I may have preferred a Rule Lawyer in my situation! My friends wanted to expand our 3.5 D&D group, so we put out a call for a couple new players. We picked up two seemingly nice gents. The first of which wanted to be the DM. We all agreed and proceeded to play our first game. That's when the new DM said to us, "Oh, by the way, I don't play with the 5 foot step." And pulled out a sheet of 135 "house rules" he wanted us all to adhere too. Needless to say, that group didn't last long.