We all have DAYS. You know the kind I mean. And moments in days, and sometimes entire weeks.

There is one way to make your bad-day, bad-moment feelings known without causing harm to yourself, family members, coworkers, or that kid who plays trumpet loudly and badly every night for an hour.

Grrrr.

See what I mean?  A G followed by some R’s is a simple and elegant statement, pregnant with meaning yet easily understood.

It’s the perfect response when irritation has you in its grip, and naming names is counterproductive to, say, your income.  Think you might scream the next time your coworker uses the last drinkable coffee and doesn’t make more?

Don’t scream.  Simply fire up your Facebook page and post a status that goes like this – Grrrr.  Feel better?

Your Facebook friends will proceed to “like” your status.  They don’t have to know the details.  They understand you are having a DAY.

Tired of the neighbor’s faulty car alarm going off with the slightest breeze or when a loud and rumbling moped drives by?  Still in disbelief that “you-need-Viagra-right-now” and “send me money, I’m a poor Nigerian” pleas continue to make it past your spam filter?

A Facebook posting of one G and four R’s should suffice.

Has your brother not returned the last three messages you left asking for help moving your new 9 foot couch up two flights of stairs?

One G and five R’s.

Did you get a ticket on your way to 7-11 to get a Coke Slurpee?

That requires one G and six R’s, possibly seven.  After all, that was a $150 dollar slurpee.  I hope you mixed some cherry into your coke flavor.

Car getting repossessed?  Okay, so it doesn’t work in every situation.  But it works wonders for everyday stressors, your own or others’ stupidity, and the general ridiculousness of the human condition.

Try it and see.

Grrrr.  It’s the perfect stress-reducing Facebook status.

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