I don't really lose my temper, I just turn vicious. I can absolutely destroy people with my words while remaining calm.

Sometimes "losing" your temper is the only rational reaction to what is going on around you.

I say lose the HELL out of it when you need to!

Ohhh, I did today!

I did it today while trying to dismantle, clean and re-assemble the chain saw. My goal was simply to make it presentable for sale at the flea market.
I got so frustrated with it not going back together right, I chucked it all into the dumpster.
Totally stupid on my part.

Not something to be proud of..

Don't start. Take that instigating crap to your own thread.

You know, Sparrow. Another thing that is not something to be proud of; your obsession with Carly. It is absolutely weird and creepy. For real. I am not sure you realize how completely freakin' bonkers you appear whenever you have to leave a derogatory comment on every little freakin' thing she says.

It's comes off as totally bizarre and just plain old weird.

I have three forms of temper:

1. Sometimes, I just feel like cussing/arguing/being contrary just to get some emotion outta my system. People who know me well realize that it's nothing serious (referred to in #3). It's definitely not real anger. Often, I'm not angry at all ...

2. Sometimes, I get "pretend angry" ... this is primarily with students (when they do something unacceptable, but obviously, I understand that doing something like giggling during a test is normal teenage behavior ... it just happens to be my job to correct it).

3. When I get genuinely angry, I become very quiet and talk in a very deep, low voice. It is TERRIFYING.

That makes perfect sense. I think I have different levels of anger, too, but only commented on the very worst.

Oh. Wait. The last time I really lost it?

Holy Cow.

Maybe last May.

Not really sure.




I feel very passionately about my students' learning, but that's about it. Although I often think that other people have some perception that I care about things that I could give 2 doodahdays about.

Well then it's a good thing I don't take you seriously.

And who you calling old? Huh? Yeah.

I lose it driving all the time. That is, I don't say "o, the poor driver must have been thinking something else when he cut me off missing me by two inches".

I think the last time I really lost it seriously when someone I was working with attacked me, going after my professional reputation. I was livid, fought this, and won.

Sweetie, and it's a shame you don't because I have more class, beauty, wisdom and youth in my pinky than you will ever have in your entire life. And it's truly a shame because there was a time you seemed to be more than a bitter, pathetic shell of a miserable young woman who gets her creepy jollies by insulting people on a freakin' internet message board.

My heart truly goes out to you.

I'm the calmest person you will ever meet.


...unless my computer freezes.

Okay, I'm sorry, but Mary is one of the most wonderful people I have ever met in my life.

Some people on this site, I have not met, and could not get behind. But Mary??? Omigoodness. She's a sweetheart!

Now don't hold back..tell me how you really feel.

As if I'd ever allow a stranger to define me.

You keep your heart Mary, cause you need every single bit of it.

Really, read her words to me as if they were directed at you? C'mon.

LOL! Thank you, Maggie. But, don't waste your breath on a lost cause!

Oh let's feel sorry for Sparrow! She's so maligned, so attacked so unjustly!

Give me a friggin' break! You start the shit 99% of the time, and this is no different!

You're like one of those kids who can't tell the difference between good and bad attention.

Please, spare us.

EDIT: I didn't mean that..

"It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.” -Grace Hopper

I hate to admit it, but I'm a strong believer of revenge is sweet. I am very quiet, and when the opportunity presents itself to get back, i do, and it can be pretty nasty depending on why I'm pissed at someone.

Like I got a cheating ex locked up on drug and weapon charges with anon call to the cops telling them where his stuff was and how much he had.

**Edit** I also have terrible road rage.

I do have a temper and some might say a bad one at that, but it's been ages since I last truly lost my temper. Oh my goodness, I might actually be finally maturing!

But I have been known to break a plate or two in anger or throw something in the general direction of the significant other in a blind rage. I can also channel my anger into daggers in the form of words and completely annihilate the person I'm angry at. Not something to be proud of but many people know this side of me well. I think there's a reason we feel anger and I'm of the opinion that sometimes you just have to let it rip!

It's really hard for me to say...

I know that when I'm mad, I can easily scare the shit out of people. But I always find this strange, because I feel like I very much keep myself in control when I'm mad. Pretty much always.

But a part of me thinks I do that, because if I lost it, I could really cause damage. And I think that comes across in my controlled anger--I think people are frightened that I might go BATSHIT CRAAAAZZZYYYY!

I once had a guy I was dating, who was a big guy and over six feet, tell me with absolute fear in his voice that he worried that if he ever upset me, I might hit him.

I haven't hit anybody since the third grade. And I SWEAR, up and down, (as I think is apparent from AV) that I am a talker. I talkedy talk talk talk. I'm all about talking out a problem. Talking, not hitting--and I'm a big fan of seeing it from the other person's angle.

But when I'm even mildly annoyed, I apparently shoot death rays out of my eyes.

So I guess, no. I rarely lose my temper. It rarely gets to a point that I have to.

The last time I remember really losing my temper was on the phone with a taxi dispatcher about five years ago who had forgotten to send my cab and made me late to work. If she hadn't been a terrible asshole about it (and she really was) I wouldn't have. But I was kind of glad that she was an asshole, because my how the obsenities flew. And it felt good.:)

yes..i have one. but i control it. i lose it every time there's noise , but i dont' think i have to tell you that :)

I do not have bad temper, but I will tell it like it is and have a low tolerance for bullshit.

In my group of friends and family, I am the blunt one and get shushed a lot.

However, last year I did have an out of body road rage moment. Nothing like this ever had happened to me before.

Some guy cut me off in traffic, and I honestly don't remember the next few minutes very clearly. I must have scared the guy because he let me have my place back in traffic! LOL.

I had been on the phone when this happened, and when I finished screaming obscenities, I picked my phone up off my lap and my girlfriend was like, "Blondie.... Is that you???? What the hell just happened?? Are you okay??"

Haha!