blowing a gasket

Fictional weddings, funerals, Thanksgivings and Christmases have long had a habit of going off the rails; in recent years the battlefield has moved away from those family-centric occasions to gatherings of various types — work meetings, recovery groups, political assemblies — that tend to end with people blowing a gasket and telling each other what’s what.

But his life depends on his caregivers showing up for work, on his iron lung not blowing a gasket, on the electricity staying on.

But his life depends on his caregivers showing up for work, on his iron lung not blowing a gasket, on the electricity staying on.

As for blowing a gasket, I’m prone to temper tantrums for a variety of relatively un-important reasons, including this social media platform we are on.

He’s out of jail and traveling, so I guess a part of me still worries about him blowing a gasket and hurting my family.