computers

In addition to checking email every six minutes and switching back and forth among thirty applications, we do this one thing 134 times every day at work without even thinking about it. This right-click maneuver is so routine, we really could do it in our sleep.

We all have pet peeves, but some things just have a way of irritating us more than others.  The sound of a hairball-spewing cat at 3 in the morning,  drivers who won't use their blinker, a Mount Everest of groceries in a buggy in the express checkout lane, and, of course, the sporadically malfunctioning computer.