Product Description

The big things in life look after themselves. Birth, love, death - they're all terrifically exciting but they happen whether we like it or not. It's the little thinks in life that cause the most trouble. How do you deal with the million and one everyday challenges? Help is at hand. For the first time you can get intelligent practical tuition on the level you need it. The trivial level. After years of exploring the small pockets in life's backpack in his celebrated 'How to' column in the Weekend Guardian, Guy Browning has the rules that can help you move safely and effortlessly through the micro-chicanes on life's byways, including: What are the consequences of hitting a jellyfish with a spade? Should you cross your bridge when someone else is burning it? In a monogamous relationship is it morally acceptable to tuck your side of the duvet in? What's the clearest way of giving directions to a place you've never heard of? What is the best way of establishing a queue when you are the first person in it? In breaststroke what do you do with your head when's it's underwater?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13211 in Books
• Published on: 2004-09-23
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 192 pages

Sunday Times
‘Perfect’ Caroline Gascoigne, Books for Christmas

Sunday Times
• ‘A brilliant one-off in which everyday matters are skewered with deadpan style and deadly accuracy.’

From the Publisher
Invaluable advice on questions such as:

What are the consequences of hitting a jellyfish with a spade?

Should you cross your bridge when someone else is burning it?

In breaststroke what do you do with your head when’s it’s underwater?

And most crucial of all, what is the best way of establishing a queue when you are the first person in it?

Customer Reviews

Fantastic for anyone with a good sense of humour
Wow! This book is a great find for anyone with a decent sense of humour. It's packed full of wit about every daily-life subject under the sun. The author finds the comical truth in many every day topics and this makes it applicable to just about everyone - delightfully unusual for a humour book and perfect as a gift for friends and relatives though I warn you - you won't want to part with it once you've got it. You'll find yourself laughing til you cry as you spot yourself in section after section: 'ramblers travel in packs and are always led by a man or woman with a beard and a big knobbly stick. He's known as Ramblo.' And, with searching questions like 'why anyone ever used a cut-throat razor is an absolute mystery; it's like driving a hit-tree car or wearing a make-baby condom.' Almost every sentence in the whole book makes you smile til your jaws ache and it is no wonder this book has been the talk of the town. Can't wait for the next one....

Perfect present for the difficult to buy for..
Perfect present for the difficult to buy for and the easy ones too.
Great looking book crammed full of laughs on everyday topics. Browning hits the nail on the head every time with his observations on real things other people just don't write about like sheds and handbags, fighting for the duvet and how to manage with big ears. Something for absolutely everyone - best book I've picked up in ages.

Hilarious
Not five stars, as I preferred his other writing, however still really funny. Browning writes about the things which everyone thinks but nobody says... Like the times you are in a public changing room and you find it hard to change in front of people you don't know - so everyone tries unsuccessfully to slide their clothes on underneath their towel which is wrapped around their naked body!

The book is full of short (2-3 pages) "How to...."'s in different chapters. It is a really good "in-between books" book - and also you can read one chapter and come back to another later as there is no order, and the chapters do not have to be read together to make sense.

Highly recommended as a gift, or for yourself if you want a laugh!!