She was not an unkind woman, despite a lifetime of being gently dried out on the stove of education, but she was conscientious and a stickler for propriety and thought she knew how this sort of thing should go and was vaguely annoyed that it wasn't going.
Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.
Anytime a movie or television show retreats into certain American pasts, I'm both annoyed and relieved.
