“Do I aggravate family problems with temper tantrums and uncontrolled words and actions? I will remind myself to Think.” (ODAT, 21 October)
Once I thought for so long before answering that the person put the phone down on me because they thought I had gone.
I chalk this up as a great success.
‘How do I respond to …?’
Probably by doing absolutely nothing at all and having a good, long, hard think about the benefit of doing absolutely nothing at all.
Almost nothing does actually command a response from me.