I try to use avoidance when I am in annoyed or angry or other bad type moods. I'll sit and hide behind a computer game and take the frustrations out on it a little bit, generally works, but not always, because then boredom can come and settle in making the annoyances even more annoying. Sometime it just does not matter what I try, and I have to let the cause of my annoyance be known. That generally works and solves the issue for me, I just don't like jumping to the solution first, because it almost always works.
Avoidance is a good strategy, until it is the only strategy. I feel some people only have that tool in their shed these days, to cover every issue they have. It is their hammer, and everything a nail. Of course, when it doesn't work, then the explosion comes too :)
I know the simplest thing to do is to go to the source of the annoyance when possible, but for some reason I still try to avoid it like the plague even though it solves the annoyance most of the time. I think we all sort of like to torture ourselves every now and then.
Perhaps we are all masochists at heart - martyrs to whatever delusional feeling we have at the time.