My Worst Nightmare

Before I begin, I would sincerely hope that others will be able to relate to this as opposed to thinking I'm some crazy bitch. I'm not a crazy bitch. :)

I'm usually a very peaceful person. I admit if someone does something cruel to me I am liable to throw some kind of fit, whether it be in the confines of my own home or in the other person's presence. That exception aside, I tend to be kind to everyone and I've learned to tolerate those who get on my nerves...until recently.

I've stumbled upon the one person I cannot tolerate. He's rude, he's ignorant, he's cocky, he's disrespectful, he's chauvinistic, he's lazy, he's arrogant and he's all around just an absolute moron. He embodies every quality I despise in human beings.

All he has to do is sit down next to me in class and I can feel my blood pressure shoot through the roof. The sound of his voice makes me want to punch him in the face. I am by no means a violent person on any normal occasion, but for whatever reason this kid gets to me.

I hear him typing at the computer next to me and even THAT makes me angry. He types with his fingers so heavy on the keyboard even the act of pressing on the proper letters seems like a task too challenging for his lazy ass. Then, on the off chance it aggravates me enough to shoot a glance his way and I see the things he's written on his monitor, every word is misspelled. The grammar is awful, the words are used in the wrong context, and there is complete lack of punctuation. Anyone who knows me knows that butchering the English language is enough to drive me insane.

Even when I don't have to deal with the sound of his lead fingers slowly punching out the misspelled words appearing on his monitor, he finds ways to irritate me to the point of digging my nails into the sides of my desk chair. There isn't a day when his iPod headphones aren't streaming from the hood of his jacket. Mid-lecture his music can be heard from rows of students away. I understand a love of music, but when it's disrupting someone else it's just rude. Headphones were invented so others wouldn't have to hear your shitty rap music.

That's another thing! When his typing has ceased and his music has been turned off he is constantly writing lyrics to made up raps. I understand chasing a dream, but it disrupts class, bothers everyone around him, and he's not even any good at it. He lacks the vocabulary to make decent rhymes and he copies rhythms from songs that are played daily by Kiis FM, Power 106, and Amp radio. No one wants to hear you muttering your amateur lyrics under your breath all period long.

Maybe now my disclaimer at the beginning of this giant, unwarranted rant makes some more sense. I honestly don't even know this person very well. We share a class and are forced to sit next to each other for an hour each day. I felt even more out of line about my feelings towards this guy until I asked my other classmates what they thought of him. I got similar, yet slightly less loathsome, reactions to mine. No one can stand the kid.

That gives me a little peace of mind, knowing that the problem lies more in him than it does in me, but I'm still appalled at how much I can dislike someone I don't even know. I suppose some people just don't mesh well together, and I must say, this tirade has helped calm me quite a bit so it can't be completely terrible...right?