Pocket Encyclopedia of Aggravation 97 Things That Annoy, Bother, Chafe, Disturb, Enervate, Frustrate, Grate, Harass, Irk, Jar, Mife, Nettle, Outrage, Peeve, Quassh, Rile, Stress Out, Trouble, Upset, Vex, Worry and X, Y, Z You!

by Lee, Laura; O'Leary, Linda

• ISBN13: 9781579122171
• ISBN10: 1579122175
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal

Summary

Describes the reasons behind such annoyances and aggravations as gnats, beingaught in traffic, a dripping faucet, Internet flaming, and snoring.

Author Biography

Laura Lee is currently producing a U.S. tour of the Russian Classical Ballet. She is the author of The Encyclopedia of Aggravation and The Elvis Impersonation Kit, both available from Black Dog & Leventhal.

Table of Contents

Introduction	8	(4)
A
Academic Language	12	(2)
Acne	14	(2)
Air Travel Delays	16	(2)
Airline Food	18	(2)
Aluminum Foil Against Dental Fillings	20	(2)
Annoying Commercials, or ``You've Got Ring Around the Collar!''	22	(2)
Ants	24	(2)
Armrest Wars	26	(3)
B
Bad Breath	29	(2)
Barney	31	(2)
Blaring Commercials	33	(2)
Booming Car Stereos, or This is Your Brain on Noise, Any Questions?	35	(3)
C
Car Alarms	38	(2)
Cats Shredding Furniture	40	(2)
Caught in Traffic	42	(2)
CD Ski..i..i..i..i..p	44	(2)
Cell Phones	46	(2)
Chewing Gum Pollution, or Gumfitti	48	(3)
Children's Stories Over and Over and Over and	51	(2)
Cockroaches	53	(2)
Common Cold	55	(2)
Computer Viruses	57	(3)
Computers aka ``This @#%$& Machine!''	60	(2)
Cookie Mush at the Bottom of Your Mug	62	(2)
Coughing in the Theater	64	(2)
Cracking Knuckles	66	(2)
Credit Card Debt	68	(2)
Crinkling Candy Wrappers at the Theater	70	(3)
D
Dandruff	73	(2)
Dentist's Drill	75	(2)
Dieting	77	(3)
Dripping Faucet	80	(2)
Dust Coating Your Computer Monitor	82	(4)
E
Ears Popping in Airplane	86	(2)
Echo on the Phone Line	88	(3)
F
Farts	91	(2)
Fingernails on a Blackboard	93	(2)
Flat Beer	95	(2)
Fleas	97	(2)
Flies	99	(2)
Foot's Asleep and Foot Cramp	101	(1)
Free Time? What Free Time?	102	(4)
G
Gnats	106	(2)
H
Hangnails	108	(2)
Hemorrhoids, or Thanks, I Think I'll Stand	110	(2)
Hernia Exams	112	(2)
Hiccups	114	(2)
Hitting the Funny Bone: It's Not Funny!	116	(2)
I
Ice Cream Headache, or ``Brain Freeze''	118	(2)
Improvements That Make Things Worse	120	(2)
Inefficient Sidewalk Pass aka The Sidewalk Dance	122	(2)
Internet Flaming	124	(3)
Interrupting, or Let Me Finish My Sentence or You Die	127	(3)
J/K
Junk Mail	130	(2)
Keyboard Crud	132	(3)
L
Laser Pointers	135	(2)
Legroom on Airplanes, or The Seatback in Your Face	137	(2)
Lines: The Other One is Always Faster	139	(2)
Lost Luggage	141	(3)
M
Maps: Your Destination is Always in the Fold	144	(2)
Medical Gibberish, or You Have Permission to Remove My What?	146	(2)
Mimes	148	(2)
Mosquitoes	150	(3)
Motion Sickness	153	(2)
Movie Trailers that Give the Whole Plot Away	155	(3)
N
Noise	158	(2)
Nylons Full of Runs, or Disposable Clothing	160	(3)
O
Office Cubicles, or Fattened Up in the Cube Farm	163	(2)
Overplayed Music, or If I Hear that Ricky Martin Song One More Time	165	(4)
P
Paper Cuts	169	(2)
Parking Lot Battles, or Get Out of My Space!	171	(2)
Potholes, or Fasten Your Seatbelts, We're in for a Bumpy Ride	173	(2)
PowerPointization of the Nation	175	(3)
R
Road Rage and Road Rudeness	178	(3)
S
Slow Drivers in the Fast Lane	181	(2)
Snoring	183	(2)
Song Stuck in Your Head, or Cerebrum Annoying Reflux Action	185	(2)
Sour Milk	187	(2)
Speeding Tickets	189	(2)
Standing Too Close	191	(3)
Stupid Warning Labels	194	(3)
T
Telemarketing	197	(3)
Toast Always Lands Butter Side Down	200	(2)
Too Much Perfume: The Employee with the Scent Cloud in Your Face	202	(3)
TV: Always On	205	(4)
U
Unmatched Socks	209	(2)
Unsolicite Bulk E-mail aka Spam	211	(3)
V
VCRs Flashing 12:00...12:00	214	(2)
Vending Machines Spitting Out Your Dollar	216	(3)
W
Waiters, Really Bad	219	(3)
What Did I Come in Here For? Or Destinesia	222	(2)
What is the Word?	224	(3)
X/Y/Z
Xmas for Christmas	227	(2)
Yellow Spots on Public Toilet Seats, or If You Sprinkle While You Tinkle	229	(2)
``Your Call is Important to Us'': on Hold	231	(2)
Zippers, Stuck	233	(2)
Bibliography	235