We all have a group of people who annoy us, often for unexplainable reasons. They rub us the wrong way, set our teeth on edge, make our blood pressure rise or just sour our day. Their sudden presence is like a bad smell wafting across our nose or a bad taste filling our mouth. Often we want to slap them across the face (but usually we do not). Some of these annoying people are relatives, friends and neighbors, others are bosses and other authority figures like teachers, priests and policemen.

But many of them are people we know only from a distance as glimpsed on screens, on the stage or in print: celebrities, actors, musicians, artists, politicians, pundits, self-appointed experts.

Let me share with you a few of the people who annoy me. The list starts with the most annoying person in the world: CHLOE SEVIGNY.

Why doesn’t she just go away?

Here are some others, in no particular order: Sarah Palin, Annie Leibovitz, Adam Sandler, Sofia Coppola, Marc Jacobs, Tom Hanks, Robin Williams, Matthew Barney, Daniel Lebeskind, Keith Oldermann, Quentin Tarantino, Tom Ford, Joe Lieberman, Julian Schnabel, Johnny Depp, the Wayans brothers, Rem Koolhaas, Steven Woolf, Clarence Thomas, the entire Danforth family, Don Fisher, Lawrence Summers, John Galliano, Michael Bolton, Mayor Bloomberg, Arnold Schwartzenegger, Condoleeza Rice, Mario Batali, Sacha Baron Cohen, Woody Allen, Dale Chihuly, Jesse Jackson, Richard Serra, Neil Young, Tom Cruise, Russell Crowe, Peter Halley, Steven Spielberg.

The list could go on and on and on…

But you get my drift. It doesn’t include the truly despicable like Henry Kissinger and George W. Bush nor the purely evil like Osama bin Laden.

Does anyone out there have someone they’d like to add?

Remember to make it someone whom more than just you and your friends know, even though it would be hard to resist adding your boss.