My mother isn’t a very nice person. She does have many qualities but niceness certainly isn’t one of them. She will go out of her way to try to upset strangers — it has become a hobby which brings her hours of pleasure. I’ve always found her behaviour very embarrassing.
Looking back, I think I’ve tried to compensate for her meanness by being exceptionally nice to everyone. Lately I’m starting to feel that maybe I’ve been too nice and my niceness is about to snap. Fantasies of ramming my shopping cart into the backs of other shoppers’ feet have been creeping into my mind. The fantasy scares me.
Does it mean that deep down am I really a hurtful person like mommy dearest? Is it normal for nice people to think about injuring obese grocery shoppers — who buy unhealthy amounts of high-fat foods? Would doing it just once get it out of my system or could it unleash a repressed dark side?
Expressing your anger can be a wonderfully comforting and rewarding thing to do! You shouldn’t suppress it, as it will make you cold, bitter and psychotic. Look at your mother. She’s an evildoer — an extremely happy and at peace evildoer! Doesn’t this tell you that it’s always best to express your true feelings?
You going around being nice to everyone and everything is the kind of sick and perverted behaviour that has helped turn our society in to a herd of grinning imbeciles! You should embrace your anger and let the world know of it! When people keep it in as you do, they will start fantasizing about kicking kittens, tripping toddlers, or as in your case, pushing shopping carts in to people.
However, violence however is not the way to do it. There are a million and one other more productive ways to express your anger:
- Stealing all the toilet paper at your local movie theatre…
- Squeezing loafs of breed, and crushing bags of chips at the grocery store…
- Spending a couple of hours moving DVDs around at the video store…
- Building obscene snowmen on other people’s front lawns…
- Placing huge orders at fast-food drive-throughs and driving through without picking anything up…
- Smiling, and giving the finger to prison inmates while making sweet love to your woman…
- Going to the park and flying a huge kite that has the words “screw you!” on it…
- … Your idea here!
- Dog
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