Things that will drive your emotions wild

• The person behind you in the supermarket runs his/her cart into the back of your ankle.

• The elevator stops on every floor and nobody gets on.

• There’s always a car riding your tail when you’re slowing down to find an address.

• You open a can of soup and the lid falls in.

• It’s bad enough that you step in dog poop, but you don’t realize it till you walk across your living room rug.

• The tiny red string on the Band-Aid wrapper never works for you.

• There’s a dog in the neighborhood that barks at EVERYTHING.

• You can never put anything back in a box the way it came.

• You drink from a soda can into which someone has extinguished a cigarette.

• You slice your tongue licking an envelope.

• Your tire gauge lets out half the air while you’re trying to get a reading.

• A station comes in brilliantly when you’re standing near the radio but buzzes, drifts and spits every time you move away.

• You wash a garment with a tissue in the pocket and your entire laundry comes out covered with lint.

• The car behind you blasts its horn because you let a pedestrian finish crossing.

• A piece of foil candy wrapper makes electrical contact with your filling.

• You set the alarm on your digital clock for 7 p.m. instead of 7 a.m.

• The radio station doesn’t tell you who sang that song.

• People behind you in a supermarket line dash ahead of you to a counter just opening up.

• You reach under the table to pick something off the floor and smash your head on the way up.

• You rub on hand cream and can’t turn the bathroom door knob to get out.

• You can’t look up the correct spelling of a word in the dictionary because you don’t know how to spell it.