Times where it was hard to keep your cool.

[NotAPie]

Bored as hell, decided to make a topic !

Anyway, have you ever gotten into a situation where you were so angry yet you had to keep calm (or atleast act calm)?
I guess I'll start.

My little brother and I don't get along well, he thinks we do but really I just can't stand him sometimes. Anyway my mom had just come out from surgery but she was tired as hell but she had to babysit my sisters kids. My little brother always just wants to play my xbox with me so I decided it'd be a good way to keep him busy while my mom slept....he played the fucking xbox till 2 in the morning before he went to bed. I finally got some sleep only to wake up to him playing Gears of War 2 at 6 in the morning. It doesn't seem so bad but he did this for about a week...yeah.
It was just really annoying and I couldn't get angry at him because he would cry to my mom and I'd get yelled at.
Your turn!

 

[Timotei]

I once tried to explain to some dumbshit in my computer class the basics of file management. This comprised of simple tasks such as creating folders and subfolders, renaming files/folders and moving and copying files and folders. Stuff even 4 year olds know by now.

I spent two whole hours trying to teach him, but after every demonstration he forgot what to do and I had to show him again.

 

[Koganesaga]

I got detention for a week because every time I spoke some kid thought it'd be funny to say "shut the fuck up", and when questioned by the teacher then told said teacher I was insulting their mother, which I should have for raising such a lil shit.

To add a second one, I was in the back of the room working on a spreadsheet and some kids gathered around that area and started talking. Usually I'd join in because the work is boring, but the spreadsheet was to be graded and unlike them I cared for my grade. Anyway, I'm sitting there working, and one of them says something funny so I glance over and the teacher gave me, not the others just me detention for classroom disruption.

 

[Sjakie]

senior citizens talking too much at the registers in a supermarket and thus holding up the line. If they would have a seizure then and there id forgive them...but they wont do that

 

[PhunkyPhazon]

Huh, funny timing. I'm pretty pissed at my Dad right now for being an impatient, rude, loud mouthed prick. I barely kept my cool, but then again that is what it's like being around him for more then about three seconds. Even right now I can hear him grumbling angrily below my room.

Anyways, a bit more on topic. Every class spent with my 9th grade Science Teacher was a huge test on mental endurance. She gave more work then every other science teacher combined (Literally, that was actually proven), she took rules way too literally which led to some extremely unfair incidents, and she was a total ***** by nature.

Pop quiz: If you had to put up with a person who says, and I directly quote "I don't make mistakes" on a daily basis, how long could you go without punching them in the face?

 

[PhunkyPhazon]

I got detention for a week because every time I spoke some kid thought it'd be funny to say "shut the fuck up", and when questioned by the teacher then told said teacher I was insulting their mother, which I should have for raising such a lil shit.

This has just resurfaced a repressed memory of mine. There was this kid in middle school who was always a complete jerk to me. Everything from name calling, uncalled for insults and stealing, you name it he'd done it. There was one time where I lightly tapped him with a ruler, and he ran to the nearest teacher and told them I'd smacked him with it. Before I could even plead my case, I was slapped with detention. And of course whenever the teacher wasn't looking, he'd slip me an evil grin because he knew it was a lie.

EDIT: Sorry, I didn't think this would be a double post.

 

[(whitty name here)]

Huh, funny timing. I'm pretty pissed at my Dad right now for being an impatient, rude, loud mouthed prick. I barely kept my cool, but then again that is what it's like being around him for more then about three seconds. Even right now I can hear him grumbling angrily below my room.

Anyways, a bit more on topic. Every class spent with my 9th grade Science Teacher was a huge test on mental endurance. She gave more work then every other science teacher combined (Literally, that was actually proven), she took rules way too literally which led to some extremely unfair incidents, and she was a total ***** by nature.

Pop quiz: If you had to put up with a person who says, and I directly quote "I don't make mistakes" on a daily basis, how long could you go without punching them in the face?

0.0001 seconds. I'm right cause I don't make mistakes.

Probably my recently divorced-from-my-mother step-dad.

He ets kicked out of the house he went to after he left my mom and then eats all our food. He then gives us a few boxes of Mac 'n' Cheese and some mushroom soup and says we're even.

Or when I babysat his bastard child for money. It took him 3 YEARS to fucking pay me.

 

[SmartIdiot]

Everyday art work. Fortunately I'm leaving that fucking place at the end of the month, still... communicating with drunk people is like talking to toddlers. No, wait, it's not. You're more likely to get an intelligent response from a toddler.

Kids are scarily smart these days.

 

[CloggedDonkey]

well, I go to a schooling system, so Beetles songs are the only thing keeping me from just going "fuck it" and leaving on a daily bases. ho, and the teacher that gave me and F last semester because he couldn't find some papers(all of them done). and almost every kid in the school(except the crowd that is smart, like me) thinks "OMG TEH WERLD WIL IND N 2012LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!111ONEONEOENE". so yes, I have had a few times where I wanted to punch someone in the face, but had to just say "yes, you are right."

 

[Iron Criterion]

My "bestfriend" began dating my ex almost immediately after we broke up, and during our weekly gaming sessions he would tell me about the kind of things they would get up to. I thank god for wireless controllers or else I would have fucking strangled the twit with the wire.

 

[TheTim]

Being forced to agree with past history teachers on WWII subjects that were 100% wrong

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Keep my cool?

Never. I let you know how I feel.

 

[pfc_river]

Here's one that I will never forget. I was working in a video rental store. The store was pretty much empty, rather boring. Two older ladies come in and want to set up an account. No problems so far. The issue comes up when we require a credit card authorization to start the account. They get it in their heads that we were trying to steal their identity or something. "According to Clark Howard (a financial advice dipshit in the U.S.) you can't ask for that."
We require a line of credit to start a video rental account. Damn straight we can require it. It went on and on until we finally got it worked out, them blaming me for trying to steal their card or anything.
The kicker was when they were starting to leave. To each other, in front of my face, one said to the other about me: "He'll understand when he has something of value worth protecting." I could have vomited liquid hatred at that very moment. My boss, behind me the whole time and also part of the exchange, joined me in cursing them after they left. We both could have seriously punched them in the face.

 

[Shock and Awe]

Well this was today actually,

My JROTC class was standing at attention(arms by your sides heels together) this morning while the order of the day(Recent events, upcoming practices ect) was being read, this wide load piece of shit that sits next to me was standing there texting on his goddamn phone. Usually I couldn't give less of a shit about people texting in class, but in JROTC, if one person fucks up like that, everyone can expect to catch shit for it.

Apparently he noticed that I had a scowl on my face and said "Oh is this bothering you" in a way that made me even angrier, and started poking my arm with his phone, and the TO didn't even notice somehow. It took every ounce of my self control not to snatch the little shit's phone and throw it against the wall across the room.

 

[Random Argument Man]

It's pretty hard to burn me up. You really have to know me to push the right buttons.

Although, there's an ex who said a very personnal secret of mine. After two weeks, she lost her boyfriend, half of her friends and half the school hated her because of me.

I'm a nice guy. However, do not piss me off.

 

[VanityGirl]

Depends, I lose my cool if I'm being polite to someone and they respond by being a rude, snobbish jerk. It's a pet peeve really.

If someone seriously makes fun of anything involving my family or boyfriend, I'll go after them head on. I've never been in a fight before, but I'm whiley, I'd hurt someone.

 

[geldonyetich]

I'm generally calm in 99.9% of the situations because I don't see much point to losing my cool - it just makes any matter worse, after all. There could be a Jupiter-sized comet careening right at me and I wouldn't be screaming my lungs out - what good would that do?

However, I still have a vulnerability to situations that persist for a long period of time. For example, if I'm on a message board thread where the other guy insists on arging with me but is unable to understand what I'm writing that has gone on for hours. Or a day in which one little thing goes wrong after another in rapid succession.

 

[VoidEternal]

Ninja Gaiden. Hard Mode. Nuff said