Phone cold-call sales are bad enough, but when I pick up the phone and the person asks for 'Mr. XXX', mispronouncing my last name, assuming the man of the house makes the decisions (and I'm not married so there is no Mr. XXX), oh boy my blood boils instantly.

It does not matter that my phone is on the 'Do Not Call Register', I am already mad by that point. So I get the name of the company, and remind the person that they are using my time and my telephony equipment for their advertising so if they call again they will be charged a fee. I then proceed to attempt to get the legal address of the firm for this purpose and the name of the caller to add to my list, and by that time they are hanging up on me. Good.

On the bike I can only say that idiots make me mad. Unsafe ones with children. I was riding out of a favorite MTB trail that unfortunately attracts weekend family outings in the first mile or so, when I came upon a family of idiots. Don't know what else to call them. Woman and man and 3 kids, around 6 through 10 years old. Two bikes, both small kids 'dirt jump' type bikes, with pegs. The two idiot adults on the bikes, the two younger kids sitting on the handlebars, weaving all over the trail because the bikes are way too small for the adults to ride safely. The kids jumping on and off as they negotiate the short steep hills. NO helmets on anyone. One kid hanging off the rear pegs. I yell 'on the left' but they have no control over the bikes, and are weaving all over, spilling kids off the bars as they go, who run back and jump back on. I slow down as I see this and yell 'on the left' again. The woman cuts to the left and forces me off the bike and the kid of the bars. Am I mad? You have one guess. I can tolerate a lot on the bike; I see a lot of dufus stuff but being stupid and unsafe with kids just gets me right off. I have to dismount- they are all over the trail which is wide enough for a truck to go through. Finally I get back on the bike and force myself around the woman who actually looks surprised as she has to stop and the kid on the bars has to jump off yet again. Good grief.