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19 October 2006

I called my insurance company, expecting a fight. But they were perfectly pleasant and helpful. What do I do with all this psyched-up righteous anger?

post by: occhiblu at: 14:25 | 40 comments

I have that problem all the time. I get all worked up, and then I have nowhere to put that energy. Generally, it doesn't disapate until I go to the gym. And I don't go for a few days, I get all constipated with righteous anger.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 19 October | 14:26

What do I do with all this psyched-up righteous anger?

You know what I do? I beat the hell out of the phantom scrollbar.

*click click click CLICK click*

posted by mudpuppie 19 October | 14:27

Why not go trolling on the blue?

posted by pieisexactlythree 19 October | 14:31

Oooo, yea, trolling!!!! I like to do that, too.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 19 October | 14:32

I'd could say something stupid and you could yell at me for awhile.

Uh, gender studies are lame, dude.

(I'm a giver.)

posted by jonmc 19 October | 14:33

Take it out on some eggplant.

posted by Specklet 19 October | 14:41

Torture a kitten.

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 19 October | 14:46

Flag a bunch of posts on MeFi.

posted by matildaben 19 October | 14:47

Ready, set, go.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 19 October | 14:51

Why not go trolling on the blue?

Flag a bunch of posts on MeFi.

um, unless you're angry at me personally, please don't do this.

posted by jessamyn 19 October | 14:52

Yell at the insurance company anyway. They deserve it. They're an insurance company. Even though they didn't fight you in this one instance, somewhere a grieving mother is receiving a claim denial letter because the life-flight helicopter took her dying son to a hospital that was NOT A MEMBER OF THE PLAN after his car accident.

So fucking yell at those cocksuckers anyway.

Damn, I'm getting worked up myself just thinking about insurance companies...

posted by dersins 19 October | 14:54

I find flagging posts to be an unsatisfying way of working through emotions. It's too impersonal.

And trolling doesn't work either. Being mean to people for good reason -- like, you know, they're stupid -- can be satisfying, but that's more of a "I'm depressed and pissed at the world" sort of mood, not a "I'm overly caffeinated and have no outlet" sort of mood.

I need a blog, I think. It's random ranting I need.

posted by occhiblu 19 October | 14:57

dersins, they didn't actually *fix* my problem, just implied that it was a billing mistake, very helpfully said they'd look into it thoroughly, and that they'd get back to me next week. So I have to save *some* of this anger just in case I do have to direct it at them next week.

posted by occhiblu 19 October | 15:14

Go break a couple of empty bottles in the parking lot. No better cure.

posted by Divine_Wino 19 October | 15:15

Ready, set, go.

Oh, man, ThePinkSuperhero, that is a decent question, but it's asked in such an annoying, "look at me I'm so clever" kind of way that it makes me want to punch the asker in the throat. So not suprising, considering who's asking it...

posted by dersins 19 October | 15:38

Yell at the insurance company anyway. They deserve it. They're an insurance company.

I, uh, I work at an insurance company. Not in claims or anything, mind you—in fact, my little brother quit a claims job here after a week or so, because of the soullessness and stuff—but, uh, yeah.

posted by cortex 19 October | 15:51

I DON'T DESERVE YOUR SCORN.

posted by danostuporstar 19 October | 15:56

So, yeah - yell at cortex, then.

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 19 October | 15:56

I'll take your scones though, I'm pretty hungry.

posted by danostuporstar 19 October | 15:59

The local organic store has a bunch of scone artfully arranged by the counter, under a sign that says "SCONE HENGE."

It makes me happy.

posted by occhiblu 19 October | 16:04

The should build a tall, thin pyramid of those, occhiblu. In the street. And call it TRAFFIC SCONE.

posted by cortex 19 October | 16:22

I, uh, I work at an insurance company.

When I was in college I temped at an HMO in upstate NY, in claims. My job was to write denial letters. I lasted about two weeks before I wanted to open a vein (either mine or someone else's.

When I quit, I told the supervisor there that I had never imagined there was so much evil institutionalized in a major American industry (hey, I was, like, 20, whaddaya want?.

Needless to say, I never got another gig from that particular temp agency.

posted by dersins 19 October | 16:23

Wow, I'm missing at least two of these ) in the above comment. It's almost like I'm drunk, except not.

posted by dersins 19 October | 16:24

))

There you go.

posted by occhiblu 19 October | 16:26

YOU DON'T DESERVE MY SCONE!

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 19 October | 16:26

Thanks, occhiblu.

posted by dersins 19 October | 16:28

When I quit, I told the supervisor there that I had never imagined...

I just added the words "teh" and "adn" to their spellchecker dictionary.

posted by jessamyn 19 October | 16:30

Ha!

posted by occhiblu 19 October | 16:34

Huh? Did I miss something?

posted by dersins 19 October | 16:40

If "teh" and "adn" are in the custom spellcheck dictionary, dersins, they won't be corrected.

posted by cortex 19 October | 16:42

Oh. Right.

Maybe I *am* drunk.

posted by dersins 19 October | 16:43

(At least in theory. I fear that the more aggressive Modern Technology at work in recent Office releases may handle common token misspellings with an autocorrect hook that stands apart from the spellcheck function. In which case you'd need to disable or modify the autocorrect settings. On the bright side, doing the latter would allow you to correct proper spellings to improper. public becomes pubic, etc.)

posted by cortex 19 October | 16:44

(I wish the dictionary on my phone for automatically filling in text messages could be added to. It doesn't know the word bitch!)

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 19 October | 16:46

(Me too, Pink. Mine always changes "fucking" to "ducking.")

posted by mudpuppie 19 October | 17:23

Well, personally I love the feeling of having a bunch of pent-up anger, ready for release, and then (when it turns out I have no reason to actually release it) just letting it dissipate, like someone triggered an emergency pressure release valve in my soul.

posted by Rock Steady 19 October | 18:07

Go break a couple of empty bottles in the parking lot. No better cure

NO GODDAMN YOU!!! I have to ride my bike thru that fucking parking lot...

bloody cretins.

thankyoudrivethrough.

posted by lonefrontranger 19 October | 18:21

Not my kind of parking lot you don't.

posted by Divine_Wino 19 October | 18:37

Oh, also the next time you call me a cretin you better fuckin smile real wide.

posted by Divine_Wino 19 October | 19:26

From the linked AskMe thread:

(Disclaimer: as I have not yet kicked every guy that I see in the nuts and documented his reaction, I don't have a statistically valid reason to say that. But I digress.)

If there ever is a medical study on the psychological reactions to being kicked in the nuts, I want to be one of the test administrators. This may be a very cruel thing to say, but I'm still dealing with crying issues, so...

*grins, runs, ducks, hides*

posted by TrishaLynn 20 October | 09:06

I have that problem with cops...all the one I have encountered are perfectly nice to me.

I find this perplexing, to say the least.

posted by black8 20 October | 17:02

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