Dealing with frustration

Frustration can be frustrating, especially when the causes of the frustration are not under the control of the person being frustrated. We know that most people experience frustration from time to time, but we have noticed that the Parent Corporation has been exerting itself to cause more frustration at this time of economic downturn. We had expected that our efforts to inform the world of the Unholy Brotherhood of the Hole Punch's evil aims would allow our world citizens to avoid acute frustration, but we have apparently been frustrated in this goal.

At the GNU Public Dictatorship we are nothing if not concerned for your continued peace and well-being, so we will take some time now to help you understand the appropriate response to frustration. The most important thing to remember is to vent your frustration in a way that will not cause you more frustration. Nicholas Adornetto chose to vent his frustration by destroying property at a Wal*Mart store, which, unfortunately caused him more frustration. This is clearly not a good way to get rid of frustration. We suggest the following guidelines for how not to deal with frustration:

• Don't kill anyone. While it may be tempting, the law generally frowns upon homicide.
• Don't make prank calls. Most people have caller ID.
  
• Don't destroy property, as our example above did. It generally creates more problems than it solves.
• Don't "go postal" as it generally ends in the suicide of the perpetrator

We hope that this post has been informative and that it will help our supporters to avoid the fate that awaited Nicholas.