What sort of people do you avoid?

yes scribbles,,,people who say, now what you SHOULD HAVE DONE as if they were right and I was wrong.

I tend to avoid people who have no other subject of conversation other than their health, which is funny really considering that both my husband and I have too many ailments to mention! However, I do always try not to bore other people with the ins and outs, but as we get older, it seems that some of us to have nothing else to talk about, which is really sad I think.

Racists, Tories, drunks and smokers

Kate1949

Know it alls. We know someone who is extremely anti Tory which is fine. However, he lectures people who disagree with him. Just before the last general election, he told a waitress in a pub that she should be ashamed of herself when they were lightheartedly discussing the outcome and she said she would vote Tory. His wife told him to keep his views to himself. He replied 'Well if I don't educate these people, who will?'

Good for him!

Only the types who ignorantly talk over you when your in mid sentence

Lathyrus3

People who insist on showing you photos of their pets and grandchildren.

It’s endless now it’s all on the phone.

They don’t seem to be interested in the pictures of my allotment 😬

so funny - especially through the Winter when it will be resting, bare and melancholy

Judy54

People who are judgemental and feel that they know what is right for you and how you should live your life. My view is get your own life in order first before judging mine.

there is a saying “ people who interfere in the lives of others have no control in their own” - bearing out your philosophy

Those would are consistently pessamistic, racists and the kind of person who always complains about something, asks my advice about how to deal with it, but never makes the attempt to do so, just comes back and complains about the same thing again.

I try not to avoid anyone and to be polite to all people but find myself biting my tongue and saying nothing at times.

Racists. However that cuts down on the pool of people available unfortunately.

People who never stop talking. I'm a quiet person and attract people who talk non stop. Their favourite letter is 'I'.

All of them. I am very antisocial.

nanna8

Oh dear- I’m a bit of a hugger. Maybe it is different where we live because many of us are. It is a normal way of greeting friends.

Yep...I was thinking a lot of the people I know are "huggers" and it was a positive "point of honour" thing during Lockdown to be that way.

On another front re people I'm not keen on are those who don't think for themselves. It's astonishing/horrifying just how many don't do so and, since moving to my current home, I've been shocked/horrified to find just how many people have been told what to think about me by my awful neighbours - and they do!!!!! This does seem to be common round here and a bit of a shock to someone who has come from an "Everyone makes up their own minds for themselves" environment - as I have. Luckily - I can see the funny side sometimes - given that years back I said a cheery hello on first encountering a nearby neighbour who I knew to be a former priest and his response was "Who might you be?" rather than an appropriate one. I duly told him "I've moved into so-and-so house" and his response was along the lines of "Oh - it's YOU!!!!! Agh". Errr....I'd never met him...it couldnt possibly have been his own opinion he was giving - but I knew just whose opinion it was that he was spouting. Cue for high amusement when the next time I saw him he was wheeling a stolen Tesco trolley through his garden to leave his rubbish for the dustbin men and giving me a "Don't you dare tell people I'm a thief!" glare at me....and that's not mentioning how he employed someone to trim trees of his at the illegal season of the year for that and it must have taken some doing for the policeman I called round to studiously avoid seeing all the resultant feathers....

Good clues about what to avoid if you don't want to be avoided yourself.

People who are very drunk as I'm very nervous around them. It's probably because I had a violent alcoholic stepmother as a child.

As many people as possible!! I'm an introvert I'm afraid. I do socialise on occasion and whrn on holiday, but I seem to know instinctively, within minutes who to avoid.

scurrilous gossips - of the vicious, jealous, poisonous, ultimately dangerous kind who once identified can be
more readily avoided

religious zealots, who readily identify themselves

vegans - see above

self aggrandising acquaintances, so tiresome

what I find difficult in life is having to deal with deeply unpleasant people who cannot be avoided unless NC

“ Hell is other people “

Bullies and gossips.

I try to avoid those who gossip about others.

You can bet your life, when you leave the room, they start talking about you too.

First post nailed it for me.

People are often surprised to hear which innate phobias we have... All others are learned

One is fear of falling and the other is loud noises. This could be why the OP and others avoid loud people.

I dont really avoid anyone, I find those that some think are bigots or opinionated have just have a different viewpoint to me, it’s their right to free speech.

Majority of politicians unless I choose to go to a specific meeting about an issue where you can hear what they say and make notes so that in the future when they backpeddle or say they never suggested something you have time and date to contradict it. Any wretched Zoom person who either is busy cutting through roots of trees whilst causing hassle and blocking people from walking on the paths whilst they wreck the pavement, or continue to knock on your door to attempt to sell you their blasted stuff. I have no problem with people asking politely if you would like to look at something or other, but dislike the ones that continue you to badger you, when they get short shrift from me as I ask them if they do not know the meaning of NO THANKYOU .

In groups, where most of you tell others in good time, if there is something worth going to or might be of interest, the person who is only interested in telling you what a great time they had had going to something that they hadnt bothered to let any of you know about!

Of course it is unlikely that I should meet such as Trump , Putin or Farage, but should I come across them would take pleasure in turning my back on them and walking away as publically as possible. Not that they would care I am perfectly aware . However it is cheering to think of doing it at some point in the future! No doubt there are more that might come to mind later.

People that are always negative and moan a lot, people that think they are superior, loud people, those with no empathy, know-it-alls, judgemental people, fake people that are nice to your face or say ooh we must do this or that and don't mean it. Hence my circle of trust is small

Loud, shrieky people who are stuck on 'transmit'.