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Life's Little Annoyances
Ian Urbina
What can you do when the world is pushing you over the edge? More than you think.
True Tales of People Who Just Can't Take It Anymore
Times Books
November 2005
208 pages
ISBN: 0805080309
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
For some of us, it’s the automated voice that answers the
phone when we’d rather talk to a real person. For others,
it’s the fact that Starbucks insists on calling its
smallest-sized coffee “tall.” Or perhaps it’s those pesky
subscription cards that fall out of magazines. Whatever it
is, each of us finds some aspect of everyday life to be
particularly maddening, and we often long to lash out at
these stubborn irritants of modern life.
In Life’s Little Annoyances, Ian Urbina chronicles the
lengths to which some people will go when they have endured
their pet peeves long enough and are not going to take it
any more. It is a compendium of human inventiveness, by
turns juvenile and petty, but in other ways inspired and
deeply satisfying. We meet the junk-mail recipient who
sends back unwanted “business reply” envelopes weighted
down with sheet metal, so the mailers will have to pay the
postage. We commiserate with the woman who was fed up with
the colleague who kept helping himself to her lunch
cookies, so she replaced them with dog biscuits that looked
like biscotti. And we revel in the seemingly endless number
of tactics people use to vent their anger at telemarketers,
loud cellphone talkers, spammers, and others who impose
themselves on us.
A celebration of the endless variety of passive aggressive
behavior, Life’s Little Annoyances will provide comfort and
inspiration to everyone who has ever gritted his teeth and
dreamed of sweet retribution against the slings and arrows
of outrageous people.
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