The Science of Telling Someone Off: 164

The Sacred Art of Finally Saying It There comes a moment in nearly every human life when politeness stops being a virtue and starts looking suspiciously like self-betrayal. You have smiled. You have nodded. You have taken the high road so many times there are now toll booths, rest areas, and a Cracker Barrel gift shop up there with your name on it. You have "let it go," "kept the peace," "been the bigger person," and "chosen grace," despite the fact that the other person has chosen chaos, volume, entitlement, and the emotional coordination of a raccoon trapped in a vending machine. And then, one day, the system reaches pressure failure. The words rise. The face changes. The spine straightens. The room knows something is about to happen. This book is about that moment.

Pages: 409, Paperback, Independently published