“Sure, I’d love to”
-You are the only good looking guy i know
It was about 6 months ago
When I received a call notifying me that I’d been hired for a job I had my heart set on but wondered if I’d be fully considered, given the extensive number of applicants.
I’m not pregnant…..
I was bullied as a kid, and grew up fighting competitively as a result, so I have a ton of fight stories, and telling them usually gets me animated.
I asked a guy why people seemed to think I was going to hurt them all the time just because I get in a ring on the weekends.
He told me most people are afraid of fighting, and my stories trigger their fight or flight and they end up scared as a result because they dont want to rudely walk away from an animated fighter telling a story.
I dialed back how many stories I was telling and how often, and kept them for private conversations. I made more friends as a result.
Sadly, that same kid got into a disagreement in a bar that ended with him getting ambushed and stabbed to death in front of his wife and sister by a coward with hurt feelings. The coward got 4 years because my friend was “in a group” of noncombatant women..
I only wish I was there telling my stories to him that night..