HOW TO BE ANNOYING
Adjust the tint on your tv so that all the people are green, and insist to others that you "like it that way".
Drum on every available surface.
Sing the Batman theme incessantly.
Produce a rental video consisting entirely of dire FBI copy
warnings.
Sew anti-theft detector strips into people's backpacks.
Specify that your drive-through order is "to go".
Set alarms for random times.
Buy large quantities of mint dental floss just to lick the
flavor off.
Order a side of pork rinds with your filet mignon.
Instead of Gallo, serve Night Train next Thanksgiving.
Publicly investigate just how slowly you can make a "croaking"
noise.
Honk and wave to strangers.
Dress only in clothes colored Hunter's Orange.
Change channels five minutes before the end of every show.
Tape pieces of "Sweating to the Oldies" over climactic parts
of rental movies.
Wear your pants backwards.
Decline to be seated at a restaurant, and simply eat their
complementary mints by the cash register.
Begin all your sentences with "ooh la la!"
Leave someones printer in compressed-italic-cyrillic-landscape
mode.
ONLY TYPE IN UPPERCASE.
only type in lowercase.
dont use any punctuation either
Pay for your dinner with pennies.
Repeat everything someone says, as a question.
Write "X - BURIED TREASURE" in random spots on all of
someone's roadmaps.
Inform everyone you meet of your personal Kennedy
assasination/UFO/OJ Simpson conspiracy theories.
Repeat the following conversation a dozen times: "Do you hear
that?" "What?" "Never mind, it's gone now."
Light road flares on a birthday cake.
Wander around the restaurant, asking other diners for their
parsley.
Leave tips in Bolivian currency.
Demand that everyone address you as "Conquistador".
Push all the flat Lego pieces together tightly.
At the laundromat, use one dryer for each of your socks,
insisting that you WON'T have those dryers stealing your stuff.
When Christmas carolling, sing "Jingle Bells, Batman smells"
until physically restrained.
Wear a cape that says "Magnificent One".
As much as possible, skip rather than walk.
Stand over someone's shoulder, mumbling, as they read.
Sing the "This is the song that never ends..." song. (Ya know,
Lamb Chops?)
Leave your turn signal on for fifty miles.
Pretend your mouse is a CB radio, and talk to it.
Drive half a block.
Name your dog "Dog".
Inform others that they exist only in your imagination.
Ask people what gender they are.
Reply to everything someone says with "that's what YOU think."
Forget the punchline to a long joke, but assure the listener
it was a "real hoot".
Routinely handcuff yourself to furniture, informing the
curious that you don't want to fall off "in case the big one comes".
Follow a few paces behind someone, spraying everything they
touch with a can of Lysol.
Deliberately hum songs that will remain lodged in co-workers'
brains, such as "Feliz Navidad", the Archies' "Sugar" or the
Mr. Rogers theme song.
While making presentations, occasionally bob your head like a
parakeet.
Lie obviously about trivial things such as the time of day.
Make beeping noises when a large person backs up.
Leave your Christmas lights up and lit until September.
Sit in your front yard pointing a hair dryer at passing cars
to see if they slow down.
Invent nonsense computer jargon in conversations, and see if
people play along to avoid the appearance of ignorance.
Wear a LOT of cologne.
Sing along at the opera.
At a golf tournament, chant
"swing-batatatatatata-suhWING-batter!"
Finish all your sentences with the words "in accordance with
prophesy".
Go to a poetry recital and ask why each poem doesn't rhyme.
Stare at static on the tv and claim you can see a "magic
picture".
Select the same song on the jukebox fifty times.
Scuff your feet on a dry, shaggy carpet and seek out victims.
Do not add any inflection to the end of your sentences,
producing awkward silences with the impression that you'll be saying
more any moment.
Never make eye contact.
Never break eye contact.
Signal that a conversation is over by clamping your hands over
your ears.
Construct elaborate "crop circles" in your front lawn.
Give a play-by-play account of a person's every action in a
nasal Howard Cossell voice.
Holler random numbers while someone is counting.
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