One amusing way I've found to diffuse a little bit of the useless anger, a la > yelling profanities at the guy who cut us off in traffic A friend of mine says

One amusing way I've found to diffuse a little bit of the useless anger, a la > yelling profanities at the guy who cut us off in traffic A friend of mine says he just pulls an index finger and mutters under his breath "red turtle," but even then he felt a little bad for envisioning knocking the car off the road, so I invented the purple turtle. The purple turtle does not blow the offender up. It does not knock the car off the road. It merely teleports car and driver safely to a drive-in movie theater playing the relevant section of driver's education, and they have to sit there in timeout until they understand why what they just did was dangerous and/or stupid. It even has a sound effect. So now I just make the sound effect, as loudly as I can when I'm by myself, because it's a silly noise and hard to make loudly without laughing, and it helps relieve the tension!