Do you have a temper? If so, what kind of things make you angry?

NO! How dare you ask me a @#$%& question like THAT?

Traffic gets me too but I’m working on it.
Really bad customer service or rude customer service makes me livid. I’m a letter writer too.

I am easy going and not a grudge holder either, however…physical pain can bring out my rageful side. I pounded a wooden garden stake into my hand a few months ago….I was hopping mad, swearing, loudly. Pain makes me very angry. lol

Slow-moving pedestrians and drivers. Have a sense of urgency, people!

When people lack empathy for others’ difficult situations. That really fires me up.

When I feel a doctor is taking advantage of the system and harming me in the process. Or, when a medical person just isn’t very good or makes a mistake and it harms me It makes me angry, but it quickly turns into me being upset more than anything.

My dad can be very aggravating. I am quick to an argument with him. I wish I was better about it. My whole family says I am calm and handle him well, but I don’t see it that way.

Whenever anyone thinks I have ill intent it makes me angry, because my intention is never to harm someone. Of course, I know I do sometimes without having the intention, it isn’t that I think I am perfect or that I am right and they are wrong.

Generally I am kind-natured but when I see inconsiderate and selfish behavior and downright nastiness, I lose my temper in the most unacceptable way, I cannot control what I say at those moments. People around me then may think I’m off my rocker!

I think temper is the one of the most important thing in which every person must have a control. There are many people who can’t control in any situation.

I very rarely lose my temper, only when a blue moon is in the skies & when I do it’s mostly due to some inanimate object trying to defeat me…that I fucking hate!

I am pretty even tempered until I get stressed when I can turn nasty.

I get angry over some things, but I get over it easily. Usually it’s because I ask someone to do something and they don’t do it.

Mess with my family or friends & I lose it. Like red to a bull I’ll go full bore at a fool. But I’m mild otherwise lol

And don’t hit your kids, dogs oe elders in my prescence or you’ll go to jail, or get whupped lol

I am suspicious of anyone who doesn’t occasionally ‘lose their shit’....

Nothing specific, but most of my ::ahem:: “outbursts” are preceded by me being tired and/or stressed.

If I get enough rest and manage my time well, very little bothers me.

If not… BOOM.

I get pissed off just about daily when I’m driving.
My son and I got behind an asshole on her phone one day last summer. She was driving about 25 mph in a 55 mph zone, swerving like she was drunk. I couldn’t pass her because there was too much traffic coming the other way. After about 10 miles of this bullshit we came to a light, I was turning right so I had the opportunity to pull up next to her. As luck would have it her window was partially down. I yelled “Why don’t you get off your phone and drive you stupid fucking bitch?” I don’t know who had the more priceless look on their face, her or my son. lol

I also hate rude customers at my place of employment, and slow, stupid servers when I eat out. I tip really well for good service and not so well when the server is a fucking moron. I realize that tips are how they pay the bills, but if everybody tips them 25–30% even when they’re awful, they’re never going to learn. I seriously had a waitress once that asked if I wanted silverware! It’s like….. Oh my goodness no, I’ll just eat this salad with my hands. It was just one idiot move after another. We asked for a different waitress.

I should add that I’m usually a really nice person!

What’s wrong with eating salad with your hands ? I thought everybody did that….

@OneBadApple I hate getting ranch under my nails!

Caesar always ate his salad thus, at the Waldorf if memory serves.

Oh if I see anyone abusing an animal or a child look out!
I am pretty damn fearless when it comes to defending the underdog.
I also, recently, called a guy out in a parking lot for being an oblivious imbecile after stepping right off a curb and walking in front of my car without even looking. Pffft!

Thing is with me, I have a way with words and don’t need to resort to out of control hysterics, I just very calmly and very firmly speak my mind.
The funny thing is that I have been told that I intimidate people which I find very amusing because, in general, I am one of the most humorous and easy going types there are, until….you fuck with me, especially if you try to manipulate me.

I dumped a “friend” a few years ago that was manipulative and she was giving me the run around when I confronted her on her bad habit of not asking and instead announcing how things were going to be, speaking for me and others..
I told her VERY firmly ” You do not EVER speak for another without ASKING them first!”

She started to cry. haha
I just saw it as more manipulation which it was. I seriously could kill manipulative and passive aggressive types with my bare hands. lol

@Coloma (applause)

Not at all, unless it comes to my family or animals.

I used to have one but I lost it.

The older I get the more patience and empathy I seem to have..I give people a big ol’ benefit of a doubt because you just never know what kind of crap they’re going through (could be in pain, stressed out, etc.)...I think my husband is a positive influence on me because he’s got the longest fuse in the world.

However, if I see you hit a kid in Wal-Mart, treat an animal poorly or shoot your mouth off being hateful towards anyone…I say something.
I start out really nice, even if I’m mad. I use my “mom voice”—I can’t even help it.

One time I was in Wal-mart and this woman was chewing out her young kid (he looked kindergarten age) calling him names and smacking him on his head. I walked over to her and said: “That’s my son over there. He’d love to play with your son for a while if you’d like a break. Would you like me to watch him for a few hours?” She stared at me in shock..and mumbled something like “no”..and I said: “You sure? Well, Okay then.” I looked at the tearful little boy and pointedly said: “Bye, sweetie.” She didn’t yell or lay a hand on him the rest of the time in the store. I didn’t judge, I didn’t threaten..I just offered help..but it seems like it was enough to make her check her behavior.

I’m working really hard to get more patient when I drive, too. A few years ago I got my own wake-up call. I was teaching Sunday School and we were talking about things we need to work on and I mentioned that I need to curse less when I drive.
One of the little boys started laughing really hard…and said: “Yeah, you flipped my mom off last week. We thought it was hysterical!” Talk about mortification. (She’d been trying to catch up with my car to wave at me..she was in the right lane that goes away (ends) when the road goes down to just one lane. I mistakenly thought she was trying to pass me on the right and flipped her off without seeing who it was..and here it was someone I really like! Ooops!! I try really hard not to shoot other people the bird these days.)

Good stories which we all can learn from @geeky_mama

I try to always remember, before verbally (or pictorially) trying to ‘straighten-out’ every idiot driver who comes along that a lot of them are carrying loaded weapons in their car, and no matter how “right” I am, I could easily lose big-time in an otherwise very avoidable encounter….

I don’t see the need in getting angry, never solves anything. I might get annoyed once in a while but not angry. Things that annoy me are too many commercials on tv, I love dogs but I don’t like when people let their dogs run outside without their leash, accidentally stepping in dog crap because someone was too lazy to clean it up, anyone in business who try and rip people off. Parents who let their kids run around in the grocery store as if it’s their own personal playground.

@geeky_mama: All understood, but I just can’t imagine trying to catch up to someone on their passenger side (when the road is narrowing, too) just to wave hello!

I have a short fuse, anymore.

Slow and/or cold fast food burns me up. Poor service generally fires me up.

Driving. Slow drivers, people you fly up on when you have cruise control that speed up the minute you change lanes to pass. People who keep you in their blind spot. People that stay in my blind spot. People who don’t signal.

Anyone that I do not know that ring my phone, tick me off.

People that won’t stop talking long enough to the other person to get a word in burn me.

People with short tempers are the worst!

;)

@ibstubro Well clearly you have the curmudgeonly, cranky, old geezer phase of life.
lol

Picturing Walter Mathau in ‘Grumpy old men.” haha

That’s probably an accurate picture, @Coloma, as neither old man was actually grumpy, or old at heart. That’s what made the movie and what keeps me unmurdered.

Yesterday for the first time I watched the first 30 minutes of ‘The Odd Couple II’, which came out in 1998. It only got 1–½ stars, but the parts I saw were pretty amusing, especially when Oscar gave Felix ‘the finger’.

Also when Felix was telling about his flight to California and they showed him on the plane, sitting between two people doing that “ssmahh….ssmahh” sinus-clearing thing….

I hate it when any of my loved ones are being too bossy towards me like it’s my role to serve them.