The cover of How to Worry Friends and Inconvenience People

How to Worry Friends and Inconvenience People

Ideas by Martin Davies

Roll your own tampons
Sit next to the only other person on an otherwise empty bus
After taking money out of a cashpoint, wave it around and exclaim loudly “I won!”
End an exam essay with “The End”, or “Fin” if it is a French exam
Only aspire to jobs which have a particular accent attached (police, farmer, pirate etc)
Only like animals which come in pairs (tortoise and turtle, rabbit and hare etc)
If you call a TV a “gogglebox”, call your computer the “googlebox”
Practise Shipmanship, the art of resembling Harold Shipman
…or “prodigal”
Call a ladder that isn’t yours, but belongs to a close relation, your “step ladder”
Erect another statue of Nelson on the fourth plinth
Refer to MySpace as “Rupert Murdoch’s teenage mass observation project”