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Cheer up DUers, People Don't Actually Find You as Annoying as You Think
https://www.sciencealert.com/psychologists-explain-first-impressions-conversations-liking-gap
Give them time.
If you're the sort of person who walks away from a conversation feeling awkward about what you said and whether you left a bad impression, you're far from alone.
The good news is new research shows we're likely to underestimate how much we're liked by relative strangers. So cheer up! It takes time for somebody to really get to know how awful you are.
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[s a toothpaste commercial where this annoying (for the sake of continuity) young lady talks about talking to a person at a party who had really bad breath, who kept moving away ....
then she realized it was HER who had bad breath.
Just a suggestion, but could it be that you bear a strong resemblance to this person?
and that is just how long I will annoy you! 
Sounds like something my daughter would say ...
or maybe something I would say to my daughter
