Emotion -- Frustration

I have this recurring dream of having to be somewhere, but my feet won't work.  I try to run, but I can barely get one foot in front of the other.  It's like I'm in quicksand.  And then, even worse, I get side-tracked by all sorts of things.  And I just can't get done what I need to get done, can't get where I'm going.


My friend was setting up a home theater surround sound and a new Blu-Ray player.  And every time one thing would work, something else would somehow not work.  The store gave her the wrong remote, and for a long time, we kept trying to get it to work with the television.


I recently got a flat tire, and I of course thought, this isn't a big problem. I've got a spare, I've got a jack, this is one of the easy things to take care of.  Yeah, until I couldn't get the lug nuts off the flat, because they were so tight.


Write a short piece of an incredibly frustrating situation.  How does your character deal with it?  Is it just the circumstance, like a lug nut that won't turn, or is there someone causing the problems?  What does your character do, how do they handle it, do they have a freak out or do they remain calm?  Does the situation resolve itself?  How?  Go into great detail about the emotions felt through the process.


Ideas: make it humorous.  Frustration can lend itself to farce.  Or bring your character to the brink of tears or a tantrum.  Do they end up destroying exactly what they were trying to fix?  Glass Menagerie?  Does it really matter anyway, or is it something very small but somehow really matters to your character?  What's insight to your character does the situation present?