Arrogance; You're just not that cool.

So here's a little blurb on an obnoxious little quality called arroagance. It absolutly drives me insane! Is humility valued in todays culture AT ALL?! There is a FINE LINE between confidence and cockyness. The things some people say...I actually happen to be "friends" (sort of) with personified arrogance. Simply because I don't like to use people's real names on these posts, we are going to call him "Kentucky".
So two years ago my small school that resides in the center of a cornfield got some of its funding cut, eliminating most of our advanced placement classes, including advanced placement english. Therefore the only options we had this year for english when scheduling were regular or college prep (which sucks because I actually love English and I sort of wanted to take advanced placement...). So I signed up for college prep English and the cp class had to do summer reading (something the regular english studunts were lucky enough to avoid) and we had to read A Tale of Two Cities (which I freakin' hated). So we are at our first marching band practice of the year and me, Kentucky, and his new girlfriend are all in the drum line so we are standing around talking and he starts complaining about the book and then I started complaining as well and he says "Wait, what book did you have to read?" I told him Tale of Two Cities, same as him. He then comes back and says "well I didn't know that you guys were reading." Wait..."you guys"? Does he think I'm in regular? "I'm in cp too Kentucky." I said annoyed and then he smugly says with this stupid little grin on his face "oh I know, but I'm in ap." And so now I'm totally offended right, cause I'm like wtf what qualified you for that, I didn't think we had ap. Anyway I brush it off then the first day of school rolls around. The bell rings releasing us to third period I walk in the room and there the little prick sits face turning red, now aware that he's been caught in his lie/attempt to make himself look good and I said "Hey, welcome to ap english." and sat down. WHO LIES ABOUT THESE THINGS?!
Then just a few weeks ago all the seniors had to write an essay for the required American Government class about one of the men who signed the Declaration of Independance. So Kentucky comes up next to Kentucky and pushes the delete button erasing the paper. Well Kentuxky saved his work so he doesn't really car he just laughs it off and then when they are signing off, Beiber goes and exits the document and accidentally pushed the save doccument button saving the blank page over Kentucky's finished work. Kentucky was pretty irritated and then at lunch when telling me, Tuschar (my boyfriend) and Little Red (another kid at our lunch table) this story he ends it with "He's just lucky I'm the most brilliant kid in that class and can turn out another good one." Me, Tusch, and Red all kind of look at eachother unsure of how to take that because my boyfriend does have this "I'm awesome" complex, but it's a joke. Kentucky shows no sign of jest in his face or behavior and then just looks up from his 42nd pb&j and says to us "What?" and so Red is like "A little full of yourself there Kentucky?" and he just starts defending how it's true and whatever.
I have never met someone so obnoxious in all my 18 years of life. Who behaves this way?! I can't wait for him to get out in the real world and gets all up in the corprate space (because he intends to go into a sell out job that he has no real interest in instead of following his dreams because the fool thinks material things = happiness and pharmacy pays well) and is forced to start at the bottem. I hope he gets a wake up call and is forced to realize how absoulutly ridiculous he really is...Sorry, just another pet peeve...I can't stand people. It's a wonder I have any friends... :P

Basic Social Rules

Okay people here's the thing, legitimate human interaction should always come before random blurbs of technology. This is how it goes in order of the most human like contact to the least in the ways of socialization in todays digital age:

1. Real face to face conversation and physically being in the same room with another person
2. Skype, where a person is both seen and heard but not actually there
3. A phone call, hard but not seen
4. Texting, swift replys to one another but with no real interaction whatsoever
5. facebook or other social media sites where the person you are trying to comunicate with may or may not even be aware that you are trying to contact them

Now the order of importance should corospond to that. People, when you are spending time with another person, DO NOT take a call unless it is legitimatly important such as from your parents or boss, DO NOT sit there and text the evening away and remove yourself from the perosn or group and DO NOT spend the evening on facebook leaving your friend awkwardly sitting near you.
When Skyping with someone DO NOT text throughout the entire conversation, be on facebook the whole time, or be reading this blog. You are supposed to be skyping them because you WANT to talk to them and see them. If you don't then get off skype. I get it if your text is legitimatly important but usually it isn't. And both facebook, and whatever article you are reading will be there later. If you are reading an article for homework, you probably shouldnt be skyping your friend anyway until you get that done.
If you are on the phone with someone DO NOT partake in activities that are going to distract you from your conversation and make you spacey and unaware of what your friend is ACTUALLY saying and pretend you are listening with occasionsal "mhhm...yeah"s and other stupid impersonal reactions that are entirely fake.
I just wanted to throw that out there because one of my biggest pet peeves has become when people chose to multi task when talking to or spending time with me and/or a small group making me and/or the small group feel less important than whatever random thing you have put as a priorety. Just be courtious people. Use your common sense.