Why do people keep pushin' my buttons?

Badgers

I gotta ask this as it's drivin' me mad here. Every day it's the same thing, always the people and them pushin' my buttons. You know, I try to be polite, I try to smile and maybe pass the time well but they won't let me, they keep on at me until I loose it.

Let me perhaps serve you an example on a platter of illustration. This smokin' ban, no problem for me cause I gave up smokin' after the war but the people outside the bars now, what's with them?

I come in wantin' a nice quiet time with myself, no one to ask me questions, no one to point out the obvious. So I sidle on up to the bar, two pints of your best barkeep and a note to your workers, keep off my grass. I tried to spice things up like that, make the request sound exotic so maybe they confuse me with an oriental type or a plumber or something. So there it is, keep off my grass, leave me alone, aka side-step the Badger. But will they listen? Hell no and I'm forced to waste five or six pints on throwin' a safety circle around me, a simple circle to keep others at bay cause I value my private time, I need my own company.

So then when I'm leavin' to go home I have to pass all the smokers outside and I'm like 'Hello smokers' and they're all like 'Hello' back at me. Then I feel the need to continue talkin' to em, maybe strike up a light hearted conversation and the like, to keep the wolf from the door perhaps. But they never finish, they're always there with a ready finger, checkin' out my buttons, droolin' at the prospect.

You know I've forgotten what I was asking here and I'm not sure I've made myself clear but I just wish people would stop pushin' my buttons. Please people, lay off the buttons....they're all I've got.

Sleepy

Look, you're a mobile phone. People are meant to push your buttons. That's why they're there: to be pushed!:D

Stark

yeah, I find having people everywhere you go is a problem too

dictatorcat

Originally posted by k.oriordan
yeah, I find having people everywhere you go is a problem too

Don't worry k! once my invincible army of ants with lasers on their heads is complete there will be no one left to push any buttons muah ha ha!!

Badgers

Originally posted by k.oriordan
yeah, I find having people everywhere you go is a problem too

Tell me about it. Sometimes in bed I wake up and there's a god damn Spaniard in there with me! So I left the door open and some cheese out but that don't give no one the right to jump into bed with me. I'm a private man with private needs and the need to sleep alone is something sacred to me. I am a dangerous man, not many people realise this when they're pushin' my buttons, but it's true.

So I boot out this Spaniard, tell him to keep to himself from now on, and you know what? When I get back to bed my god damn bed has been stolen! Five minutes max I was in the corridor, five minutes in this town is an hour in Alaska and enough time to loose your bed. You've been warned but not warmed and no one is allowed to ask for more.

Kold

I'm a rage-a-holic

i just can't live without RAGE-A-HOL

Deadstar

Originally posted by Badgers
I need my own company.

So then when I'm leavin' to go home I have to pass all the smokers outside and I'm like 'Hello smokers' and they're all like 'Hello' back at me. Then I feel the need to continue talkin' to em, maybe strike up a light hearted conversation and the like, to keep the wolf from the door perhaps. But they never finish, they're always there with a ready finger, checkin' out my buttons, droolin' at the prospect.
Please people, lay off the buttons....they're all I've got.

Two things
(i) you say that you need your own company, then why start a conversation with people you don't know that you want to talk with and then complain that they're talking back... eh?

(ii) Well seeing that your bed was stolen, maybe your buttons really are all you've got.:D

Lafortezza

Badgers is the new dod when it comes to telling stories....