Flattery for All the Wrong Reasons

I found a great way of being a heel in daily life is to pull some dumb stunt like declaring someone close to you a team leader in an attempt to gain their favor, but then while declaring yourself to be on their team you proceed to go about doing nothing but things that they don't like.  I did that so much that people began to see right through me.  

They realized (quicker than I thought) that the attempts to over-emphasize their positive traits were only done as an expectation of undeserved gratitude in return.  Even people I liked and respected could tell when my words were genuine and when they were nothing more than empty attempts to pull the wool over their eyes.  And they called me out on it too - saying I was full of it, and laughing at me.  Then I laughed at how easy they could read my mind.

I remember one time I had three people in front of me that I kept saying all kinds of good things about.  Yet every single one of them wasn't buying it.  Man, that takes talent to get THREE people irritated with you all at the same time just for saying good things about them.  Even then I still didn't stop.  It's like I was going out of my way to NOT read the room.

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