Annoying People

So there is this guy at my office that really, really irritates me.  He's worse than the other lady that also irritate me.  OK, by now you must think that I'm an irritable person, but I'm really not.  Let me tell you why he irritates the heck outta me.

His office is pretty close to the lunch room.  SO mo matter what time I go to the lunch room, he shows up, and starts to talk.  I do my very best to ignore him, but he doesn't get it.  He simply wants to talk to people, and he won't shut up.  One day, as I was heating up my lunch, he walked in, and began asking me what I thought about the two presidential candidates.  What?  Are you f*cking kidding me?  Don't you know that it's one of the "DON'T"'s in a professional environment?  So I shrugged.  Then he went on to talk about some other political issues about which I don't give a rat's ass.  He didn't seem to care that I barely responded, and went on enjoying the sound of his own voice.

This happens almost on a daily basis, and I always try very hard to control myself, so the fork in my hand doesn't end up being thrown across the table.

I guess he FINALLY got the message that I didn't like the political topics, because after several attempt and got no response from me, he tried a different topic today:  traffic.  I was half way through my lunch, when he walked in.  He said "what's up?" and I responded with "hey."  Then I went back to reading something on my phone.  To most people, it should be pretty obvious that I wasn't trying to have a conversation.  However, he was either to oblivious or just didn't care.  He went on to asking me questions about traffic and rush hour.  I fell for it and replied.  Then in the middle of replying, I realized that I should've just shrugged like before.

Don't get me wrong.  He doesn't do this to me only, so it's not like he's into me or anything like that.  He just wants to talk to people.  I've seen others in the office getting bombarded with his endless questions.  I can't help but to wonder if he has any friends, or if anyone at home to talk to.

Starting tomorrow, I'm going to wear my bright hot-pink headphones with music on while having lunch.  Hopefully he (and the other annoying one) will get the point that I do not want to be bothered with their questions or conversations.

End of rant.  Back to work I go.