Okay, picture yourself walking to your kitchen. I don't know how big it might be, or how far away it is from your computer screen, but for some people you might be getting hungry just from the long walk downstairs. Anyway, you are in your kitchen looking for a quick midnight snack to tide you over before you wake up and eat again. All day you have been craving one thing: a nice steamy ham and cheese Hot Pocket. You've been thinking about that Hot Pocket and how deliciously cheesy it will be and the warm feeling you will get as you chomp it down, eagerly awaiting the next bite. Finally, you are at your fridge and you see the Hot Pocket box! You reach inside, ready to get that nice tasty sort-of-sandwich and.. what? It's gone?!?! How can this be? There was one left in there this morning! You search and search the contents of your refridgerator, but with no positive results.
Slightly angered, you leave the kitchen and begin trying to determine which of your fellow housemates took that last Hot Pocket. Could it be your mom? No, no, she would have thought of you first - she is far too sweet. Your sister? No she's on some crazy diet again that doesn't allow the eating of.. well almost anything. Your dad? Possibly... but he's been at work all day. That only leaves one culprit - your little brother! It has to be him. You go to his room, bang on his door and yell "MATT!?" (Ok so I may have personalized this a bit). "Matt did you take the last Hot Pocket?" Matt responds, "Yes. Why?" Slightly frustrated at the fact that he did not even think of you, you tell him to come out of his room immediately. He does, but very reluctantly. "Matt I have been wanting that Hot Pocket all day... don't you ever think about anyone but yourself?!"
Now this is one way to handle a situation like this. Probably not the best at that. You may be very angry at that moment, however, the next time that you are faced with a hot (or lack thereof) and sticky situation like this, think about what would have happened if you had taken the last Hot Pocket......
You're sitting in your room minding your own business, maybe listening to some Cold Play or T.I., when you hear a rude and intrusive banging on your door. You open it to find a small head staring straight up at you with angry eyes. "You ate the last Hot Pocket didn't you!?!?!?" says the tiny head. "Yeah. You wanna do something about it?" "Uhh..." "Yeah, that's what I thought. Now run off."
Ok, so this time it still turned out in your favor, but think about how you would feel if you were a little brother. Come on now... think about it... there ya go, there's that pity. Alright, so now we've determined the source of anger in the common household!: Food! Sadly we can't get rid of food, so I'm pretty sure anger in the everyday household will stay the same. Oh well, better luck next time!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment