There are about a million and one valid reasons to reject someone. There are also just as many petty reasons to reject someone.
An r/AskReddit thread asked the question “What’s the pettiest reason you’ve rejected someone?” and, oh boy, was it entertaining.
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Whether you’ve been on the giving or receiving end of one of these rejections, the thread is a must-read.
Too short.
“She seemed very up for it – she asked to meet up, set a time and place. An hour before she says “’shoot forgot to ask, how tall are you?’ When I said 5′ 11 she just said ‘sorry, one inch off’ and that was that!”
Bowling ball problems.
“We went bowling and she started saying the bowling ball was hurting her fingers. She was convinced that there were bugs inside the bowling ball biting her fingers and that was the reason for her pain.”
Too many calls.
“I broke up with my girlfriend in eighth grade because she called me four times a day when we didn’t have cell phones. I got tired of talking on the phone and broke it off.”
Impatience.
“Everytime, and I mean every.damn.time we were in a car, he would say ‘are we there yet?'”
Terrible laugh.
“This is awful but it was her laugh. I never told her obviously because someone’s laugh is a representation of when they are happiest. So shallow as she was pretty awesome.”
Terrible laugh (again).
“She laughed like Butthead”
“You should have laughed like Beavis. You would have made a great couple.”
-u/Reddit_Foxx
Different taste in music.
“Not me, but my friend once rejected a girl for not liking the band TOOL.
And she was such a nice lady too!”
Odd texting habits.
“I once stopped talking to a girl because she kept putting ‘…’ everywhere in texts.”
– u/rahiq
Typos.
“She was texting me to tell me about her standards for men which were pretty high. That’s fine. But I didn’t like all the spelling mistakes she was making.”
Click, click, click…
“Her toenails were so long whenever she was nearby you could hear clicking from the ground as if she was a dog.”
Weird smell.
“She smelled funny. Not bad. It clearly wasn’t a case of not washing or anything like that. She just smelled… Weird. Couldn’t get over it.”
Gross kiss.
“Dude kissed me open mouthed with relaxed lips. Not meant as a make-out kiss that was a quick kiss. Just opened his mouth and smashed his face into mine then pulled back. Ew.”
Gross hug.
“She gave me a hug and a booger that was stuck to her nose got on my shirt and for some reason I never recovered. It’s been ten years and I still havent forgotten.”
Turning the tables.
“I was the one rejected, but the reason I was given was ‘I’ve been rejected a lot, I want to know what it feels like to reject someone.’ “
Sock discrepancies.
“Not me, but a girl I hung out with in high school once dumped a boyfriend because she didn’t like his socks.”
Already saw the movie.
“We had promised to see the same movie together and when I showed up to go see the film they had already seen it.”
Colorblind disagreement.
“Dated a guy who was color blind. He’d argue with me about the color blue-green even if I was the only person in the relationship who could actually SEE blue-green!!”
Bratty cats.
“My perpetually single friend has turned rejecting people into a bit of a sport. I’ll Tinder for her, which is all sorts of amusing. I ended up pulling up his website and showing her some pictures of the guy. We get to about the sixth photo in, of two of his cats, in a treehouse. She explains ‘his cats look bratty.'”
Face problems.
“It wasn’t just about her nose, or the way she spoke.. but something about the combination of the two that I couldn’t get past.”
Fake laughing.
“He fake laughed LOUD quite often. It sounded so fake and was so loud everyone stopped talking..so nope.”
