Things I’m tired of hearing as a future forensic scientist

Didn’t know what other category to put this in. Here is a rant detailing things I often hear when I tell people I’m planning on going into forensics, and what I think. It’s not that I hate people asking questions about my line of work, and I know I’m going to get these questions asked whether I like it or not. But it does get a tad annoying. Am I not allowed to be annoyed?

“Ew, you’re gonna be working with dead people? Doesn’t that bother you?”

If it bothered me do you think I would have chosen this field?

“I bet you like Bones.”
“Do you watch Criminal Minds?”
“Oh, just like Abby on NCIS!”

*sigh* No, I did not choose forensics because I saw it on NCIS or Bones or whatever other crime drama that’s currently popular. No, I don’t want to watch them either. Stop asking.

“You do realize it’s not like what’s on CSI, right?”

Gee, I wasn’t aware that a fictional representation of crime scene investigation would be heavily dramatized to entertain the viewers. /s

“Oh, I‘ve seen that on TV!” *proceeds to explain, in detail, an episode of NCIS and how it supposedly relates to my field*

Will. You. Please. Just. Shut. Up.
I. Don’t. Care.
I know how PCR works. I know how to do gel electrophoresis and how to read the gel. I know how DNA sequencing works. I know what a fingerprint is. You’re not telling me anything I don’t know. Stop acting like you’re an expert in the field just because you saw it on TV once.