Anger at inanimate objects

[Sammi]

I only get angry if they're really broken and I don't know how to fix them. Typically I'll just yell at them, though. Last thing I want is to break it even more. I have a sad habit of talking to inanimate objects sometimes. People must think I'm weird. ._.

 

[Miz en Scène]

I don't swear at inanimate objects, but I do perform a whole lot of reproachful staring if they disobey my commands. I mean, you were built to print papers, not spit out crumpled paper with barely legible ink.

 

[groteske]

Commercial printers with counter-intuitive & dumbed-down interfaces and absurdly slow processing times (as in 5+ minutes of sitting before 'oh, that IS the right stock, sry lol' /print) piss me off on a daily basis at work. Trouble is they're leased and worth around $150k apiece so I can't do what I want, namely to beat the sodding LIFE out of them with heavy metal objects. But having grown up with a destructive younger brother with anger issues, that's not a real possibility as useless destruction disgusts me at a very base level.

But.. sure is a satisfying thought sometimes.

 

[Meganium]

Oh yes, I rage at inamimate objects, because I treat them like people because they work. When they stop working, it makes me mad, and wanting myself to yell. lol

 

[XtinaIsMeLuvinWWE]

Haha I've been known on occasion to do that! :D

My computer annoys me all the time, it freezes occasionally and sometimes it's just WAY too slow for my liking, even though it's going at normal speed lol.

My phone will be the death of me - it's taken to freezing at random intervals and refuses to work again unless I keep it on the radiator for elongated periods of time.

I also got super angry with my Nintendo controller once, bit it and then flung it bodily across the room lol.

I also get really angry at doors - if I catch my sleeve on a handle or if I stub my toe on one then it is ALWAYS the door's fault, not mine.

 

[fenyx4]

Right now I'm quite pissed at my printer because it won't print an all black text because its oh-so-important light cyan cartridge is empty*. My self control was just barely strong enough not to yell swear words around in a huge quantity, but still, I hate that damn thing.
Googling "F--- YOU PRINTER"** showed me that I'm not the only person to get angry at things, in fact it turns out there have been people getting angry enough at their printer to brutally destroy it in public, something that looks more tempting to me with every time my printer manages to enrage me.


Anyways... Do YOU have a tendency to get angry at inanimate objects? If yes, to what degree, and do you deal with the anger in a verbal or physical way, or just swallow it?


*And what makes it worse: If one color (besides black, which I do have reserves of) is empty, I have to rebuy an entire box of cartridges, which, of course, is hella expensive.

LOL...I hate printers like that; where printing is more-or-less disabled because one color that you're not even using is depleted of ink.

Ha, all the time! Especially my bed. I'm always stubbing my toe when I walk around it, like it's leg thingy or whatever it is.

I get mad at other things besides my bed and calling them names. I really should stop doing that.

Basically anytime I stub my toe or something like that. I dunno, I guess screaming at a stool helps dullen the pain!

ANYTIME I stub my toe on anything or accidentally hit something with my arm/fingers, I yell at whatever inanimate object gave me pain. Usually chairs and tables for the tripping part, and walls and doors for the whacking-arm-accident part.

Commercial printers with counter-intuitive & dumbed-down interfaces and absurdly slow processing times (as in 5+ minutes of sitting before 'oh, that IS the right stock, sry lol' /print) piss me off on a daily basis at work.

LOL at failish printer and its hilarious derpy conversation(s). :cer_laugh: :cer_laugh: :cer_laugh:

I broke a table once. It started it.

:cer_laugh:

I also get really angry at doors - if I catch my sleeve on a handle or if I stub my toe on one then it is ALWAYS the door's fault, not mine.

Agreed.

I also yell at slow computers (usually of the Windows XP variant, sadly. I never even yelled at a Windows 98 computer so bad. Maybe because Windows 98 computers are expected to be slow, and a Windows XP computer that's as slow as a 98 is just sad.) and printers that constantly break down, jam, or spit out error messages. Computers especially, because if there's a problem, the actual cause for the problem could be out of hundreds of possibilities, and troubleshooting is no fun if the problem continues to persist after you've tried like a dozen methods.

For some reason, I've always dreamed of a mansion where there was a room solely dedicated for the purpose of physically taking out anger on inanimate objects, where everything in said room is unimportant yet satisfyingly destructible.

 

[Nick]

I do that all the time, and then for the strangest reason, I feel guilty for it. As if they have feelings, you know? Haha... :(

 

[Mr Cat Dog]

Recently I've been having trouble with my credit card (some part of the 'chip' inside is acting up occassionally), but the main problems only come when I have to withdraw money from an ATM machine. About 50% of the time, the machine will just spit the card out after asking for my PIN number. Upon this, I proceed to grit my teeth and start muttering expletives under my breath, all the while trying again and - presumably - failing on top of this. When the eventual line starts forming behind me, my ranting gets louder until about the fifth attempt, when I can finally withdraw money.

Maybe it was all the anger that finally made the machine want rid of me or something?

 

[Honest]

Oh my god. So, I play soccer, also known as football outside of the US, in this small park. There are trees around, and this one statue of a bear which is pretty much in the middle of the area we play in. We have to play around it. I myself play as goalie. Once, the bear was getting on my nerves SO badly. My team was loosing 9-2 and I just started to blame the bear. I actually kicked it... which was a bad idea. >> Hurt my toe badly. Also, we went on to loose the game. This other time, we were playing, and some lucky punk kicked the ball into a tree, which rebounded in my direction and went in the goal. My team was so pissed. I had the ball in my hand. I just got so mad, I beamed the ball right at the tree... and the ball came back to my face. >> I was knocked out for a few seconds too. >< Stupid tree.

 

[Cherrim]

I get pretty annoyed with things but usually before it tips over into outright anger, I go find something else to do. It's rare these days to find something that's so right down to the wire that I have no choice but to face the anger head on. But when that does happen, I usually don't do anything drastic anyway. Most I'll do is just head up to my room and talk to myself a bit, or maybe punch or bite a pillow, and then calm myself down. But I haven't done that since I was a teenager anyway.

I won't even throw my controller if I'm angry with a game. Most I'll do is (somewhat gently) slam the controller/system down on my lap or onto the couch cushion while still holding it so as not to damage it. :x

 

[FlamingThunder]

When I was playing Shadows of Almia, it took me like more than 50 attempts to catch Drapion, I was like, "HEY DS, YOU WANT TO WRESTLE ME? OK THEN, BRING IT ONNNN!

 

[Massacre.]

Yeah, especially when it comes to video games. One time I broke my PSP after I lost a Dissidia match.

I often say "F**kin Printer" too like, if I'm out of ink.

 

[RYOUKI]

No, I don't get angry at inanimate objects. It just feels... wrong. When my computer is lagging, I pull out my hair, but I never get angry at the computer, I get angry at the internet. Why is it lagging my computer!? STUPID INTERNET! And everyone knows that the internet is alive.