While mulling over what to write for this week, I realized that this column more often than not talks about pleasant and nice things. And so I thought that maybe I can write something different for a change just this once. (My husband warns me that readers may find this piece a bit nasty though. Oh well, I sure hope not!) Just this time, I’d like to write about simple, everyday things that annoy me, and probably you too. Here’s my complement to the A-List of favorite things I wrote in a previous column, the Z-List (as in Zany List) of Pestering Peeves and Pesky Things.

• Price tags that are double-taped on pens, paper, and worse on books you buy.  This is something that happens too often to me—while peeling the price tag off a book I bought as a gift, I end up wrecking the part of the cover where the price tag is attached;

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