I'm really bad at it, but I think one trick is to let other people have their stuff. Like your mother not talking to you much this morning probably had more to do with her frame of mind after fighting with her BF than it had to do with wanting to avoid *you* specifically. It's her stuff, not yours.

I'm not sure how you get to the point where that kind of thing is less annoying, though.

I'll be watching this thread because I feel irritated with the entire world at the moment and wish I didn't.