He began to pick at the fussy fringe on the arm of his chair.

Picking at a salad in a conference room at Google’s headquarters here, Ms. Mayer says she is vexed by how some perceive her.

"[N]oise and disrespect of no kind ain't pleasin' to him. His own folks behave becomin', but strangers go and act as they like. . . . Then we are picked at for their doin's."

"And I know she's my aunt, but she needn't pick at me all the time," she added defiantly.

I get crabby and pick at him about stupid things that wouldn’t normally bother me.

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