Annoying Places in the World

• Mt. Everest, littered with spent oxygen tanks and deceased climbers bent on "summiting," an annoying word
• Countries that make guitars out of armadillos
• Australia with its violent animals, kicking kangaroos, baby-eating dingos, surfer-swallowing Great White sharks, and biting, scratching Koalas.
• Nissan Pavillion: getting there, being there, getting out of there.
• Afghanistan
• Romania, especially the gymnastics connection
• Cuba, except for their food and music
• Nebraska
• Special pop cult sections in bookstores, like ones for Leonardo DiCaprio, Oprah, and Frank Sinatra
• Celebration, Florida
• Ave Maria, Florida
• Utah
• Miami, for a lot of reasons, including the high level of hositiliy there, the sprawl, and their streets, which are like, South NE West 162nd Street or Joshua Bedlerson Blvd. Things like that.
• Germany
• Café-restaurants inside museums, most of which feature some sort of quiche
• Hotel coffee stations at conferences and meetings
• Mexico
• Nigeria
• Buffalo, New York
• Ireland
• The Pacific Northwest
• Restaurant Sequoia
• Finland, except for the music of Sibelius and their dogs
• Delaware, which in order to attract attention is moving up its political primary to steal the thunder away from New Hampshire