Hey Josh

Adventures In Poorly Focused Anger

We’ve all had our bad days.  The stream of sort of annoying events starts early and then all of a sudden, you’re at a store’s cash register after spending an hour shopping and you realize you’ve forgotten your wallet.  You might say “This is the worst day ever”, but hopefully, you know you don’t mean it.  There have been worse days and there will certainly be other bad ones to come, but as long as there are more good days than bad, everything will be alright.  Things don’t have to be perfect, but as long as you don’t flip out over one of the silly little bad things that happen on a bad day everything will be ok.This is the story of someone who didn’t make it through the day.

He flipped out, and now the whole thing has blown up in his face  (in a figure of speech way).  A man in Wichita, Kansas went to a McDonald’s (not the one in the picture, which is actually in Hawaii, but looks like it’s from the Swiss Alps somewhere and used to be visited by the von Trapp family), pulled his car up to the drive through and when told that the double cheeseburger was no longer on the “extra value meal” menu, he decided to punch the drive through window.  The store, not appreciating their window being punched, called the cops who eventually arrested the guy.

So, what did this guy get out of his little tantrum?  A bit of jail time, it seems, which makes the whole punching the window over a fifty cent price increase thing seem a  little silly.  The lesson, next time, just pick something else from the menu.  No burger is worth being thrown in jail over (and maybe even hurting your hand).

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