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             Not a lot of things people do in this world bother me, I can normally tolerate anything, or I just don’t let it get to me. The one thing that really does get to me is ignorance. I absolutely hate when people try to make a point about something that they have no clue about. I also hate when people won’t take no for an answer. For example, I have a friend that I met this year from St. Xavier who likes to go out and party a lot, and I used to go with him a good amount. When we would go to a pre-game at a frat, I would join him, and it was pretty fun. When it came time to go downtown on the buses, I would always call it quits and go home. I don’t want to pay ten dollars to get into a bar, and then pay 10 more for 2 drinks; I just can’t afford it. Each time this happened he would not stop pestering me on going. He would insist that I go over and over, tell me all the reasons why I should go. This would go on for 15 minutes, and I just don’t understand why he wouldn’t let up. This was extremely annoying every time. He also sets a good example for my other pet peeve. Today, when we were playing Fifa 11, he told me that Cristiano Ronaldo is the best player of all time. His reasoning was that Ronaldo scored like 51 goals in 50 games, and that is the best stat he had ever seen. I obviously shook my head and told him that he was crazy, but he asked me to show him a better stat. The reason this was so infuriating, was because I have played soccer my entire life, and know everything there is to know about the game. I am almost sure the kid has never seen a live soccer game, or even kicked a ball in his life. There is so much more to being a good soccer player than scoring goals, but since he doesn’t know that, he thinks his claim is perfectly logical. Because he is ignorant of this fact, he argues with me and tells me that I don’t know what I’m talking about. Cristiano Ronaldo is really good, don’t get me wrong, but there are so many other players that he can’t touch. Things like that just drive me crazy.