INTERESTING STORY AHOY:
This story has stayed in my mind ever since it unfolded itself, as I never get upset or pissed off at anything or anyone.
Last year, december, my class were setting up a musical as our final project in school. Personally, I love playing music, and I didnt mind the acting bit at all either, but I still really really enjoy being a roadie, or any kind of stage hand. So, I was basically in charge of putting up the lights, the stage and partly responsible for the soundchecks.
I loved it, and even more so because of the fact that the rest of my class thought it was a good idea to have someone from our class in charge of how everything looked, and all that, so it would be as close to what we had imagined as possible.
After one particularily long, long day of work, me and my mate were laying down some of the final light cables, when we encounter a problem. A few lights seem to be out of order. I take the cables down, take them apart, look for potential problems, fix a few things that seem sketchy, and put it up again. Still, nothing.
Me and my mate sit down to think. We check all the other lights, and everything's fine. We change some of the cables, and still those few lights dont work. I try fixing the cable I think is broken; nothing.
About now Im still just thinking and wondering about what the problem might be. Not angry, rather kind of void of emotion. Being in that wonderful flow you get into when you do something you like. Almost like zen.
We accept the fact that I cant fix the cable, and also draw the conclusion that the cable is the problem. Ergo, IT HAS TO BE REPLACED.
Now we start making phonecalls, checking with the school if there might be another one of these cables somewhere we dont know of, eating dinner (We were hungry!) and then finally coming to terms with things: The only replacement we can get isnt available until after the show is set to premiere. We sit down, to think.
Now, something happened to me. I have no idea how, or why, but this particular problem angered me something fierce. It's never happened before, and never in any similiar situation have something as trivial as this angered me.
With an angry look on my face, I walk down from the control table, grab the "aforedamned" cable, take it down, take it apart, light up my soldering iron, and solder EVERYTHING. I swear, that cable has the most thorough, precise, perfect, durable and stable innates in the entire freaking world.
I take a deep, deep breath, and I plug the cable into place again. After a pause, I turn my head up to my mate at the light commander and tell him to, and I quote:
"Test them once more. Let's just test them again. See what happens. If nothing happens, he has beaten me."
...In a very controlled, calm, if somewhat frightening (coming from me) manner. My friend laughs a bit and asks "Who?". I point at the cable, he nods, and as I turn my head towards the lights, he does what I asked him to.
Nothing.
This is where I snapped. My reaction to this was to kick the stage, as hard as I possibly could, to somehow release my anger. Now, everyone was still rehearsing while we were doing this, but everything halted as aforementioned kick hit its target. Everyone stopped, and looked at me. Breathing heavily, I sat down with my hand pressed against my face.
Rehearsing followed a moment after that, so my thoughts were temporarily distracted from my failure. After that, we all went home.
The very next day, me and my mate come back to take another look at the problem. I decide to check something else, that we didnt check the day before, because we thought there would be NO WAY that was the problem. Guess what?
So, during rehearsals that day, I took a moment to apologize to everyone for blowing up like I did. Most of them had probably forgotten it or not even noticed it, but I still felt a need to apologize.
My mate still laughs at me to this day for all this, and he finds it extremely funny that I, since I never get angry, express my more aggressive feelings like a cartoon character. "You have no idea how to be angry, so you just mimic freaking donald duck!"
Alright, it is a little bit funny.
