Life’s Little Annoyances: True Tales of People Who Just Can’t Take It Anymore Audiobook
Life’s Little Annoyances: True Tales of People Who Just Can’t Take It Anymore Audiobook
- Stanley Tucci
- Macmillan Audio
- 2005-11-03
- 1 h 56 min
Summary:
True Tales of individuals Who CANNOT Take It Anymore.
What can you do when the world is pressing you over the edge? A lot more than you think.
For some folks, it’s the automated voice that answers the phone when we’d rather talk to a real person. For others, it’s the reality that Starbucks insists on phoning its smallest-sized espresso ‘tall.’ Or simply it’s those pesky membership cards that fallout of magazines. Whatever it really is, each folks finds some facet of everyday life to be especially maddening, about Life’s Small Annoyances: True Stories of individuals Who CANNOT Consider It Anymore and we often long to lash out at these stubborn irritants of contemporary life.
In Life’s Little Annoyances Ian Urbina chronicles the lengths to which some individuals will go when they have endured their pet peeves long enough. We meet the junk-mail recipient who returns undesirable ‘business reply’ envelopes weighted straight down with sheet steel, therefore the mailers must pay the postage, and the woman, fed up with the colleague who held assisting himself to her lunch time cookies, who replaces them with pup biscuits that look like biscotti. And we revel in the seemingly countless number of techniques people use to vent their anger at telemarketers, noisy cell phone talkers, spammers, and other people who impose themselves on us.
A compendium of human being inventiveness, this audiobook provides comfort and inspiration to anyone who has ever gritted his teeth and dreamed of lovely retribution against the slings and arrows of outrageous people.