He was gone for about 30 minutes and then he came back to complain about his HVAC thermostat.
My dad had really bad anger issues when I was growing up. All throughout my childhood, if something went wrong he would just lose it! He was always pretty intimidating because of this, even though he never harmed his family. I thought that as he grew older that he would mellow out, and for a while I thought I was right because when I was an adult and I came to visit, he was friendly and accommodating and nothing bad happened. Unfortunately, this weekend proved to me that, no, he definitely still has his anger issues. My mother invited me over for an early Christmas dinner, since my parents were going to visit my siblings who live in another state on Christmas day, and they didn’t want me to feel left out. I happily agreed, and my mom made her famous honey baked ham. Everything was going great until my father was slowly becoming more irritated. I wasn’t really sure why, since the atmosphere and everything from what I could tell, was going great. My father abruptly then got up and went to the other room. He was gone for about 30 minutes and then he came back to complain about his HVAC thermostat. How he was always having issues with it, and how he just turned the cooling unit on, and the A/C thermostat better work this time. He went to check on it again, and that’s when I heard screaming and then the sound of something shattering. My mother and I rushed out to see my father with a hammer in his hand, and the heating and cooling thermostat smashed into smithereens all over the floor. Obviously my father has not mellowed out over the years.