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Tables of Contents for The Pocket Encyclopedia of Aggravation
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
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