Geez, calm down, already.

Amy: time to switch to decaf. ;-)

Amy is digital caffeine.

Actually I would suggest more caffeine. I know I get calmer once I get my morning coffee.

I was once in a liquor store, where a shaven-headed, heavily tattooed young man got into an argument with the clerk, who barely spoke English. The clerk couldn't understand the tattooed man's request for Marlboros.

The tattooed guy was getting more and more agitated. He turned to me and shouted, "Dude's straight retawded!"

"Hey, hey, hey!" I said. "Your face is purple and all your veins are sticking out! Your head's going to explode--P'CHEW!--and then we'll have to clean it off the floor with a mop!"

I used my hands to make a big sky-rocket explosion in the air.

He stared at me for a second or two, then he laughed and said, "You're right. I don't want nobody cleaning my head off the floor with no mop."

Then he shook my hand, apologized to the clerk, bought his ciggies, and went out. The clerk said, "I don't know what just happened, but thank you."

Telling someone?

It reads more SHOUTING calmdown!

Amy, are your neighbors acting up again?

So true. What asshole told you to calm down?

I used to say that.

Now I just come back with yelling at me really doesn't motivate me to help you.

Do you want my help, or are you just venting?