Getting under someone’s skin

My initial thoughts about writing a how-to paper, was that it would be easy. The paper does not have to flow as well as other papers. This paper is about the facts, where other papers are about things that did not and will not actually happen. I liked the fact that this would be a more factual writing assignment. My partner and I came up with the topic because nether one of us truly cared what we wrote about. Tim suggested that we should write about this topic and I agreed because there would be lots of ways we could write about of how to annoy someone.

            One of the main obstacles that we encountered when writing this paper was how to write a paper with a partner. We did not know if the paper would be better if we wrote the paper together with one person typing or if we should both write a part and then combine it at the end. If we wrote the paper together, one person would end up doing a lot of the work, and the paper would all have the same kind of tone. If each of use wrote part of the paper and then it was put together the paper would not flow as well as we wanted it to. The good part about this was, however, that each of us would end up doing the same amount of work. In the end we decided to each write part of the paper and put it together. Another obstacle we encountered during our writing was that it was difficult to come up with ways to annoy people. The easy part for my partner and I during this assignment was coming up with details for the main concepts of annoying someone.

            One revision that I would make to the paper now is to add a conclusion. Our paper has no conclusion and I believe that when we were writing it we simply forgot to add a conclusion. A possible conclusion could be 

Annoying someone is something you can do almost anywhere at any time. It can be some thing you do to simply pass the time or you can annoy someone if they are annoying you. There are many reasons that you can use the following types. A word of warning however would be that if you annoy someone too much they will no longer be your friend. No one wants a friend that is constantly annoying them and they will probably think that you do not like them. The technique of annoying someone will work if you are fed up with someone and want them to leave you alone for a while.

 Another thing that we could change in our essay is to add more examples of the ways to annoy someone. We could give examples of what to say to people to annoy them and examples of what to take of theirs to annoy them. In addition, to revise this paper we could add pictures of how to annoy someone. This could let the reader visualize more what to do to annoy someone. Lastly we need to add a title to our essay. A possible title for this essay is tips for ticking someone off. 

Annoying people is a type of art. Annoyers are like musicians; with the nerves of other people as their instrument. There are many practical reasons to bother someone. Annoying is a great way to pass time and get a kick out of the reactions of other people. It is also a very effective technique to use to get revenge on someone. By using the following methods, you can irritate a person to the breaking point. Be careful and have fun!

1. Talking. If you want to annoy someone without any physical movement, try talking. The only muscle moving is your mouth yet the amount of annoyance you can generate is unlimited. Here are a few ways you can really tick someone off:

·        Talk only about yourself every time you meet a person. Make topics of conversation either really uncomfortable (how your trip to the bathroom went) or boring (how your cat walked around the room). Do this over and over and repeat yourself often for optimum success. Ensure that you do not register anything the person you intend to annoy says, keep the focus purely on yourself.

·        Be extremely obnoxious. When you have a conversation interrupt often and make comments really immature or really irrelevant to what is going on. Be loud. Space out your obnoxious interruptions to every couple of sentences. You can even repeat yourself.

·        Repeat one thing constantly. This is could be done by simply saying a word non-stop.  It’s pretty certain that if all you say to a person is “rat”, for even as short a time as 20 minuets, that person would be prepared to rip your tongue out.

·        Make horrible jokes. It helps if they are a little perverted. Immaturity is a key factor here. Repeat the same joke often. It also helps to include the person in your horrible jokes, but it is not essential.

2. Touching. This does not require a word and is the easiest way to annoy the crap out of someone. Almost everyone has a “personal bubble” that, if penetrated, causes much annoyance.
• Poking. This technique requires never ending jabbing of your finger in any part of other person’s body that is open (usually the ribs). Poke at timed intervals. Continue even if the person tells you to stop and you are almost guaranteed at punch in the face.
• Rubbing. Nothing freaks people out more than getting randomly massaged. There are a few things to keep in mind: back rubs are usually tolerated, moving down, however, like to the upper stomach or lower back area, causes a freak response and much wanted irritation. Be careful! Sometimes the person you try to annoy using this method could actually be a freak and enjoy it. Run if that person tries to return the favor.
• Standing too close. This has to be done multiple times. The response is usually violent, so be ready to tussle with the person you intend to annoy. This method is pretty easy to perform. Just stand really really close behind someone. It could help to breathe heavily on their ears or the back of their neck. It usually takes only 2 seconds for a response.

Ignoring To annoy someone and at the same time be slightly mean you should have no contact with them and pretend they do not exist.

• Talk to every one else that is there except for the person that you are trying to ignore. If the person is near try to get into a deep conservation with a person so there is no opportunity for the person to get involved in the conservation. If they try to get into the conservation do not let them and continue talking only to one person.
• Avoid the person you are trying to Ignore, walk in the opposite direction when they approach you and sit as far away form them as possible. If you want to make it obvious that you are ignoring them do not even make eye contact with them. 
• If they ask you a direct question ignore them and start talking with someone else. Do not answer the question and pretend that they are not even standing there.

Taking some thing of someone’s This will annoy some one and is especially effective if you are sitting with a person at a table with a lot of stuff on it that is harmless to take but will make them fret.

·        When the person is not looking or not paying attention take one of their belongings and hide it some where. Wait for the person to leave the room or get up to get some thing.

·        The possession should be some thing that they will notice is missing and want back. If is not an obvious thing they may never know that it has been taking and not ask for it back. This will not accomplish your goal of trying to annoy them.

·        You can hide the belonging any where you want it can be on your person or some where else but it should be some where safe so the it dose not get stolen or ruined.

·        When the person starts to inquire where their belonging is try to act like you do not know what they are talking about and claim you had nothing to do with the disappearance of their object. This works well if there are a lot of people that could have taken the object so it is not obvious that you took the object.