“Are you just annoying bynature, or did you take a seminar?”
“I wondered if there was a crazy person's license you had to apply for, some seminar you had to attend, or if you could just walk out of the house one day and get started.”
“Kid, you might just annoy me into killing you.”
“He left the unspoken question hanging in the air. How did one annoy a two- kilometre-long black rectangular slab? And just what form would its disapproval take”
“You can't be disgusting to people just because they annoy you!" she exclaimed very crossly. "Thousands of people annoy me! Millions of people annoy millions of people all the time! . . . You have to put up with them.”
“What happened to you? Did you finally annoy someone enough to have them beat the shit out of you?”