WAYS TO BE ANNOYING
TAKEN FROM "LIFE'S LITTLE DESTRUCTION BOOK" BY CHARLES SHERWOOD DANE

 
· Take the hotel towel
· Pay tolls with $100 bills
· Practice the art of limp handshakes
· Tell the ending of movies
· Give little kids clothes for their birthdays
· Leave the toilet seat up
· Take more than
· items to the express checkout lane
· Turn on your bright for oncoming traffic
· Finish other people's crossword puzzles
· Use the last square of toilet paper
· Tailgate the elderly
· Drum your fingers during other people's presentations
· Blow out other people's birthday candles
· Don't leave a message at the beep
· Leave your supermarket cart on the street or in the parking lot
· Block the entrances of elevators, buses, and subways
· Eat produce at the market; don't buy it
· When giving directions, leave out a turn or two
· Toss things out the window: tissues, cigarettes, cellophane food wrappings and those sorts of things
· Leave the outdoor Christmas decorations up until March or April
· Serve corn on the cob to people with dentures
· See if you can be the first one off the plane, even if you are sitting by the window
· Put a title like Senator or Doctor before your name when making dinner and hotel reservations
· Before exiting the elevator, push all the buttons
· Go up the down escalator (B.P., this means you)
· Develop at least three strategies for cutting into the front of lines
· Snap your gum
· Squeeze the toothpaste from the top, and while you're at it, leave the cap off
· Open umbrellas in crowded hallways
· Announce when you're going to the bathroom
· Read over other people's shoulders on the bus
· When it says, "Reserved Parking", this means you
· Pinch all the chocolate candies until you find the one you want
· Leave your pantyhose hanging in the shower
· Chew other people's pencils
· Lie to your therapist and sit in her chair
· Let doors slam behind you -- in other people's faces
· Tell teenagers how things were in your day
· Hold the elevator until you have finished your conversation
· Pee in the swimming pool
· Ride on the shoulder until you pass all the jammed traffic; then cut in
· Wear large hats during the movies
· Forget the pooper scooper
· Race the old woman for the last bus seat
· Cause gridlock
· Bring 15 things into the dressing room
· Draw mustaches on posters
· Don't rewind videocassettes before bringing them back
· Serve TV dinners, wine coolers, and cherry Twinkies on Thanksgiving
· Walk very slowly, and make sure nobody can get past you
· Touch strangers
· Tell little children the truth about Santa Claus
· Bite your dentist's finger
· Fart in cramped places
· Leave lipstick prints on people's cheeks and foreheads
· Don't stand during hymns and anthems
· Dance fast to slow music and vice-versa
· Rubberneck
· Leave pages in the copier
· Be "in conference" all the time
· Don't clean the dryer lint screen
· Buy it, wear it, return it
· Tell people they have bad breath
· Smell smoke often and announce it
· Eat out with friends and "forget" your wallet
· Put everyone on speakerphone
· Step on the back of the shoe of the person in front of you
· Rain on someone's parade
· Make scary faces at babies
· Flirt with a friend's spouse
· Sit in the home bleachers and cheer for the other team
· Pretend you're listening
· Shake with your left hand