Strike Back With Pictures

Annoying Komodo She-Dragon
Ball Point Pen and Colored Pencil on Scrap Paper
By Karen K. Remus Copyright 2013

The next time you get annoyed with someone, don't draw a sword, draw a picture.  It has been said that the pen is mightier than the sword, and believe me, that's absolutely right.  Once you have drawn your nemesis as a venomous giant lizard, for example, you will never be able to take them seriously again.  In fact, the next time you see this person, and they start pulling their mean routine, you will burst out laughing, and they'll wonder what's so funny.  They'll have no idea that you just pictured their long, forked tongue lashing out and grabbing a juicy fly off the computer screen.

If your foe is vicious and cold, turn him or her into a piranha, a poisonous snake, or some really hideous, mindless thing, like a lamprey eel. The only hesitation I have with this coping strategy, is that sometimes the person is so repugnant, the picture is an insult to piranhas, snakes, or eels.  But they don't know.  The important thing is that you get your annoyance out of yourself and onto the paper.  Let the paper do the worrying...  because the next thing you're going to do is burn it.