what is your favorite way to piss off a control freak?

[datasuspect]

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. Tell the truth.

[datasuspect]

2. but you don't understand

THERE IS ONE RIGHT WAY TO DO THINGS!!!!!!!

[Fire Walk With Me]

5. That's true.

[lizerdbits]

3. I was hoping to get ideas for pissing off my boss

but this is for people you live with. I'll have to borrow from my coworker's playbooks.

[Digit]

22. My boss is very, um, anal and controlling ...

He has his snacks all facing the same way, everything evenly spaced. You get the idea.

So I will turn some of his goodies upside down, mix up his drink flavors, and do whatever I can to "help him out".

[Ava]

4. i swear that people mess with the color coding of my closet on purpose sometimes

is that you? :P

[WritingIsMyReligion]

6. My aunt had a devilish way of foiling an ass at her wedding.

Her brother (my uncle) is a control freak, and he had us all line up on "sides"--family/friends of the bride on the left, family/friends of the groom on the right--of the makeshift aisle, royally pissing off those who were there for both bride AND groom while generally being an ass about it. After about five minutes he'd wrangled us into the "correct" sides of the aisle and the mini-processional began--when my aunt and her groom appeared, my aunt was on the right, the groom on the left. My uncle howled in rage and told her they were "doing it wrong." Very, very amusing. :D

[skater314159]

7. Man... trip down memory lane there..

... my step-mom was an alcoholic, schizo (yes, clinically schizophrenic), control freak... and the problem was you never knew if the impossible standards she wanted to impose on the household would be based in reality.

My fave method for pissage was to always fold the towels and laudry in general in a weird way, as she'd FLIP OUT and start shreiking in front of house-guests that they couldn't see the full design of the towels or the tags because of the way I folded em. :wtf: Also, making sure the little "guest soaps" that weren't meant to be used, were used, also did a lot to help her blow a fuse.

I know - that was prolly wrong of me - but when you're a kid, what the hell else you gonna do to protest, eh?

But the best thing is, sometimes just being a slacker Hippie is the best way to piss one off, which wasn't on the poll.

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. Calmly tell 'em "No" and then don't care when they get pissed off.

Fuck 'em.

[Gormy Cuss]

9. I keep negating his posts about buffets.

:P

[datasuspect]

10. you only anger the gods with your insolence

i can forgive you, they might not.

[khashka]

11. Other

Be even more controlling. Throw a huge fit over anything and everything. Shuts 'em up and they back off.


Personal aside: Damn dude it's good to see you. What was the point of coming back if I couldn't find my partner in crime?


Khash.

[datasuspect]

12. how's it going?

haven't seen you in a long time!

[quakerboy]

13. Stay up past a "civilized" bedtime.

And go to the wrong college.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

14. File their R&B records in the Rock n Roll section!

(from "Diner")

Shrevie: Beth? Beth…
Beth: What?
Shrevie: Come here!
Beth: I’m doing a crossword puzzle.
Shrevie: COME HERE!
Beth: What?
Shrevie: Have you been playing my records?
Beth: Yeah…so?
Shrevie: Didn’t I tell ya the procedure?
Beth: Yeah. You told me all about it, Shrevie. They have to be in alphabetical order.
Shrevie: And what else?
Beth: Uh, they have to be filed alphabetically and according to year as well…right?
Shrevie: And what else?

Shrevie: WHAT ELSE?
Beth: I don’t know!
Shrevie: You don’t know? Well, let me give you a hint, okay? I found my James Brown record filed under the J’s…instead of the B’s. I don’t know who taught you to alphabetize, but to top it off he’s in the Rock n Roll section instead of the R&B section. How could you do that?
Beth: It’s too complicated, Shrevie! See, every time I pull out a record, there’s this whole procedure I have to follow. I just want to hear the music, that’s all.
Shrevie: Too complicated to just KEEP MY RECORDS IN THE CATEGORY, OK? Just put the Rock n Roll in with the Rock n Roll. Put the R&B in with the R&B! I mean, you’re not gonna put Charlie Parker in with the Rock n Roll, would you?

Shrevie: Would you?
Beth: I don’t know. Who’s Charlie Parker?
Shrevie: JAZZ!! JAZZ!!! HE’S…HE WAS THE GREATEST JAZZ SAXAPHONE PLAYER THAT EVER LIVED…

Beth: SHREVIE!! What are you getting so crazy about? It’s just music…it’s not that big a deal.
Shrevie: IT…it is. Don’t you understand? This is important to me!
Beth: Shrevie, why do you yell at me? I never hear you yell at any of your friends!
Shrevie: Look…pick a record, okay?
Beth: What?
Shrevie: Just…pick any record! ANY RECORD!

Shrevie: Okay…what’s the hit side?
Beth: "Good Golly, Miss Molly".
Shrevie: Okay…now ask me what’s on the flip side.
Beth: Why?
Shrevie: JUST…JUST ASK ME WHAT’S on the flip side, okay?
Beth: What is on the flip side?
Shrevie: “Hey, Hey, Hey”, 1958. Specialty Records.

Shrevie: See? You don't ask me things like that, do you? No! You never ask me what's on the flip side.
Beth: No! Because I don't give a *expletive deleted*. Shrevie, who cares about what's on the flip side of a record?
Shrevie: I DO! Every one of my records means something! The label, the producer, the year it was made. Who was copying whose style... who's expanding on that, don't you understand? When I listen to my records…they take me back to certain points in my life, OK? Just don't touch my records, EVER! You! The first time I met you? Modell's sister's high school graduation party, right? 1955. “And Ain't That A Shame” was playing when I walked into the door!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

15. confide in them how totally boring they are and then leave their ass.

[trof]

16. Oh. Am I a 'control freak'? Tops on jars:

This is my biggest pet peeve.
Miz t. is physically and (I guess) psychologically UNABLE to put a screw top back on a bottle or jar.
It's just completely beyond her capabilities.
It's either cross-threaded, or just 'sitting' on top of the container.
We have discussed this.
She is totally unaware that she's doing this.
"I PUT the top back on."
"Yes but you put it on cattywampus. Look, it's not HARD to put the top back on the peanut butter jar. Straight and tight. Really, it isn't."
"I thought I did."
"No, you didn't."
"Well, I thought I did."

:grr:

[BuelahWitch]

17. Waste food at the buffet

:evilgrin:

[Rosemary2205]

18. put the TP on the wrong way.

they'll have a complete meltdown.

[hisownpetard]

19. When I found out my ex was cheating on me, I'd wait till I heard his car in the driveway

and then I'd run and put the toilet seat UP and put on a pair of high heels.

He'd say, "Who was here today?"
I'd say, "No one. Why?"

[Tuesday Afternoon]

20. bwahahahaha

:thumbsup:

[hisownpetard]

21. Yeah. Drove him nutz!!

:hi:

[Drum]

25. lol!

:D

[BlueJazz]

23. Anybody remember Edith's Tupperware Party. ?? (All in the Family)

The Represenitive came to the party, saw how Edith had laid out the Tupperware and said:
"Oh Everything looks nice...except the Bowls don't go there...(Big Scowl and frown on her face).. DO THEY !!

[unapatriciated]

24. Other - Divorce is the ultimate piss off for a control freak.

[RainDog]

26. man, you are sick... and not in a good way. :) n/t