2,501 Things That Really Piss Me Off: A Catalog of Insults and Intrusions That are Sure to Ruin My Day
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Intended as a catalog of everything irksome in our lives, 2,501 Things That Really Piss Me Off reviews the broad spectrum of affronts, annoyances, nuisances, grievances, vexations, mortifications, and molestations that disrupt our equanimity and that daily pervert the simple pleasures of living. It gives voice to the time-honored practice of people everywhere in the worldgriping. Within these pages the reader will find items of anger, reflection, humor, social comment, and even the occasional non sequitur. For its octogenarian author, it is pure catharsis, but it is also the author’s intention that the reader be entertained, and, with a little luck, enriched by the realization that the demons that confound him confound the rest of us as well. That he is not alone in his Weltschmerz.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/52,501 Things that Really Poss Me Off by Herb W Reich is a clever and witty book! There is probably more than 2500 things in here from everyday things to crazy things. Nothing is off limits. Then he shares dumb quotes! Other things too. Pretty fun reading!
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2,501 Things That Really Piss Me Off - Herb W. Reich
SECTION 1:
The Offenders
lawyers
politicians
paparazzi
my cousin Marvin
people who have graduated from assertiveness courses
people who leave the price on a gift
when I find dirty words in my alphabet soup
bait-and-switch practices
the boss’s salary
when they make bad movies out of good books
people who don’t leash their dogs
yentas
the Macarena
e-mail spam
waiters who ask, Who ordered the ...?
parents who don’t parent
credit cards that arrive in the mail unsolicited
Eurotrash
people who are always late
people who are always early
hackers
nineteen-year-old technomillionaires
people who don’t understand me
people who do understand me
repetition
reiteration
redundancy
prolixity
superfluidity
why brassiere is singular but panties is plural
checks that bounce
tennis balls that don’t
when police arrest a mime, they must tell him he has the right to remain silent
bad drivers
bad putters
I can never find the inside of my Mobius strip
all day long I’ve been trying to find out what time it is, and everyone gives me a different answer
anything teal
cookies made with lard
talking heads on TV
people who are out to get me
paranoia
that the ancient Greeks never learned to write English so we could read them in the original
Venus envy
premature elaboration
when my beer goes flat
when my bacon isn’t crisp
accordion players
preachers who dabble in politics
politicians who dabble in preaching
the sink spigot that gurgles unproductively, then suddenly hoses out a tsunami wave that floods over the front of my trousers
hitting a succession of red traffic lights when I’m late for an appointment
nepotism
there is no other word for synonym
trompe l’oeil shower curtains
.com
being hit by lightning
newspaper delivery boys who never miss the roof
PTAs that hold cocktail parties to raise money for stop-student-drinking programs
the picture in my closet is getting really ugly
colorized Marx Brothers films
three-card monte games on the street
doctor’s receptionists who think they are working for the Almighty
doctors who think their receptionists are working for the Almighty
the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
the whips and scorns of time
the oppressor’s wrong
the proud man’s contumely
the pangs of dispriz’d love
the law’s delay
the insolence of office
the spurns that patient merit of the unworthy takes
people who display their learning
politicians who dedicate themselves to making the country safe for hypocrisy
body piercing
sanctimonious political candidates
French poodles with polished nails
French poodles
getting a menu of options when I call 911
Panglossian optimism
pseudointellectual display
obfuscating euphemisms
the tax code
the word phonetic isn’t spelled the way it sounds
paper cuts
songwriters who rhyme go with befo’
supercilious head waiters
the annoying music played while I’m waiting on the phone for a human voice
the annoying music played in elevators
the annoying music played in my daughter’s room
the Psychic Friends Network not being able to predict that they were going bankrupt
cutesy TV News anchors
hair loss
memory loss
job loss
sentences that begin, The thing is ...
fortune cookies that lie to me
the weather in Buffalo
psychiatrists haven’t discovered one really good new phobia in decades
computer prodigies and their megathingies
my shrink reads War and Peace
while I’m on the couch
the bank pays interest quarterly, but charges interest monthly
my passport picture
I can’t figure how Teflon sticks to the pan
borborygmus
my inability to trisect an angle
exhibitionists with nothing to exhibit
diner waitresses who call me Hon
the broken E string on my ukulele
Days of Our Lives excludes Saturdays and Sundays
General Hospital doesn’t accept insurance assignment
The Guiding Light went out
palm buzzers
lapel flowers that squirt water
plastic dog doo
dribble glasses
whoopee cushions
dribble cushions
whoopee glasses
the infirmity of good taste in modern society
election results are too often determined by which candidate spent the most money
lawyers
getting hit in the head by a pelota
dandruff
a turnover on the one-yard line
mirrors that distort my reflection
mirrors that don’t distort my reflection
the scurrilous inaccuracies and manufactured controversies in supermarket tabloids
I wasn’t born rich instead of handsome
I wasn’t born handsome
high LDL
the guest room TV that automatically resets to Hotel Channel every time it’s turned