Hot Help: Anger Mismanagement

The inhabitants of Liberty City are pretty high strung, which might have something to do with their cars getting commandeered left and right. To keep things light though, Niko Belic likes to prank the citizens at every chance. You too can follow this trick for pranking all the self-centred citizens in Grand Theft Auto: 4!

Step One: Setup

After arranging to meet your cousin, Roman, pull up close to where he is in your car. Wait for a busy-looking pedestrian to pass in front of Roman before sounding your horn. The alarmed pedestrian will, in a state of egocentric rage, cuss out Niko for disturbing his day!

Step Two: Execution
You know that you were honking to get Roman's attention! Roman will know this too and get in the car, but the persnickety pedestrian will not know your intent and continue to chew you out for being rude! Quickly drive off happily with your loving cousin for an afternoon of fun.

"Cousin! We are prank pulling like true Americans!"

Step Three: Payoff
While Niko and his cousin Roman go off together, they leave behind a Liberty Citizen in mid-rant. With the object of their anger speeding away, the pedestrian's wroth words will slowly fall away into dawning embarrassment at their gut-reactions. They'll have been yelling like a crazy-person at you for no reason whatsoever!

With any luck their day will be ruined, as they can't shake the fact that it is their default mood to be so angry. They may not be able to immediately integrate that information, which will throw them into bouts of more misplaced anger and self-loathing. Just what kind of person goes from zero to blowing up at strangers at the drop of a hat or the sound of a horn anyway? The person may also be upset that they assumed the honk was at them--I mean, it's not like everything in the world revolves around them--they're nobody!

You have successfully revealed an ugly aspect of this person's personality and they will wordlessly contemplate the insignificance of their existence, dwelling on their inability of fully understand the world they thought they knew. Though they may not be able to articulate this emotion to those they are close to, they will carry it with them forever. Eventually, they may forget about it and keep having a short-temper for these things, but in their quiet moments on the bus or while falling asleep at night they will remember who they really are. And a hot flush will creep up the back of their neck and their stomach will drop as they struggle to expunge their silent shame, or at least to quiet their mind and forget again. What fun!!