Same here. I can't stand people who make situations unecessarily awkward. I have a friend who is constantly on edge, everything is a competition to him and he takes offence very easily. It can get quite tense after a prolonged period of time in each other's company, a missplaced word and he'll silently explode. Although I also find subject changers very annoying, when you're in a social situation and two people are teetering on the edge of an argument the worst thing in the world is the asshole who steers the conversation to a less volatile topic. Well....I am a bit of a shit stirrer when the mood takes me.