Don't Get Scrooged
eBook - ePub

Don't Get Scrooged

How to Thrive in a World Full of Obnoxious, Incompetent, Arrogant, and Downright Mean-Spirited People

  1. 176 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Don't Get Scrooged

How to Thrive in a World Full of Obnoxious, Incompetent, Arrogant, and Downright Mean-Spirited People

About this book

Inside find helpful advice, such as: - Take a Vacation, Not a Guilt-TripDon't Get "Should Upon" - Hades or Homecoming?Opt In- or Out-of Family Events - Quit Being Your MotherBan Worry from Your Holidays - It's Not Daytona—You're Not Jeff GordonDon't Try to Cook Tailgating Turkeys Don't Get Scrooged is a jewel of a handbook on how to avoid, appease, and even win over the Scrooges who haunt your holidays. Whether it's the salesclerk who ignores you in favor of her cell phone, the customer who knowingly jumps ahead of you in line at Starbucks, the unnaturally irritable boss down the hall, or the in-laws who invite themselves (every year) for a two-week stay at your house, you will always need to deal with Scrooges, grumps, uninvited guests, sticks-in-the-mud, and supreme party poopers. Learning to handle them whenever and wherever they appear is not just optional—it's essential.

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Information

Publisher
HarperOne
Year
2009
eBook ISBN
9780061850271
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies

Table of contents

  1. Dedication
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. It's Not Daytona
  5. Take a Vacation
  6. Guest Room Grinches
  7. Dodge the Oddballs
  8. Do as Columbo Does
  9. Have Dessert, but Skip
  10. Handling Cruella the Salesclerk
  11. Be a Hum-Bug
  12. Take Back the Wheel
  13. Agree and Be Free
  14. Hades or Homecoming?
  15. Tune 'Em Out
  16. Picture the Perfect Encounter
  17. Go to Your Room!
  18. Don't Dance
  19. Call a Lawyer
  20. Love the Players
  21. Let Go, Let God
  22. Remember to Breathe
  23. Expect Less, Enjoy More
  24. Get Mad, but Not
  25. Be Mad About What
  26. Let 'Em Steam
  27. The Benefits of Selective
  28. Keeping Your Identity
  29. Quit Being Your Mother
  30. Give the Gift of a Second
  31. The Punk Band
  32. Retail Therapy
  33. Let Jerks Be Jerks
  34. Professional Victims
  35. Turn Hissing Cats
  36. Taking On Teams
  37. If You Were Dr. Phil
  38. Open-Heart Policy
  39. Watch and Learn from
  40. Hunt Hard for Something
  41. Scheduling Your First
  42. Go Toe-to-Toe
  43. Size Up Your Opponent
  44. Acceptance
  45. Terrible Teens and Suggestions
  46. When the Boss Ain't
  47. Spin That Turkey
  48. Check Your Mood
  49. How Not to Ruin
  50. Enough About You
  51. Your Life Is Your Message
  52. Red Light Means "Relax"
  53. Discovering Your Inner
  54. Acknowledgments
  55. About the Author
  56. Copyright
  57. About the Publisher

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