What is the most annoying trait you have ever found in a friend ?
By ronnyb
@ronnyb (6113)
Jamaica
February 22, 2010 6:54am CST
We all know that your friends are not perfect and as such you just try to love them inspite of their bad traits and I guess we are able to do because you find admirable traits in them that far outweighs their bad ones .
That said I have this friend who either borrows money that he conveniently forgets to pay back back or asks me to buy something that he never repays or some other hybrid of that situation .Now I find this particularly annoying because at times I have a strict budget but he somehow never sees it from my point of view.
So what are the annoying traits in your friends and dont be shy now it doesnt mean that you dont love them ,you are just being honest and you dont have to call any names lol
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21 responses
@onlyprincess (782)
• Philippines
23 Feb 10
Hi ronny,
I find being bossy an annoying trait of a friend. who doesn't? like she is in charge of things and boss you around, I don't like that.
Another thing is being too sensitive. I have a friend whose too sensitive, you have to be careful on what you say to her coz she always misinterprets it that you're criticizing her or being against her.
@onlyprincess (782)
• Philippines
23 Feb 10
Oh, and one more thing, I don't like tattletale friends. Especially when you trust them to keep a secret or a private matter, they would blurt it out to your other friends.
@rogue13xmen13 (14402)
• United States
23 Feb 10
Something that my friends and I like to call "The Drama Llama". It is pretty much what is says. Friends who have lives that a completely full of drama, especially, unnecessary drama. People who have to have drama in their lives all of the time or else their life feels completely meaningless and unimportant. I have known people like this, and they are so negative. They bring people down. They press their problems, and their situations on people, and most people don't need more drama on top of the drama that they already have.
I am pretty tolerant of a lot of things, and I have put up with a lot in my life, but I refuse to put up with people who want make life a living Hell for everyone. These are people that no one should have in their lives.
@kprofgames (3091)
• United States
23 Feb 10
I agree with you there. It is very hard to have an adult conversation with a person that is stuck in high school. One particular person I stopped her and said - sorry how old are you? It is like they get caught up in this cycle. She has a lot of drama people in her family. Nice person but she slips into it all too easily. I like her, but it can be exhausting talking to her when she is 'in it'.
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
22 Feb 10
I don't think he is much of a friend to do u that way, ronnyb. I would quit lending him money. Most of my friends do not irritate me. I did have one lady that i use to do her hair that called me & griped about everything, a very negative person. She doesn't call anymore & i am glad.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
24 Feb 10
The most annoying trait that I have observed in any of my friends is the ones that are always making plans to do something together and then always end up cancelling the plans on the day that the event was supposed to happen. This doesn't mean that I no longer wish to be friends with this person, but I can tell you that it drives me up the wall when I tell my children that we are going to be doing something and then she always cancels the plans.
@summer77 (414)
• Philippines
22 Feb 10
I have friend before, we were so close friends but now we seldom see each other. I understand the imperfections as I myself isn't perfect, too. But what annoys me about him is that he is so moody. He's in good mod then suddenly if something little went wrong he will mean it and becomes silent or angry something. Really moody. And also I had a friend too in high school, he is also moody until now, though not as much as before but he is still moody, like you are going to be afraid to approach him, you can never tell if he's in good mood or not. LOL. But it's just the way it is. Got to know how to deal with different people.
@silentjon1111 (2)
• United States
22 Feb 10
well the most annoying trait for a friend to have is thinking that they know everything or like being a know it all .
@xParanoiax (6987)
• United States
23 Feb 10
It annoys me when friends act like they know everything or have to be right.
Arrogance and ignorance usually disquilifies people from being friends with me.
But yeah...I get annoyed at people with that kind of attitude, and I normally have to just smile and politely hint otherwise.
@kprofgames (3091)
• United States
23 Feb 10
Well, to be honest when a person that i know becomes annoying or the habits start to come out that overtax me as a friend - we aren't friends anymore. I've read through a few lines here and have to say that I've experienced things like most of the others have.
If people borrow money all the time, don't pay for anything - those kinds of people usually find someone else then to be 'friends' with so they can use them. If the continuously talk about themselves, then I limit my time with them.
I think a lot of it is setting up boundries that you know you won't cross, yes I'm am a friend, but how long will this friendship last if they are co-dependent on me?
@geniustiger (1694)
• Philippines
23 Feb 10
Annoying traits of my friend is in times I need
help she cannot see and lend her shoulder to lean on.
Borrowing something from me and not thinking the owner
that cares it a lot . When she returned it something
differs to the things it is not in the proper face,
not the actual image of the item. I'm so worried for I care
it and the borrower not cared it.
She is only good for me if she has interest on me or plan to
ask help and something but in my case she will not listen properly
and react immediately and dont extend some pity or help.
That's the thing I got hurt to her that he thinks for her
personal needs only not to the one comforting and helping her.
@much2say (55901)
• Los Angeles, California
23 Feb 10
If I can only pick one annoying trait that I have found in a friend, it'd have to be the ME factor. Me, me, me. All they do is talk about themselves and go on and on about themselves that they don't realize they are losing their audience (but as their friends, we listen to them anyway). I have too many friends who dump their problems on me . . . but perhaps part of that is because I actually listen to them . . . so it's actually me who gives into this trait. I just get peeved when they don't share the time to ask me how I am.
@Sophie2010 (144)
• China
23 Feb 10
I can't bear the trait of my friend is suspicion.I have a good friend before but she suspected I have uncommon relationship with her "boyfriend",actually she just admired him and didn't have the specific relationship with the boy. I get hurt after that time and I don't want to talk to her anymore.And sometimes I think I just have a fake smile to her.
@beauty_denia (41)
• Philippines
23 Feb 10
Well i have a friend who uses my stuff without even asking my permission it really annoys me, what makes the matter worst she likes to do and dress up like my style. I had a friend, thank goodness we are no longer friend who stayed with me in my pad, uses my stuff, consumes my grocery supply, doesn't pay the water and electric bills, borrows money and the worst and saddest part he withdraw a huge amount in my card. I never accused him of stealing anything, what bugs me is his initial reaction when i found out that i lost a huge amount in my card. It is not a normal reaction for him to scold and talks nasty things about me who help and accepts him whole heartedly. I've forgiven him for all his wrong doings, but I can't forget how he accused me of using my lost money and saying nasty things, when in fact when i lost my money i never accused him. It was his reaction that makes me think different and confirmed something.
@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
22 Feb 10
Answering on your behalf! I had a friend once who if anyone would ask me a question he would immediately respond without me giving a chance to answer when I had been asked the question in the first place not him. Once I was asked something that I thought was too personal to respond to and he jumps in and tells them what I didn't want to reveal in the first place! I did pull him up about it a few times, it's like hang on, I'm an adult here NOT a child. I think the friendship ended because that is exactly what I thought he thought I was a child not an adult, and that too me is very very patronizing.
@bestboy19 (5478)
• United States
22 Feb 10
I have a friend who uses her disability, or what is called her disability, to help herself to the taxpayers hard earned money. You might say, "So what if she's really disabled." The problem is, she's not disabled to the point where she can't work, and at 36, she has never had a job in her life. She has put nothing in to the system, but she thinks she has the right to take 500 dollars a month out. Now she's trying to get money from her father's social security. If she was truly disabled I wouldn't mind her getting disability cheques, but she isn't. There is no reason why she can't get a job, she just chooses not to. I know she's not the only person doing this. Even so, it's angering to those of us who have seen our tax dollars going to deadbeats.
@Sandra1952 (6047)
• Spain
22 Feb 10
Hello, Ronny. I have a very good friend who has the annoying habit of reading things out of the newspaper. She doesn't just read a summary, either - it's the whole article, whether you're interested or not. Telling her to shut up doesn't work, and if you take the paper away from her, she looks all hurt. I've tried to tell her how annoying it is, and so have other people, but she can't seem to help herself.
@jaiho2009 (39141)
• Philippines
22 Feb 10
hello ronnyb,
The most annoying trait that my friend has is...she is too noisy.
She's so much talkative that she can't control her speaking.
She's not aware is she's disturbing other people,or,she's in a place that has sign like "observe silence",and this made me feels ashamed when people were looking at us.
Even if i give her some sign to keep quiet,ok...she will remain silent for few minutes,and then again...here she goes again with her loud voice.
And i just don't know why she's always like that,even if some friends were telling her that,she needs to keep silent sometimes
@bamikalipal (588)
• Philippines
23 Feb 10
Right, my friends are not perfect and neither am I.
I do not have the patience to put up with a friend who thinks that I have to spend a day-off talking to her on the phone for hours. I have better things to do than listen to her, telling me about the things that she knows, not once but countless times; asking questions to see if I know the answers; enumerating the things that she has done for others, including what she has done for me; complaining about friends who are ungrateful; telling me what and what not to do; asking me to go to her place because she has something for me to do. Because she had done me favors, she thinks that I should be at her beck and call, forgetting that I have also done her favors, favors that other friends couldn't do for her.
One weekend, I refused to go to her place because I had more urgent matters to take care of. That was the end of our friendship, she refused to talk to me ever again.
Friendship is give and take, friendship is also about respect. We need to understand that our friends have lives of their own and their own set of priorities.
Losing her friendship does not make me sad, sorry to say. Looking back, I realize that she was not a good friend, to say the least.
Anyway, have a great day, ronnyb and good luck with your friends
@freeboy90 (456)
• Italy
22 Feb 10
I can't stand arrogant and egocenric people and too bad for me, one of my best friends is a concentrate of that many times, he can be very very funny and we share the same sense of humor, but beacause of how arrogant and egocentric he can get at times we get often into fights as well. another trait I dislike quite a lot is when people tend to lie or make up stories.