-Believe that there's no possible way that they could have made a mistake. Someone or something else is always definitely responsible. The app or program malfunctioned; the bank randomly changed their PIN on them; the car shifted gears all by itself; etc etc.
-Generalize their experience to everyone else, or think that theirs is the Ur Experience, the truest and most pure and real.
-Somewhat related to the last one: people who want only to constantly gaze into the mirror of their own life, self, and experiences. They don't want to see or read about people who aren't like them and are experiencing things differently from them. Best example I can think of: when my kid was in kindergarten, he was sent home with a book that was autobiographical in nature. The author described how much he hated reading, how all these stories about people who weren't him were so boring...and then he realized he could write his own books that were all about him. The self-absorption of it was appalling, and completely at odds with what fiction is supposed to be about.
Re: Annoying things people do
-Generalize their experience to everyone else, or think that theirs is the Ur Experience, the truest and most pure and real.
-Somewhat related to the last one: people who want only to constantly gaze into the mirror of their own life, self, and experiences. They don't want to see or read about people who aren't like them and are experiencing things differently from them. Best example I can think of: when my kid was in kindergarten, he was sent home with a book that was autobiographical in nature. The author described how much he hated reading, how all these stories about people who weren't him were so boring...and then he realized he could write his own books that were all about him. The self-absorption of it was appalling, and completely at odds with what fiction is supposed to be about.