Academic/General Training Module by Adam Smith First Published in 2015

 
Describing something that made you angry 
Describe a situation that made you angry. You should say 
 
when it happened  
 
what happened 
 
how you felt 
A recent situation that made me angry was getting stuck in a traffic jam on the 
way to meet some friends. It was last Sunday lunchtime, and I didn’t expect 
there to be much traffic; people don’t work on Sundays, so the roads aren’t 
usually very busy. 

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Everything was going well until suddenly I saw a queue of cars on the road in 
front of me. I had no choice but to join the queue and wait to get past 
whatever was causing the delay. It turned out that it was caused by some 
roadworks, and it took me an extra 30 minutes to get past them. 
Getting stuck in traffic congestion doesn’t usually make me angry, but this time 
it did, mainly because I wasn’t expecting it and I knew that my friends were 
waiting to meet me for lunch. I felt frustrated and powerless because there 
was nothing I could do to change the situation, and I had no idea how long I 
would be sitting there waiting. When I finally saw the reason for the 
congestion, I was relieved that I was close to getting past the roadworks, but I 
still felt a bit stressed knowing that I was half an hour late.