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It was, for the French and Germans, a disagreeable foretaste of the fiercer reactions a real delay might produce.
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Even the storied Rio Grande, which she and Brian had seen on a disagreeable weekend trip several years ago to Matamoros, was hardly more than a drainage ditch.
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Sadly, for four nights in August, drinking viche was a necessary evil, a rite of passage in the same way that cheap keg beer is a part of university and getting hit in the groin is a disagreeable consequence of riding a mechanical bull.
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After reaching her thirties, she suffered a medical event that pretty much pushed over the wall from being strange, difficult and disagreeable to strange and sometimes rapid mood swings and a highly volitile dangerous personality.
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And they know how to disagree without being disagreeable, and there's a sense of civility and a sense that there are moments where you set politics aside to do what's right.
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Even the patient Nelson Mandela thought Inkatha a pain and found visits to KwaZulu-Natal disagreeable.
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Russell Muirhead, searching for a new ethic of work, often seems to assume that work is inherently disagreeable and tedious.
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The couple will then fly to the French-speaking province of Quebec where a small, radical separatist group has vowed to make their brief stay as disagreeable as possible.
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The life-long bachelor also had a misogynist streak - he found the lawyers and civil servants he knew in Calcutta had "disagreeable wives".
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An assertive woman knows that it takes a strong sense of self to succeed she has to make boundaries and even be disagreeable to be the best boss.
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Hopefully we can get back to a discussion about the issues that are important in this country, that we can do without being personally disagreeable and set up comparisons to things that were so insidious in our history that anybody in any professional walk of life would be well advised to compare nothing to those atrocities.
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