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P.S. He was reading over my shoulder while I typed the above post. Hee, hee.
Seriously, now that he's no longer looking over my shoulder, in truth I'd probably help out if I thought I could help him. Hard to say exactly without ever having been in the actual situation. Sometimes I surprise myself.
I'm usually a girly girl type who doesn't like to get my hands dirty. But there is another side that surfaces once in awhile.
I'd dial 911 if there were weapons involved, otherwise, I'd just let the best man win. Of course it would be my guy because he's the biggest bad ass out there. There aren't thugs tough enough to take him down.
It seems you live a charmed life - congratulations! I hope nothing ever DOES happen to you and yours.
Unfortunately, the real world is seldom what we expect it to be...
I don't think I live a charmed life. It's just his personality type. He's quiet, keeps to himself, doesn't socialize a whole lot and we live in a quiet, smallish town. He's the type to walk away from confrontation.
If he's out with his buddies after a hockey game, I'm sure he could get into trouble, they are a rowdy bunch.
I'm not saying it never could happen, we just don't find situations when he and I are out where something like that could happen.
I don't think I live a charmed life. It's just his personality type. He's quiet, keeps to himself, doesn't socialize a whole lot and we live in a quiet, smallish town. He's the type to walk away from confrontation.
That certainly helps. You've reduced the odds, but just realize that in this crazy world anything can happen anywhere. When you see one of those horrible crimes being reported upon on the six-o'clock news, what is the first thing the neighbors always say? "Oh, ol' Bill? He was a sweetheart - never had no problems with him. We're a G*d-fearin', quiet-like kinda' town here..."
...or am I just paranoid? Probably...but I could tell you stories...
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If he's out with his buddies after a hockey game, I'm sure he could get into trouble, they are a rowdy bunch.
LOL - and baseball games, and football games, and soccer games...seems that's often the main attraction!
That certainly helps. You've reduced the odds, but just realize that in this crazy world anything can happen anywhere. When you see one of those horrible crimes being reported upon on the six-o'clock news, what is the first thing the neighbors always say? "Oh, ol' Bill? He was a sweetheart - never had no problems with him. We're a G*d-fearin', quiet-like kinda' town here..."
...or am I just paranoid? Probably...but I could tell you stories...
LOL - and baseball games, and football games, and soccer games...seems that's often the main attraction!
Oh don't I know it! He is well traveled, been to a lot of not-so-nice areas in other countries and I worry a lot.
And you are very right...the nastiest things usually happen in small towns. I just pray to God it never happens to us/him. But I'd jump in and help once he does not have the advantage.
Yeah, the hockey games...after he's played his still in his tough, manly state of being...lol. I go to some of his games and stayed for their after-party once. WOW...lol, I never knew that side of him!
People in movies are stupid. Don't worry about the way they were written. My daughter and her friend love horror movies, and we were talking about how dumb characters are.
- Hey, what's that creepy noise coming from the attic? I should go check it out. Hmmm, the light's not working. Oh well!
- Whew, I clobbered the bad guy. He looks unconscious. I'll just leave my weapon over here and go into the other room.
- Oh no, my friend is being attacked! I'll just cringe over here by this lamp, bat, electric guitar, set of knives and pile of 2x4s and whimper in fear.
Nobody knows what he or she will do in a moment of intense crisis. (Like that thread the other day about whether we would kill our loved ones before we kill ourselves. Nobody can really know that.) Some of us will freeze. Some of us will fight back. We can say what we'd think we'd do, but we don't really know. People who practice martial arts and self defense go through the same moves again and again so that they can react reflexively to a situation. Still, real-life sparring competitions are not like the beautifully choreographed fights in movies.
Yeah, the hockey games...after he's played his still in his tough, manly state of being...lol. I go to some of his games and stayed for their after-party once. WOW...lol, I never knew that side of him!
Heh, heh - it's hard to turn off that testosterone tap after it's been left fully-open for so long!
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Probably...but I could tell you stories... 
