Show Brain Builders Are You Y au Irritated By These By DONALD A. A LAIRD Ph D. D Sc D. D One hot uncomfortable afternoon afternoon after after- noon a few summers ago the mailman brought a copy of a scientific jo journal jour jour- ur urinal inal nal to Dr Hula Hulsey Hul- Hul a sey Cason The Ther r army ex-army psychological psychological psycho psycho- logical officer had been waiting waiting wait wait- ing for this Issue Is- Is sue and sat P down immediately immedi immedi- y to read it itA A coll e a g u e also interested v in the technical magazine came cameto cameto to his chair and began to read it over Dr Cason's shoulder Laird This Irritated Dr Cason a little but when the theother theother other person put a foot on a rung of Dr Canons Cason's chair it was too much for him He had no sooner uttered his sharp words of annoy annoy- annoy annoy- ance at these On b One Une A perfectly natural o of f Q a acts when he Ina in a gentlemanly Series manner regretted regretted regret regret- ted them Being a scientist Dr Cason did more than regret his hasty words at these annoyances Why did reading over my shoulder annoy me he pondered Was it the sultry weather Was It because I L am more irascible than most men men He decided to find out wh what t everyday things annoyed most people why some p people were more mOle easily bothered than others and what could be done about It to make this world more moro pleas pleas- ant For some 10 ye years rs he has been experimenting on how not notto notto notto to make oneself an to others He has discovered some 2500 different things which annoy annoy or irritate people Strangely enough more than halt half hal of or the annoyances annoy annoy- ances are due to things done by other people Here are some of the most annoyIng annoying annoying an an- things people do CheatIng CheatIng Cheating Cheat- Cheat Ing in games young p persons not respecting their elders ally c complaining women women swearing swearIng swear swearing swear swear- ing crowding in front of people who are waiting walling in a line talking talking talking talk talk- ing audibly in movies theater lecture or concert criticizing continually asking people to re repeat repeat repeat re- re peat something they have just said Other pet peeves which are marked but not as strong as the above are A salesman trying to force a sale a sales clerk calling customers dearie deans or similar terms arguing habitually a a. dictatorial dictatorial dictatorial dic dic- manner seeing someone being nagged grown person using us using using us- us ing baby talk acting like a know- know it-all it telling little lies hinting at sexy t topics pl s. s |