Red Flag Personality Traits in People

Daily writing prompt

What personality trait in people raises a red flag with you?

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There are several and we are not being comical this time. Combinations of any of the following are highly suspect.

1. They drink black coffee.
2. They drink gin and tonic.
3. They like bitter foods such as radishes.
4. They eat strange combinations of foods and often like fast food (like Donald Trump or Warren Buffet)
5. They exhibit a poor sense of smell.
6. They are obsessed with food, money and sex.
7. They have heavy prominent eyebrows.
8. They have a wide face.
9. They have a flat affect.
10. They bully people.
11. They are extroverted and a thinker.
12. They have a tendency to get in your personal space.
13. They are twitchy and/or use their hands a lot when they talk.
14. They are arrogant and narcissistic.
15. They don’t like animals, don’t like pets and if they live where they could have pets, they don’t have any.
16. They often engage in high-risk activities such as base jumping, hang gliding, snowboarding, gambling, fast driving.
17. They have a violent temper.
18. They are a member of a college fraternity.
19. They are extroverted (not introverted) and play sports for a high school or college or professionally.
20. They are an ESTP, ENTP or ENTJ. Sometimes possibly an ESTJ.
21. They are majoring or planning to major in business administration, law, communications, criminology, religion, culinary arts, or planning on becoming a surgeon.
22. They are a CEO, a salesperson, a lawyer, a policeman or policewoman, a surgeon, a chef, a journalist, a postal worker, a politician, a civil servant, a member of the clergy, or they work in the media.
23. They have abnormal speech patterns consisting of unusually high amounts of doubled words, disfluencies, and excessive use of subordinate conjunctions such as because, so that, that, therefore, etc.
24. They primarily listen to rap music and like songs like “No Diggity” by Blackstreet and “Lose Yourself” my Eminem and hate songs like “My Sharonna” by The Knack and “Titanium” by Sia.
25. They have an above average IQ. One example is Simon Cowell and Ted Bundy who both have/ had an IQ of 124.
26. They are pathological liars.
27. They are charming.