“Picking the most expensive item every time my parents took us out to eat.”

I work as a Writer at BuzzFeed, creating and curating quizzes, listicles, and articles that cover everything from pop culture chaos to food trends I immediately want to try and fashion moments I can’t stop talking about.

"Interrupting others while they're still talking is so rude." 

"He'd also ask for every sauce on the menu, even if they cost extra, and mix them all together into a disgusting slop that he never even ate. Then he'd laugh and tell the waitress, "When I was a kid, my parents used to call me Puddles because I loved making a big bowl of sauce!" No, they didn't. Nobody ever called him that. Why even say that?"

"My ex was meeting my family for the first time on Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving. He sat on the couch scrolling through Reddit. Then he came with me to meet my friend for the first time at a barcade. He sat off to the side, scrolling through Reddit while we played DDR. He only came over afterward to ask what the score was. Later, we went to the same barcade with his friends, and suddenly he could play DDR. Insufferable human."

"I brought it up to his elderly parents once, and they said he'd basically done the same thing at their house. Absolute nightmare behavior. Also, every single time I unclogged the toilet, I never saw any toilet paper. That was the beginning of the end."

"Not washing their hands or practicing basic hygiene."

"Chewing with their mouth open. I just couldn’t do it."

"I had to make him Google the definition of "drug" and explain that even the caffeine in coffee is a drug—lots of plants contain drugs. As a pothead, he was deeply offended by that fact, and he stayed mad about it for weeks."

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