I only recently discovered this one actually. One of the easiest ways to tick me off is through the little pet peeve of continuing to argue with me when I'm trying to help, especially if I outrank them.
An example of this is last year, when I was president of my school's Model United Nations club, these kids got into a huge fight in the middle of a committee (a big no no for those who don't do MUN or debate in general) and they were all from my club. Not only was it super embarrassing to hear about from other delegates in my committee who had heard about it from their friends and find out they were from the same school as me, but it also cost us Premier Delegation that year, which is even more embarrassing because usually it's one of those awards that once you've gotten it in the past it's pretty hard to screw up on getting it again. The advisor was royally pissed at the students so I had to talk to them instead, and rather than listen to the warnings I was trying to give them, they continued to argue with me even though they really shouldn't have. Merits and rights and wrongs of the argument aside, I nearly snapped at them because they simply wouldn't listen to me, a person who outranked them both in position and experience.
It's happened a few times since then in a variety of different situations but that's probably the quickest way to get me really angry.






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