Wow, some of the entries here are bigger BS than the behavior they try to criticize :)

Actually, I disagree with 36. There are a lot of situations where people are in some kind of ambiguous personal trouble that I genuinely don't know how to help with or what they would appreciate me doing, but if they tell me what to do, I can do more for them.

#3) People insisting on specific references in casual conversation kind of ticks me off. It's not like you plan every conversation that you're going to have and walk around with a handy list in your pocket. Even if you can name them, it's not like those people will ever believe you. More often than not, the person making the demand is trying to argue about a basic detail of a subject they know nothing about.

A couple personal examples that comes to mind: Not too long I had a relative demand a reference when I told her that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went to Boston University, she insisted that AOC had gone to Harvard. I don't really know where I learned that piece of information, but I was 100% sure it's true. We ended up betting $20 on who was right, although I've never actually bothered to try and collect. I had another relative recently claim that Donald Trump had never gone to college, refuse to accept it without proof when I said he'd graduated from Wharton (an Ivy League business school), and when I just pulled the info up on my phone she insisted that his degree was a fake that his rich dad bought for him and that he never actually attended...