8 Reasons You're Still Mad
You've learned to meditate. You write in your gratitude journal. Your day was asteroid-free. So why can't you stop seething about the grocery bag that burst all over your porch this morning?
By Amy Shearn
2. Even Soda Bottles Act Like Divas These Days
When you call the cable company about the Internet connection that isn't working, customer service encourages you to solve the problem...by going online. Your new steak knife comes sealed in a blister pack that’s impossible to open without said steak knife. Why does everything have to be so complicated? It is called, in scientific circles, The Soda Bottle Law of the Universe: To make eating at your desk more tolerable, you get a fancy soda, and only once you’ve settled in with your lunch do you realize that it requires a bottle opener, as if it were a boutique beer. Your disproportionate surge of rage is completely understandable. Who keeps a bottle opener at her office? Who does that soda think it is?
Published 04/05/2013
