Monday, August 06, 2007

Pencil-dropper

Usage:
What you call someone when they callously and/or hastily drop something on a counter or table top after you take the time to courteously hand it to them in the first place.

Origins:
One of the myriad of things I came up with after years of frustration in the service industry. Mostly due to trying to pick up customers' credit cards off of counter tops with no fingernails. Why can't they just hand me their card like a normal human being? Dammit! But, I digress.

Wrench-thrower

Usage:
What you call someone when they are constantly doing things, consciously or sub-consciously, that slow you, or anything you are working very hard on, down.

Origins:
Came up with this after seeing this idea demonstrated in many animated cartoons from the 50s: antagonist throws a wrench into the hero's large and industrious machine in order to slow it down or destroy it completely.