Stop Annoying Me!!!

This summer is proving to be a test of my patience. No, it's not my job, it is someone at my job. Since I have left Utah one thing I have come to appreciate is the sound of silence or a quiet atmosphere with music playing at a soft tone as I work in my office/hotel room. Never in my life have I known anyone who watches or is addicted to television more than this person. From waking moment to when he goes to bed and when he is not working or eating out somewhere, this kid is watching tv or playing video games. Now now, I know that not to long ago I was doing the same thing but that was because of my job when I was a video store clerk. I am still an avid lover of film but I have gained a greater appreciation for silence and nature as I have been working.

At first it was 4 of us crammed into this two person hotel room and we would alternate who got the beds every night. One guy preferred sleeping on the floor so that was one less night that the rest of us had to wait till we got to sleep on a bed again.

However without fail this guy would watch tv till the wee hours of the morning and it was not just his tv and video game addiction that makes him annoying. He asks and says the dumbest things. A prime example of these two accusations took place on Sunday and Tuesday night. Sunday night we were all chilling at my brothers hotel room playing Texas Hold 'em . One one of the guys in our room decided to call it quits after a few hands, returns to our room, and turns in for the night. A few hours later when we were done with the poker game we are all walking back to my hotel room, the room where myself and 3 other guys are staying in. Before I continue let me just say that this hotel that we are staying in is one, not the Plaza Hotel in fact its more like the Bates motel except the owners are not murdering psychopaths. There are however drug dealers, pimp, prostitutes, and drunken winos living at this hotel as well.

Back to the story, the time was about 2am when we got back to our room. My brother, James, Joe, Felipe, annoying guy, and I arrive at my room and we find out that my key does not work so I ask annoying roommate if he has his key and as I figured because this guy is very forgetful as well, he left it in the room. What he does next is the dumbest thing ever. He pounds on the door as hard as he can and shouts, "Open up, Police!" The rest of us are like, "Dude what the hell are you stupid or something?!" Once again I was not surprised at his response, "What? What did I do?"

Example number two is not as long. We went to CiCi's pizza and were watching the Lakers/Mavericks game we are all watching including annoying guy and he out of nowhere asks, "Oh is this the Lakers/Mavericks game?" I responded, "Really?" "Seriously?" "All of us including you have been watching this game and eating pizza for the last 45 minutes."

As of now the other two guys who were sharing the room with us have gone home. One had a family emergency and will be returning in a few weeks and the other could not stand how the real world is outside the Utah Bubble and quit. For now it is just annoying guy and me.

Tonight the guys including annoying guy and I were watching an episode of South Park online but after several network disconnections I gave up on watching and came back to my hotel room to do some work on some writing on a horror novel I have been working on. I decided to run down to the local 7-11 for some Gatorade. When I got back and was just starting to have ideas flow into my brain, there is the knock of annoying guy which, always is an annoying off beat drum beat on the door. "Damit! Already?" I grumble to myself as I open the door. He then walks in and plops himself in front of the TV, turns it on, and starts watching Jerry Springer. Then he turns to me while I was just starting this blog and says, "Hey do a search on the internet and see if the Jerry Springer Show is fake." I relpy, "No! I told you yesterday that the show was fake remember?" He gives this dumb laugh and says, "Oh yeah you did huh." then returns to the Springer show.

I cannot wait till we move into a house where I can once again lock unwanted visitors out of my office/room and have limited contact with annoying guy.