Are you stressed?

 

 

Are you stressed? Are you the kind of person who is often easily wound-up and upset? You watch something on TV, the News perhaps, and you are angry at what you see. You wish you were in control; things would certainly be different then.

Psychologists say there are two types of people - A group and B group.

"A" people are often very stressed and wish to be in control of situations including those out of their control. They get angry even. And this anger is bad for our health.

These people get stressed at the slightest thing, because they believe they are right and therefore everyone else is wrong. For example, they believe the toilet roll in the bathroom should be hung one way - their way. Any other way and it is wrong. They go to the point that when visiting people in their homes they change the toilet roll to their way of hanging it.

I know someone who does that every time she visits us. But I fixed her!

I have wired the toilet roll to an alarm bell. If she attempts to change the way the roll is, an alarm sounds throughout the street and she is locked in the bathroom. The Fire Brigade came to get her out through the window just the once. She never changed the roll any more. Mind you, she never visited us since !!!

"B" people are relaxed throughout life no matter what happens. Totally laid back. Nothing bothers them. If they fainted they would need help to get them to the ground.

I tend to lean towards "B". So much so that I fall over ... with some help.

I never get upset at long slow-moving queues, (lines), at the bank or at the supermarket checkouts. In fact I choose them in preference to short ones. I find standing in a queue relaxing as I watch what people have bought in their trolleys and wonder what kind of people they are. The other day I noticed a woman had in her trolley no fewer than six packets of condoms; all of various types and quality/flavour (???) 

It's the same when travelling. I always stand in the longest and slowest queue leading to the boarding gate. And for extra relaxation, when I reach the boarding gate and it is my turn to enter, I leave the queue and stand right at the back again. You should see the faces of all the "A" type people standing there. I have also missed many a train, bus and plane this way. But I was so relaxed I did not need a holiday.

So there you are. Be relaxed as a "B". Not as stressed as an "A".

How about you? Are you an "A" or a "B" person?

Which way do you hang your toilet paper?