She's perfectly well and she hasn't a pain. It's lovely rice pudding for supper again. A.A. Milne The rice pudding is just the last straw, the trigger in a life so filled with stress that she lashes out viciously by dumping her pudding all over the floor. Mary Jane is showing signs of stress. Our Millennial bio progresses from irritation to stress, to anger, to rage, to violence, in order of intensity.
Stress is the new preferred excuse for failures.
Some dined out on their unhappy childhooods well into their seventies. Now it's stress. Stress is credited as the source of every ailment. Stress is the consequence of too many people and too little space. We can look forward to this.