12/27/24 Drabble: Stress Relief

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John had been feeling tremendous amounts of stress these days. He was irritable all the time and snapping at people without warning. He needed to find a way to blow off some steam, so that's exactly what he did. John had a pressure relief valve installed in the back of his neck. Now, whenever he was feeling stressed out, he just turned the valve and released the steam that had been building inside of him. It worked for a while, until his wife made a joke that he was always full of hot air. That's when John blew a gasket.

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