Do you get mad easily?

You’ve got some nerve asking me that!
Actually, I am famously slow to anger, but stick my face in shit long enough and I am slow to calm down.

Putting up with idiot drivers for 30years gets me going.

^Agreed. Traffic/other drivers get me heated, quickly.

Kinda, yeah.

I tend to get over anger quickly too though. It flares up and goes out soon after. I’m not the type of person who silently holds a grudge for a long time.

It really depends on a few factors, but I do get mad fairly easily but let it go quickly as well.

And once you have intentionally been a turd a few times, you’re blacklisted for all time unless you apologize.

For me, what causes anger is mostly people’s inability to listen to another pov without being childish and lashing out.

Nah, life is too short for that shit.

I’m small and middle-aged, all the actions associated with mad are good aerobic exercise. the jumping up and down and waving my arms about, especially.

Get off my lawn!

No. I’m pretty laid back.

Strange and interesting how our brains function. People get mad so often and I wonder what the benefit is in modern society. Back ancient times when our ancestors were struggling to survive during absolutely brutal times there was perhaps a survival advantage for anger. Get mad and fight or die young.

Nowadays we suffer with our anger. Why? Because some fool did some crazy thing. Not our fault but we punish ourselves with anger.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Mark Twain

The last time I got really angry was when a police officer falsely accused me of running a red light. That guy was a first class narcissist.

No, I get even…you live longer & happier that way see.

I took my granddaughter to the hospital for a post op exam. I explained to the receptionist that I was very sensitive to hand sanitizer and to please see make the people attending us to NOT use hand sanitizer in our presence. It gives me asthma. I asked them to have the people put it on out in the hall and let their hands dry before entering the room. They agreed.

So when the doctor entered, The first thing he did was squirt on a bunch of hand sanitizer! I held my breath and ran out of the room. And after that they didn’t even go out to check up on me to see if I was OK!

What a bunch of jerks!

@snowberry That’s got to be frustrating. Sorry for your sensitivity to hand sanitizer. I’ve never heard of someone being allergic. Try to understand that hand sanitizer use is strongly enforced in hospitals. In the hospital where I worked all employees were required to use hand sanitizer or wash hands between every patient. Much quicker to use the hand sanitizer. There were continuous safety studies going on to determine the amounts of hand sanitizer that each department used. We were required to save all our empty hand sanitizer containers in special 5 gallon buckets to turn in to the safety officer to indicate compliance (or not). Some nursing departments even had competition going to see who use the most hand sanitizer. We were told to use the hand sanitizer every time you walked by one in the hallway. It got crazy and was too much. People were watching to make sure I was using the hand sanitizer. I use to occasionally fake it by tapping on the dispenser just hard enough to make a noise but not with enough force to get hand sanitizer on my hands and then rub my hands together like there was hand sanitizer on them.

Good health to you!

Actually, I’m probably not allergic to the sanitizer part of the ingredients. But I am highly sensitive to many fragrances, and it’s hard to find hand sanitizer made without it. I say it sarcastically, but I think it’s true, that people think something hasn’t been sanitized unless it smells clean! And it doesn’t smell clean, unless it smells like some fragrance.

That’s a lie, by the way. I have learned from experience that it’s better to just assume that all hand sanitizers have a fragrance added and are going to cause me problems and so I avoid them like the plague. For myself, I cannot possibly know which fragrance is going to bother me because I can’t begin to know what chemicals are in it. Hospitals (and doctor offices) are not safe places for me!

Many people (including many doctors) think allergies such as I have are weird, or at least psychosomatic, which actually complicates the issue.

Here’s the backstory on fragrances. The fragrance industry is highly protected by international laws. Nobody has to list the ingredients of the fragrances, and any particular fragrance, whether it’s a designer perfume or your favorite brand of Lysol, has a cocktail of up to 200 or more different chemicals in it! None of those chemicals is beneficial to the human body, and all of them are toxic in one way or another.

@gondwanalon “Try to understand that hand sanitizer use is strongly enforced in hospitals. In the hospital where I worked all employees were required to use hand sanitizer or wash hands between every patient.”

Very true, and I would add that the sanitizing of hands in front of the patient is very intentional and part of the training. It’s intended to show the patient that you’re being careful of transmitting infection. It’s similar to the sign in the bathroom: “All employees must wash hands.” That’s there to remind employees, and (even more importantly), it’s there to give the customers piece of mind.

@snowberry I’m certainly not an expert on allergic reactions (psychosomatic or otherwise) to industrial fragrances. I do know that the Gojo soap the custodial crews use in our building causes a minor rash on my hands that I suspect is related to a fragrance. I do realize that you explicitly requested for your care team to not use sanitizer, but as @gondwanalon pointed out, the hand sanitizing behavior between patients is pretty deeply ingrained (and that’s a good thing) and encouraged. I’m not surprised that they slipped up, but it does seem like it was handled poorly on their part.

As to the original question: I tend to have a very long fuse, but when it does go off I go pretty ballistic. It’s infrequent and intense, which is probably a bad thing in all honesty, and something I should work on.

I don’t think I get mad too easily but when I do it becomes a strength. I learned this teaching in the classrooms.

Still nope.