hot potato II

Enduring one of those essentially sleepless nights, I thought I'd try to find what's worse than a "hot potato." A Google search generated a definition for this idiom: a situation likely to cause trouble to the person handling it. This is, of course, quite different than a "hot ticket": a popular item, a product that people want. While we KNOW I'm not operating at the hot ticket end of the spectrum with the hot dogs(sigh), am I missing the mark at the hot potato end? Candidates are (in no particular order): horse's ass, hothead, hotshot. I self-tease about being a menace, but maybe I really am more scary to people than seems plausible from the vantage point of my own insecurities?