A man came to work one day with a bad limp. One of his coworkers noticed and asked him what had happened.

The man answered, “Oh, nothing. It’s just an old hockey injury that acts up every once in a while.”

The coworker was surprised at his answer. “I never knew you played hockey,” he said.

The man explained, “Oh, I didn’t play hockey; I hurt it last year during the Stanley Cup play‑offs. When I lost five hundred dollars on the final game, I put my foot through the TV set!” (1)

When we’re angry we do some pretty dumb things, don’t we?

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