People who rub things in your face

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One of my biggest pet peeves is when someone is not interested in you and then prove it by rubbing other friendships in your face.

Why does someone need to rub something in your face just to prove that they aren't interested.

Of course I had an immediate visual:



But ahem, they are showing themselves to be an individual with no class and must be ignored.

I recently had that happen to me just recently-it hurts quite a bit to say the least.

I don't understand. Can you please give an example?

I'm with you, MCG, I don't understand.

I think ST means when someone "pointedly" ignores you by talking to or interacting with to another person, when you're standing right there next to them. The usual scenario I remember from high school was:

1) approach person
2) make an opening statement to them
3) person looks at you, then turns and begins talking with someone else who is nearby
4) person continues conversation with that other person, while pretending that you aren't right there
5) and maybe they talk about some in-group stuff to reinforce that you are excluded from the conversation

It's really rude behavior.

Oh! Yes. I used to do this all the time because I hated when new people would come up because I didn't know how to include them properly. Then I read in a book that it's rude and I stopped doing it. Lost a lot of friends that way.

Give them a lashing and they'll never forget your face.

Wow I took the title of this thread literally, i.e. things as in actual objects.

It happens to me repeatedly, usually at work. I go in one of the offices to see someone because I need to ask them a question. That person is talking non stop to someone else and I'm waiting awkwardly beside them to ask the question or whatever, it's not a meeting or anything, just a social conversation. This would last for 15 minutes, 20 minutes or even more. At least if I allowed it to anyway, because I just refuse to play the game that is being played with me, and so won't wait more than about a minute and a half, else I just go off and do something else. I don't care if it's an important question that remains unanswered, not looking awkward and not looking like a dork are more important to me. Of course I could interrupt, it would be the only other way, but it would be considered/called out as rude and plus, all this time there literally is absolutely no space in the conversation to get a word in.

Huh. That happens to me all the time. I never thought anything of it.