The cover of How to Worry Friends and Inconvenience People

How to Worry Friends and Inconvenience People

Ideas by Alistair Johnston

Say your mobile phone number when you answer it
Get in behind someone on a revolving door
Zigzag down escalators like you’re on a moving stairway in a musical
Loudly clap and cheer with recognition and delight when a film mentions its own title: “We’ve got to go back… to the future!” Yay! *clap*clap*clap*clap* Wooo!
Mime asterisks with your fingers to emphasise a word in conversation
Buy a relative progressively cheaper Christmas presents, then, one year, spend five times as much as the year before
Play “Where’s Wally?” on the Tube instead of Sudoku
Look through a different person’s window each day of advent