Acting out on your frustration in MD

[Faye]

Yesterday, I had a baffling encounter, it was supposed to be part job interview/ part information interview except the woman sitting across the boardroom table from me was either deeply inept or very stoned (or both?). It shocked me to the core because I am a lot more qualified than she is and yet not only was she patronizing, but she was literally making annoying childish whining sounds as I tried to ask her basic questions about the company. 

I felt like I was being deliberately conned and purposefully undervalued, I guess everyone has an encounter like this once in a while but it seriously annoyed me. So on my way back home in peak time traffic the frustration of the whole thing literally kept spinning in my head. And I found myself re-enacting/ impersonating her character traits, so I was MDing in the car and mimicking the annoyingly whining reluctant groan that my interviewer had made constantly during our meeting. Until the point I started cracking myself up because I thought it amusing that people like that still get to keep their jobs and get paid for being so incompetent. 

As I was doing this I caught a glimpse of the driver in the next lane and was staring at me like, with that "this woman is a lunatic" look on her face....it was embarrassing but honestly I don't think I care...it helps to vent and if MD is my outlet than I am reluctant to suppress it.

Does anyone feel the same way?

[Diane]

I do think it helps me vent, but then I also find myself feeling guilty as well! Like I always wonder, "why can't I deal with situations like a 'normal' person", or something like that! I feel like if anything doesn't go according to plan, I MD because in my "fantasy" world, everything goes according to plan, you know?