Inexplicably rude Sims?

[Korva]

Has anyone else run into Sims who react negatively to pretty much every interaction you try on them? I've encountered this with both Dayvid Musgrave in Moonlight Falls and Derek Khan at university. It's not a matter of badly conflicting traits -- Dayvid is Friendly, so it baffles me even more. Derek is Avant Garde who are "harder to impress", but I've chatted and befriended other Sims with that trait just fine. Nor is it a matter of trying to chat with a stuck-up celebrity: neither of them had any stars. And they weren't upset with me about some previous faux pas either, it began with the very first interaction. At first I thought maybe high-level Rebel Derek had issues with an "outsider", but no other high-level social group members did, and that still wouldn't explain Dayvid's dislike for my Sims.

I didn't try talking to Dayvid again, but with Derek I persevered to see if it'd stop if my fairy would manage to become friends with him. It did, but sheesh -- that took a long time and many double minus sign setbacks.

Another curious discovery I made in the process of befriending him: AUTONOMOUS interaction options, either from him or from my fairy, didn't trigger his attitude. Only the ones I actively selected did. Before we reached the friends stage, the only interactions that Derek didn't slap me with big red minus signs for were Enthuse About Exercise (which is odd as neither he nor the Sim I had talk to him are Athletic) and Playfully Pester (fairy interaction). Oh, and Apologize. 

Weirdness ...

[Trip]

Dislikes children has the side effect of making sims reject almost every social interaction, and both of the sims that are causing you grief dislike children.

The negative reactions to everything will stop if you can manage to get them to friend status or higher. That's what usually works for me.

[Toni]

I've never had this in my game. I wonder what the difference could be and why that is?

[Wiry]

I have many Sims with Nasty cocktails of traits. Diva and Mean Spirited do that to me.

Do they have these?

[Korva]

They don't have any negative traits, no. As I said, Dayvid is even Friendly. So the Dislikes Children trait is busted and does not restrict itself to minors? Figures. Thanks Trip, and yeah it stopped when my persistent fairy finally befriended Derek.

[Turoskel]

As I read your post an image of Kurt Shallow sprang to my mind, I have had the same trouble with him and Odin Crosby on several occasions, definitely the dislikes children trait with those two Riverview residents. I know Kurt is evil and hot headed but those two traits don't cause this behaviour and Odin despite being a bookworm like my sim got annoyed when she mentioned books, that is normally a double plus between bookworms.

I usually find rotating chat and get to know is all that will work on Kurt until the relationship gets higher, anything other than those two results in a negative reaction but then of course I have to make sure I don't accidentally use the same one twice in a row or he gets bored  I wonder why I bother sometimes but then he's my self sims grandfather in law so I feel obliged to try.

[Chuckles_82]

I queue and cancel 'tell ghost story' interactions. They get a plus every time, no matter what their relationship level. Unless of course I have an elixir or high social networking skill