Wednesday, October 27, 2010

What Really Irritates Me

So to give you some insight to what I am about to tell you; let me explain the situation. In each large classroom there are seats that are in rows that have one opening into a stairway in the center of the room, which lead to the one door other than the fire exit. This is how it tends to fly at my university. Well, now that you can picture what I'm saying, on with the story.

Each day I go into Organic Chemistry and I sit in the same spot. Second row from the front, third seat in, on the right side of the room. Each day I go in, I sit down and I try to keep to myself while I wait for the professor to finally decide it's a good time to start class. Well, each day I have a girl I have deemed "Queen Obnoxious" who will sit there and stare at me.

She says, "Um...um...uummm...ummm........um..."
Until I look at her and say, "What?"

Then she proceeds to ask, "What did you get for [insert test/paper here] question [insert question number here]?"
The fact that every time I tell her, "I didn't do it." doesn't seem to phase her.
I get the same response from her every time, "You really should study more, you're going to fail."
Well no shit, last time I checked I am studying. Perhaps if you had half a brain you'd realize I just don't want to converse with you so I lie and say I didn't do it. 

I just smile and then ignore her proceeding questions until she shuts the hell up and leaves me alone.

Class proceeds as normal and then the teacher lets us out usually one to two minutes late. That would be perfectly fine: If I didn't have a class right after that was all the way across campus. Hm.

To top it off, Queen Obnoxious sits there after class ends and blocks my way out. She sets her backpack right in the middle of the isle and wont move it. So I stand there and wait politely for her to take 500 years to "straighten" her already straight papers, and slowly pack them in her bag. Then she takes 15 minutes to zip up the damn thing because she keeps getting the zipper stuck because she's a moron.

Finally I ask politely, "May I get by? I have class in about three minutes."
She stares at me like I just asked her to kill her mother.

She lets me by then I have to run as quickly as possible to my bike and haul ass across campus, only to be late to my math class and have to sit in the back where I can't hear/see.

Now comes your question: Well, why does she continue to sit in this spot if it's so annoying?

Let me tell you:
There are about 250-300 kids in this lecture hall. There are barely enough seats as it is, and if you don't sit where you have pretty much sat every day, you get a good ass chewing. People tend to like to sit where they feel comfortable, so if you sit in "their seat" they get mad and ask you why you're sitting there. Or they look at you and scoff and "accidentally" kick your bag over while they make their way to another seat.
This causes them to have to sit in "somebody else's" seat, which causes more disruption and annoyances.

I'd rather not be the domino pusher- ya know? So I just sit where I happened to sit the first damn day.

So pretty much I'm stuck there, and I have to deal with Queen Obnoxious every day.

One of these day's I'll put a tack on her seat.