Once, this troper was at a friends house with four other friends for a sleep over, and she scraped her heel. It didn't hurt, so she thought nothing of it. A few minutes later, one of her friends informed her that her heel was bleeding everywhere, and sure enough their was blood all over her legs, on the floor, and on one of her friend's pillowcases. This troper responded with a mildly surprised "oh" and then began apologizing for getting blood on the floor and the pillowcase. Luckily, the friend with the bloodied pillowcase had an identical and clean one at home, which relieved this troper a bit. While she was in the bathroom cleaning herself off, one of the friends got a paper towel to clean the blood and this troper apologized again. This troper apologized several other times that night. She actually felt the need to apologize for ''bleeding''!

I'M SORRY! I'm sorry! I'm sorry I apoligize so much!!

This troper apologized in nearly every sentence for most of her life. Finally in college, one of her friends had enough and decided that every time she apologized (without good reason) she was going to get her face licked. This troper has mild OCD. After being licked two or three times, she ceased most of her apologizing!

This troper knew a kid who could be considered a subversion. He apologized for the most inoffensive things like thinking dogs were better than cats or that Starbucks coffee didn't taste good. However, he never apologized for the things that were truly offensive such as: trying to start a discussion on masturbation during philosophy class, calling a girl he didn't know a cunt faced whore, and claiming that Bob Marley would commit a genocide to score ten grams of pot.

This Troper, full stop, including the apologising for apologising, completely unintentionally. She is told that it is incredibly annoying, but she hasn't been able to squash the VerbalTic ...

I don't ''remember'' writing this...

You should be sorry.

Sorry...

Stop apologizing!

Sorry!

Likewise, this troper says sorry all the time. People don't tend to get so much annoyed as slightly exasperated. I even apologise if someone else pushes into me, just by instinct. It's unfortunate, since it tends to give the impression of being something of a pushover.

This troper apologizes too much but makes it retroactively acceptable. After a girl calls me out on apologizing I apologize and then she rolls her eyes. I then say fuck you and ask if the previous apology can apply to the cussing. Usually the agree and are happy that I didn't apologize again.

I'm this way too, and even my father who encouraged me to be respectful of others told me off for being "too damn polite!". I constantly try to consider other people's feelings and their impressions of me that I end up doing absolutely nothing in fear of mockery, High School certainly didn't help in that regard.

Are you me? Seriously, if this troper isn't being an ExtremeDoormat, she's being this, and her dad telling her off for apologizing, thus prompting ''another'' reflexive apology, does not help.

This Troper falls into the "Too damn polite" trap a lot too, often apologising for getting in the way, or being the one to move out of the way, despite being barely able to walk. Yes, I apologise for walking slowly too.

This Troper also apologises for when people bump into her and apologises like crazy when she accidentally does. She also apologises when a friend of hers has done anything wrong, often asking herself where she went wrong. She's told that she's amusing but slightly exasperating.

This troper frequently said 'sorry' during the sixth grade, to the point where it was practically my catchphrase. I think it was because I was at a new school and was seriously nervous and didn't want to offend anybody.

This Troper is an inversion most of the time. Due to the black clothing, chains, trenchcoat, heavy boots, and habit of stalking places rather than walking, people expect a certain attitude. As such, people in the way get glared and growled at rather than apologised to. This troper is aware of the stereotype, but hates people being in the way and refuses to apologise for something not his fault, such as someone standing in the way. (When cycling, people are more likely to get a stream of shouted profanity rather than a glare; accelerating takes energy AND shortens the life of the gearing.)

So is this one. He'll throw death glares to anyone and anything he ever bumps into, unless he knows it's his fault. An unintentionally scary frown helps, too. He'll still get this tic back as soon as he considers wasting a helper's time.

When my mother calls me on apologizing too much, I apologize.

Because I can't stand to have people angry at me, I have spent most of my life apologizing to defuse situations of potential conflict. Now it's automatic and, ironically, very irritating to those around me. And yes, I too apologize for apologizing. And apologize for apologizing for apologizing...

This troper has picked up a lot of Japanese culture while learning the language, doing karate, etc..., so he apologizes a lot more than the average Hungarian.

This troper attended a Japanese language school, and was told she apologized too much by the native Japanese teachers.

@/JChance raises his hand. Sorry...

This troper tends to apologize for anything she was remotely involved in. She also says "thanks" and "excuse me" more than she should.

Sorry, but This Troper apologizes for anything, everything, and nothing. And then she apologizes for apologizing, too. Sorry again...

This troper has a friend who does this. It's simultaneously cute and annoying when he apologizes for apologizing too much. D'aww HEY STOP IT.

Unfortunately, this troper has adopted this as a verbal tic. The fact that people are constantly annoyed by it only makes her want to apologize ''even more''. She theorizes that it's because of wanting to be a sweet and happy little girl who was liked by everyone when she was younger.

This troper went through a pretty rough time two years ago, and the resulting self-esteem crash resulted in this. She still hasn't quite gotten over it.

Someone this troper knows interrupted a class to apologize for having interrupted the class before (when he hadn't interrupted it before, he had just gone to get something for the teacher)

This troper has an apologizing problem, specifically when visiting the homes of others, as a result of a friend's mother telling her she wasn't wanted there. When at someone's home, she often apologizes for things such as asking for a glass of water, burdening others with her presence, and breathing.

Are you my twin by any chance? This troper has done all of the above a ridiculous amount of times, though I do it mostly by being raised to be as unobtrusive as possible while being a guest. It drives my friends parents' insane.

This troper's number one verbal tic, by far. The fact that it bothers people only makes it worse-- the ideal response to someone who's constantly apologising for behaviour they can't help but think you are offended by is ''definitely'' not "Quit doing that!" (Is it that hard to guess what my response will be to that?)

This Troper, for no real reason (other than bad self-esteem).

This Troper... oh, I'm so sorry for wasting your time.

This Troper usually apologizes about the same amount as people around her. However, some people get this idea of her, because if she doesn't know the person very well (see: first impression), she tends to apologize in the same cases she normally would, plus a few more, with "Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry!" etc.

This troper has had her (female-CuteShotaroBoy) girlfriend ''yell'' at her over this. (What was yelled? "QUIT ACTING LIKE YULIE, DAMN IT!") She's got a FreudianExcuse, but is ''trying'' to get past the apologizing thing, really! ...and if it weren't for the third-person speech pattern this wiki provokes, there'd be an apology for that taking too long right here.

This Troper, too. So much, she once said "sorry" to a ''column''. Her friends will never let her live that down, she is sure. She has also apologized to dogs more than once after bumping into them. Profusely so.

This troper says sorry, mostly to things she cannot control.

This troper says sorry a lot, even if it isn't actualy his fault or there's nothign to be sorry about. His boyfriend is the same way. So, when they think that they have done anything to make the other feel bad, it's usually followed by saying "I'm sorry" to each other ad nauseam.

This troper apologizes to ''inanimate objects''. And well, everyone and everything else. She's Canadian. This might explain some of it.

I think we might be twins.

I think you were seperated from me at birth.

I know other Canadians. That's ''not'' it.

This troper apologizes for getting an answer that sounds like the person is stressed out by being asked a question. Happened a lot when we moved to Arizona.

This troper's default response to her mother saying "can you come here for a second" or something similar is "oh god, what did I do?"

This troper's fiance apologizes for everything, whether it's in his control or not. He'll say sorry for anything from "Ow, that was my foot" to "It's cold out today." I used to blame his being Japanese, but I think now it's just him.

Sorry for wasting anyone's time here, but this troper falls into this trap a lot.

I happen to find this trait very annoying in others, but I do it all the time. I often apologize when called out on apologizing too much, which has led to much hand-wringing within my family.

This Troper's roommates have had to repeatedly tell him to stop apologizing. He once apologized for knocking on the door. He apologizes for apologizing too many times. Once, he said "sorry" and "excuse me" to a mop that he tripped over at work.

This troper refuses to apologise for being overly apologetic. Hey, got to start somewhere ...

This Troper is much like the first one, apologetic to the point where it is a VerbalTic. Might be an inferiority complex thing.

This troper had her friend tell her that she had to stop saying sorry all together. Why? "Because it makes me want to break down and cry, then just wrap you up in a hug and take you home!"

This troper normally doesn't necessaily apologise more than most people, but he does apologise for doing things most people probably wouldn't apologise about, like whenever he sits next to somebody. He plays this completely straight when around a person he's attracted to, tho (usually with unnecessarily dramatic apologies too, along the lines of "I beg for you'r forgiveness").

This troper is quite guilty of this, especially when playing volleyball (usually somewhat ineptly).

This troper is guilty of apologizing too much, as well. Even in her writing, characters tend to apologize a lot, which she will make jokes about.

This Troper went nuts apologizing at the supermarket a few weeks back when she realized she didn't have enough money and needed to put several things back, even though the cashier was totally cool about it.

This Troper. ''Full'' '''fucking''' '''''stop'''''.

I'm sorry for cursing.

This one once told a friend that she shouldn't apologize for things that weren't her fault. Her response was to immediately apologize.

Same here, and then when told to stop she just apologizes again.

This troper has been told that she apologizes too much. Her response to the people who tell this? "I'm sorry". One time ''she apologized after apologizing for apologizing too much''. But she's ''really'' sorry for apologizing too much...

This troper traces her constant apologizing to a year working an extremely low-grade, servile customer service job. Since said job also kept her hands full, limiting the range of polite non-verbal gestures, she also developed a habit of ''bowing'' a lot — which her acquaintances find even more annoying.

A couple years ago, I was told my someone that I'm kinda rude. I didn't think I was that rude, but I have the idea that invoked all the apoligizing that I do, even for things that aren't my fault in the least. It's become a habit now.

This Troper apologizes for almost everything in either English or Spanish (Depending on whatever comes out of her mouth first). She also apologizes to inanimate objects and animals as well.

You should see this troper move through a crowd. He's an expert at people-dodging and can move through a thick crowd at jogging speed without hitting anyone, but always makes an effort to apologize to everyone he blows past. This often leads to him going "Sorryexcusemepardonmecomingthroughsorrysorrywhoopssorry" as he bobs and weaves.

This troper apologizes for and to ''everything''. I always apologize for things that I had absolutely nothing to do with, for apologizing a lot, and I've apologized to walls multiple times. When I do something that really causes someone trouble, you can expect to hear "Oh my gosh I'm sorry are you okay I'm really, really, really sorry! I'm so sorry can I help I'm sorry..."

This troper tends to apologise to anyone and anything - that means a lot of "sorry" to chairs, doors, etc. Fortunately, she tends to mumble quite a bit as well, so people don't necessarily hear it unless it's more than a reflex and she actually means it. Not sure about the objects.

This Troper knew someone who would apologise when he opened a door for anyone.

This troper. To the point where you'd think it was a mental condition. Her mother has actually gotten ''angry'' about her profuse apologies before. Which, y'know, just causes another one. ;_;

Awwwwwww, that's so sad T_T!

One year, this troper was walking through the hallway at [=GenCon=] with a friend, when I bumped into someone in full Darth Vader costume. I and the person I bumped into both automatically apologized, and went on our way. A few seconds later, I realized what had just happened. I turned to my friend and said, "Wait a minute... did ''Darth Vader'' just ''apologize to me?''" Cue much laughter, including from the guy in Vader costume.

Said friend made reference to this incident later on, when he told me "Well, I'm not going to argue with someone Darth Vader apologized to."

This Troper, at least in RL. OTOH I get annoyed when people apologise for things they are not sorry for (ie. things they have done before and fully intend to do again). If your not sorry don't apologise, if you are try to avoid doing it again. Otherwise people won't believe you when you *are* sincere.

This troper. After it was pointed out to him in middle school, and some people becoming more annoying, he becomes less of this, but it never goes away.

This one's mother, especially when answering those annoying phone calls no-one wants: #QUOTE#'''Val:''' "I'm sorry we don't need anything, sorry, sorry bye, sorry *finally puts the phone down* ." Okay maybe that was exaggerated but still... good ol' British good manners...

This troper falls into this, to the point where he once apoligized to '''video game'''. It made more sense in context.... This troper has also fallen into the saying sorry to saying sorry to much error.

This troper would like to apologise for apologising so often...Crap.

This troper automatically apologizes for many things, including when ''other'' people run into him, or begging pardon when others in his group don't say something along the lines of "excuse me" walking through a crowd. If he says "I'm not apologizing" (though he'll sometimes apologize for ''that'' if he thinks it may have been to harsh), the person to whom he says it is in ''deep'' (unfortunately, his mother tends to force a subversion, since she used to tell him off for apologizing rudely, and now interrupts before he can even try).

This troper. To the point where it's become a joke in her family, particularly one incident: #QUOTE#'''Troper:''' And then the dude was like-- #QUOTE#''-falls backwards into a potted plant-'' #QUOTE#'''Troper:''' I'm sorry! I'm sorry! Sorry! Sorry! #QUOTE#''-tries to get back up, ends up falling into a trashcan not that far away-'' #QUOTE#'''Troper:''' I'm sorry! Sorry, sorry! #QUOTE#'''Troper's mom:''' ... you don't need to apologize to a potted plant or a trashcan. #QUOTE#'''Troper:''' Oh, sorry!

This Troper is really bad with this, to the point where it's a VerbalTic, apoligizes for stuff that wasn't even his fault or when he makes a joke, no matter how inoffensive it is, and even apoligizes to his stuffed animals for stepping on them. My parents get rather annoyed by it, and me and my friends call it Wilt Syndrome

This troper is in a roleplay where there's a bit of a RunningGag with this... #QUOTE#'''Troper's Character:''' Sorry... #QUOTE#'''Other Person's Character:''' Stop saying sorry! #QUOTE#'''Troper's Character:''' So-oh, never mind.

I'm sorry I added to this list, cause, I mean, it's getting pretty long already. Sorry!

Sorry, but once thus troper starts apolagising he's sorry to say he can't stop saying sorry. Sorry.

This troper says sorry alot. Weither it's my fault or not. - @/{{Psyga315}}

@/{{J-H}} apologises to her mom and step-dad alot that she was told by her mom to just stop saying it all the time.

Sorry, I know you probably don't want to read how this Troper has a wicked inferiority complex. Not only does she apologize for doing things like bumping into chairs, taking to long in a lunch line because food needed to be refilled, and getting bumped into by other people, but also refuses to let other people say sorry to her because, obviously, it's her fault. At summer camp, they tried to get her to say watermelon instead of sorry. It didn't work.

This troper, who tries to be unobtrusive and not a burden on anyone, which results in her apologizing profusely for things that weren't problematic to anyone in the first place. Sorry for cluttering up the page.

This Troper is of the "apologizes to people who bump into me" variety. Not that he doesn't apologize for bumping into people himself. It got fairly ridiculous, though, when he apologized to a girl he liked for liking her...multiple times. Recently, he signed up for the Texas Latin Dance club at college, only to find out he's not so good at keeping rhythm while dancing with a partner. You can guess what happens from there...

And for my {{Troll}} moment (I apologize in advance): I'd just like to point out I wasted a lot of time reading over these after I got sucked in...

This troper used to apologise so much that it started to annoy her friends. Luckily she got better, apparently at around the time she split up with her ex-bf, strange that.

I'm sorry, but I've got to admit I say sorry ''a lot''. Sorry about that.

This troper, to the point where family, friends, even people she's ''just met'' have told her to stop it. Sorry, I'm honestly trying to cut it out! (aw, damnit...)

This Troper's brother does this a lot, and doesnt just stop at one apology, he goes "sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry"

This Troper has this issue due to her low self esteem. She apologised for being ripped-off by the pizza guy, having an asthma attack and making her dad take her back to the condo from snowborading. Hell, she even said she was sorry because she got a B in a math class (not her strong subject). The only person who seems to be upset with these types of things is this troper.

This is this troper's VerbalTic. Her friends have all noticed it, and find it either funny or annoying. And of course she'll just apologize again for...apologizing too much. She says 'sorry' when people bump into her. Cue Canadian jokes. Her New Years Resolution was to stop apologizing unnecessarily. She failed to fulfill it. Sorry.

This troper's father is narcissist and alcoholic and his mother is a very dominant person, especially towards the only person she was able to control - this troper. Their constant fighting combined with other unpleasant childhood exoeriences made this troper like this. Hopefully becoming a subversion, though, with help from his significant other - unnecessary apologising just makes her angry, and she is doing her best to get this troper to stand up for himself. Without apologising directly afterwards (which his mother always made him do).

This Troper apologizes to nearly everyone all the time, particularly as a result of the Get-In-People's-Way-While-Trying-To-Get-Out-Of-Their-Way Tango, compounded by a general lack of self-confidence and self-esteem. Her unrequited love interest gets terribly frustrated with her for it, which just makes her apologize more. Also: overuse of "thank you" and "yes, ma'am."

I apologize way too much, which annoys my grandmother to no end. Especially when it's for something that isn't my fault. Heck, I've apologized for catching a cold before. Sorry about that. And sorry about repeating that joke. I know half the people on this page used it too. Sorry.

Last night, I dreamed I was a FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire gone wrong. I sucked some people's blood and apologized for it afterward and told them to go get that looked at. I told some of my friends about it and one of them said that it seemed like something I'd do were I a vampire.

This troper, quite a bit for swearing as I try not to swear but I do so to express my disdain for certain things and "celebrities". Yet, it might not be quite swearing but saying I want to do bad things like shoot someone repeatedly in regards to what I think of the guy in the GoCompare adverts.

This Troper always say sorry in RealLife. She makes it up by forgiving a lot.

This Troper.....sorry for intruding.

This troper apologizes a '''LOT.''' I go beyond apologizing for apologizing, I apologize for ''things that I have no control over.'' Like, say my mom's client didn't show up, I'd say sorry, even though I didn't do anything and have no control over it! And I'm sorry for being repetitive!

This glasses-clad, painfully shy lurker does this waaay too much. She even apologized to a bully when the girl tried to ''stab her with a pencil''. It got so bad that one of my friends bops me on the head with a rolled up paper and says "Stop saying sorry!"

This troper programmed a keystroke macro for "No need to apologize" to respond to his girlfriend's favorite verbal IM tic.

This troper has the tendency to apologize to absolutely everyone (including her own computer for pushing it too hard when it occassionally crashes, and people far away on the internet who blame me for losing a game, pulling down the team and generally sucking too hard -- actually, no, that's actually what she says to ''herself'', and everyone in general -- oddly enough this is because she thinks other people are of more value than herself, and she wants them to not be offended over anything, not because she's concerned with how she's viewed by them, then she'd have become a StepfordSmiler a long time back, or at least, that's what she thinks about herself, she could be wrong, wow this paranthesis is long, sorry)...which gets grating when the scene behind her eyes shows her stabbing their eyes out with a pencil. She had this mental image before TheDarkKnight, and still hasn't seen it. ItGotBetter, though -- now she regularly just ignores the people who really don't act like they deserve apology. Which, because bottling up emotion is more difficult than simply saying "sorry" and meaning "fuck you", is even ''more'' difficult for her...

This troper has apologized to multiple trees over the past year, before realising what he was doing and mentally kicking himself. Only to do the same thing again later.

A friend of mine has sorry as a verbal tic.here's and example

"yeah penguins are awesome, sorry." and "hey happy birthday! sorry, here's your present."

I once apologized to someone after they commented that it was a bit cold outside. Yeah. I apologise for everything. Sorry is my default response to anything. "How are you today?" "Sorry."

This troper tends to do this a lot while role playing online. Mainly because she feels guilty for being slow to reply and has low self-confidence when it comes to her writing skills and ability to portray a character IC. Sometimes I worry that this habit will make people think I'm one of those people who fishes for compliments, but I can't really help it sometimes.

This Troper was accused by her mother of self-hate because she apologizes so much. I'm really trying to be polite...

Instead of saying "excuse me", this Troper often says "I'm sorry". And "forgive me" features frequently even in my casual speech.

I am ''so'' very much the epitome of "{{Apologises A Lot}}"! I'll apologize for delivering too many apologies. My mom even used to say that my two favorite words in the English language were "I'm sorry" and that I could kill someone with kindness (this was before I became a little more bitter and cynical). I theorize it's because of my phenomenally low self-esteem combined with a compulsion to be polite. Oh, and get this -- I'll even apologize for burping, ''even if I burped so quietly no one else around me has heard it''.

This fits This Troper quite well. I'm excessively polite to people I don't know very well... and with people I do know I often go off into random tangents and think that I'm rambling/not making sense and the other person is getting bored or angry at me, so I abruptly cut off what I'm saying and say sorry. I also get the whole; "STOP APOLOGIZING!!!" "Sorry..." thing a lot. Sorry if that didn't make sense...

Seeing as I am basically Codex in real life, I do this a ridiculous amount and take responsibility for everything and also say "I'm sorry" when people tell me about their troubles and people tell me to stop but I don't even mean to do it! It's not good.

This troper has a ShrinkingViolet friend that apologizes for everything even if she didn't do anything wrong. She knows her friend is shy and unsure of herself but gave her a gentle DareToBeBadass speech to boost her confidence and is happy to report little improvements.

This troper is, while not necessarily shy, extremely worried about offending or inconveniencing people, and thus will apologize excessively. In an episode that she now laughs at, a friend told her that she apologized too much. Her response? "Sorry, it's just that I... Sorry, I didn't mean to annoy you. Sorry."

This troper gets in trouble with this. Sorry.

This troper has been slapped (not hard, just to get the point across) by my friend for this. She sees it as part of an inferiority complex my grandmother gave me, and she just wants me to get over it. I am, of course, sorry-* slap* -she's had to put so much effort into helping me.

I apologize a lot, as I don't have that great self esteem. Sorry you had to hear that.

This troper, by virtue of only knowing about two sentences in Chinese while spending a month in Beijing, developed the habit of cumpulsively saying "Dibuqi (I'm sorry)" for ''absolutely everything''. She was informed later that most of the locals probably wouldn't have cared if she actually ''had'' done something worth apologizing over, like stepping on someone's foot.

This troper's younger brother, in addition to being a nervous nelly, apologizes more than necessary. This combination leads to irritating situation where he thinks that someone is mad at him for something he just did and apologizes; when you tell him he didn't do anything wrong and he doesn't need to say sorry, he apologizes for that, too.

Me. My best friend often tells me not to apoligize so much. My reply? "Sorry." And no, that is not the only example.

This troper has this exact problem. She leads into everything by saying "Sorry to bother you, but..." and apologizes for even the smallest of mistakes. She even apologizes without doing anything wrong. She has actually has had teachers make it a rule that she was not allowed to apologize.

But what happens if you accidentally blow up a science lab? Can you apolgise for that? Sorry, couldn't resist...

This troper says 'sorry' all the time. She constantly mutters sorry when she has to weave through the crowded hallways of her school, terrified of making someone angry at her.

I once made a friend due to a war of apologizing. I then apologized again.

I do this when in the company of my ex-girlfriend due to the constant fear that being annoying. Justified in that she remains the one person I trust utterly and I cannot afford to lose her. That and she has such a beautiful smile, so I want her to be happy. Sorry for babbling.

Combination of being able to make more noise than a bull in a china shop when leaving my seat due to having a schoolbag that is a heavy rucksack (I wish I was kidding about that), determination not to inconvenience people and telling bad jokes requently has resulted in the at-least-once-ever-three-hours apology at school. It got so bad that I was once told to stop apologising by my step-mother. I didn't go for the obvious joke (ie saying "Sorry" after being told to stop apologising).

This troper does this. She and her friend had a conversatin once that somehow rolled into "I'm sorry!" "stop apologizing!" "I'M SORRY" over and over again, until he put a hand over my mouth and said "It's alright, just ''stop apologizing'' okay?"

This troper does this so much, that occasionally, she'll apologize to inanimate objects she bumps into!

I apologize for apologizing too much. When this happens, I then proceed to bang my head on the wall to make myself stop. I also apologize when people step on my feet. Goddammit...

This troper apologizes profusely to everyone and everything, including my pets, plants, inanimate objects, etc. He even apologizes for apologizing! This has been {{Lampshaded}} like no tomorrow by family and friends.

This troper's "little sister" *rubs eyes* ''So'' much. She will apologise for walking on you at a door way. She will apologise if she forgets where the glasses are at your house. She will apologise when she's crying her eyes out in the middle of a panic attack for "being a bother". She will apologise if you hurt her feelings. She will apologise if you tell her to stop apologising for no reason. And the reason to all this is her Bastard Dad who never allowed her to feel good enough. And she's fully aware of this yet cannot stop it. (Needless to say I have this guy marked for a kill.)

Due to being a klutz MadeOfIron, I often apologize for falling over. I can heal. Things that break when I fall on them can't.

I know this is going to sound a bit wangsty but I feel it needs to be said. This troper apologizes a lot, but maybe it's because I have this flawed logic that if I apologize to other people, they'd forgive me and apologize to me too. To date, I can only count ''five'' people who have ever actually told me that they were sorry without having been forced to. Most people have little to no empathy, period. From my experiences? Most people have to be ''told'' to apologize because they don't realize how much they offended or hurt people. The only way to get my sister to say she was sorry for being an utter bitch to me (if they weren't siding with her against me) was for mom and dad to say "Apologize to him ''right now'' or you can kiss your allowance/TV/Car/Music/Books/Computer goodbye!". The only way to get people to apologize to other people in school was for the teacher to hold them after class or put them in detention and say "Now write an apology letter." One of the best teachers who did this was actually a bit of a SadistTeacher but was actually a rare ''positive'' example. Normally he was nice but he held several kids in detention to have them write apology letters to someone who they called a fag, and reduced one of the bullies to tears because he made them rewrite the letter a good ''six times'' because he said "You have to mean it. I can tell you're just Bullshitting this to get out of detention sooner" and proceeded to use his sadism to make the kids ''mean'' it. One of my friends was even ranting about how people just "Callously" said they were sorry and tried to fix it and didn't meant it (When they actually ''did'') and my response was a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech on how ''JEALOUS'' I was of him, because I can count on ''one hand'' how many people have said they were sorry to me ''PERIOD'', especially since the people who ''were'' apologizing to him did it because ''they fucking meant it''. Sorry this is getting a bit long.

Sorry but this troper says "sorry" all the time when bumping into people, sorry, speaking foreign languages accidentally, dropping something, accidentally touching people in any way at all, sorry, and when he says it too much. Sorry, but strangely this troper never even means it, sorry, but it seems that it's the first English thing that pops into his head at certain times, he apologises. Sorry, he sincerely apologises. This troper's extremely sorry for sounding like a Canadian, speaking French, and being weird, sorry!!!

During lunchtime one day at the school cafeteria,I was sitting next to a friend of mine when I happened to apologize for something, then apologize again, then she told me to stop apologizing. I apologized for apologizing. I then dragged it out into a joke until she got irritated at me. Then I felt I REALLY did need to apologizing, so I did. And eventually I just shut up.

This troper apologises so much that he has, many times, aplogised on behalf of someone else...and usually for ridiculous reasons ("We're both guys"; "We're both wearing green today"; "We have the same orthodontist").

I'm pretty polite, and will apologize when I screw up. And for some reason, I have this one class I happen to screw up in much more than any other class. Once, when working in a group, I kept saying "sorry" whenever I perceived that I was being a hinderance, leading to this conversation. #QUOTE#'''Me'''(screwing up):"Sorry..." #QUOTE#'''A''':"Look, stop saying 'sorry' to everything!" #QUOTE#'''Me''':"...sorry..."

This Troper apologises a lot to strangers int he street, last week I apologised to the person behind me for leaving a one-hour queue. With friends I'm not like that but in class I will apologise a lot before giving a very neutral, and polite point of view, working in group I feel the need to apologise profusely before pointing any grammatical error in our final work.

Me. Good ''god''. Having a guilt complex is a ''bitch''.

This troper in spades. Practically every other word out of my mouth is "sorry", "I'm sorry", "I apologize", "Sorry to inconvenience you", etc., etc., etc.

I'm sorry to add to this already quite huge list of over-apologetic people, but I thought I should add myself to this list...wait, I didn't have to apologize for that? Sorry... Ack, I'm sorry for apologizing too! Oh boy, this will probably go on forever...

I always say sorry so much that my friend tell me to stop apologizing so much that i apologize for saying sorry so much. And every time i do something wrong i apologize out loud even if I'm alone in a room.

This trooper has a fear of upsetting people so when thinks she did she say's sorry a lot.

This troper. So much. Between being a general Shrinking Violet and a ridiculous inferiority complex, this troper wouldn't be surprised if she apologized for wasting everyone's air.

This troper, pretty much any time I get in someone's way, even if that was because there was also someone in my way.

This troper had no idea that this occurred for other people as well. Especially the saying sorry for saying sorry part.

Due to issues with depression last year, I still have problems with compulsive apology.

This Troper had huge problems with this when he was younger - it was a manifestation of mild OCD, apparently. It apparently got insanely annoying - and looking back, I can certainly see why. I've gotten better, but it hasn't warn off entirely.

This Troper tends to apologize a lot. Even for apologizing. And well, it's because I always tend to be afraid that I annoy people, so I tend to say sorry a lot. Then of course, that behaviour ends up annoying them anyway.

As a child, I was this trope incarnate. I don't know why - I just had a tendency to apologize all the time. It got so bad that my grandmother would constantly tell me to stop apologizing so much. I don't apologize as much anymore, but I still do it a lot.

This troper apologizes for almost everything, including apologizing too much and apologizing for apologizing.

Even if I know I haven't done anything wrong, I'll apologize. My habit has been known to spark exchanges like this: #QUOTE#'''Me and my friends''': (sitting on the floor, talking) #QUOTE#'''Random Kid''': (steps over us and bumps into me) #QUOTE#'''Me''': "Sorry!" #QUOTE#'''Friend''': "Why did you apologize?" #QUOTE#'''Me''': "Because he bumped into me." #QUOTE#'''Other Friend''': "Stop apologizing for stuff you didn't do." #QUOTE#'''Me''': (resisting urge to apologize) "Okay."

This also applies when something hasn't been done that I didn't know about, when I'm saying, "No," and when I remember something embarrassing (Luckily, I apologize silently in the third case). When someone else apologizes for something they couldn't control, I usually end up saying, "Don't apologize. You sound like me."

This troper has a fear of disappointing people, so she apologizes or asks to be excused quite often. Like her terrible singing voice: when she sings a fancover of a song, she says "I'm sorry for my pitchiness. It's hard for me to hit the pitches just right."

This troper used to do this constantly. It was mostly because her long-time friends had recently abandoned her for saying the wrong things. Fortunately, she has since stopped (for the most part).

This Troper has done this ever since he was a kid. I think it was caused by the fact that he almost severely injures his grandmother when she slipped on a toy car I had. I've been apologetic since that day. It is a verbal tic that comes with me, along with my other catchphrases.

This Troper had this exchange with a friend once while she was angry. #QUOTE#'''Me''': "Sorry!" #QUOTE#'''Friend''': "Stop saying sorry." #QUOTE#'''Me''': "Sorry!" #QUOTE#'''Friend''': "I mean it! Stop saying sorry!" #QUOTE#'''Me''': "Sorry!" #QUOTE#'''Friend''': "I hate it when people keep saying sorry! Stop!" #QUOTE#'''Me''': "Sorry!" #QUOTE#'''Friend''': "AAAAAAAAAAAAGH!" #QUOTE#'''Me''': "Sorry!"

This troper frequently says "Sorry, I appologize a lot."

Edgy used to do this until his girlfriend (now wife) broke him of the habit.

This troper ends up apologizing to everybody and everything he bumps into...up to and including doors, walls, pillars, cars (that he's driving!), game consoles, chairs, and tables.

I apologize a lot. So much that each year I play softball, my coach has to explicitly tell me that every time I say sorry to someone I have to pay him a dollar. They never really follow up on that, though, which is probably why it still happens..

Me too, but mostly to myself, inanimate objects, ane people I talk to on the net. Strangely, almost never to real people.