. For example, in a meeting one time an experienced Company Man starting ripping into someone who works in another department in front of everyone over a trivial thing that has no effect on Company Man."

"After the meeting I expressed an opinion that the person was being rude, condescending, an unprofessional to a couple of coworkers that were in the room. They started defending said behavior. Instantly turned me off."

"Turns out corporate agreed with me and that person has since "retired.""

– jcm8002204

Keeps Your Eyes On Your Own Table

""I believe that I have a much more developed palate than most people", said in a very condescending, loud voice at a restaurant."

"From the guy who was at the next table when I said that oysters aren't my cup of tea."

– Nearby-Ear-883

""You seem to also have a much more developed ability to stick your nose where it doesn't belong""

– thedoobalooba

Will You Carry On My Bloodline?

"I knew a lady who, upon meeting her, told me that she was related to two people who signed the Declaration of Independence, which meant she had an important bloodline that she couldn't let die out."

"I knew she was an idiot at that point, but she then went on to say that because her autistic brother died, she had to be the one to carry on the bloodline and give them her last name, and said she'd use a surrogate if her major birth defects wouldn't let her conceive, staring hard at me with a weird smile on her face."

"Yes, she lore dumped her life and wanted me to carry her hypothetical heir in the two minutes after we met."

– Ravenamore

Yikes! I can't even believe this happened!

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