irritant
adj. & n. (something) causing irritation.
Its late afternoon. Quiet (as quiet as a locality in Mumbai can get). You are figuring out how to make your page reload using Javascript, in which you are a novice. You have five tabs open in your browser and you are busy trying and evaluating the best method. And an IM contact pops a window on your desktop with a greeting that is so reeking of artifice, you lose your cool.
Your irritation causes you to take your IM contact to task for that pretense. What follows is a vicious cycle of irritation causing you to shelve your coding and take out your anger (frustration?) on the contact, resulting in a conversation which only serves to increase your irritation.
After it ends and you have your application ready, you wonder about the cost of that interruption.
Who was the lucky guy???
varun
22 Jan 06 10:55 am
It was me, actually that 1/2 hour conversation cost me 3 days of 2nd class travelling
amey
24 Jan 06 9:31 pm
I meant, you wonder about the cost to you, not to the person who interrupted you.
rvbhute
25 Jan 06 6:15 pm