I'm just aware of what type of crazy I can become when threatened, even if I don't actually have the strength or the frame to pull it off effectively.

Yeah, I fear this also with Tom. I don't fear Tom, but I am pretty sure he's got this going on, and has done a lot a lot of repression to subdue it.

I fought in school a few times. Takes a lot for my temper to get up into that "seeing red" range. The few times it has, well, like Pete, I never surrendered.

I think I'm the combo of one of the guys/beautiful (as uncomfortable as it makes me to use that particular term, and as much as I feel I need to explain/disclaim the use of it here as particular to the type I get pinned as) freak, depending.

Huh. If I were to guess your type, I'd see you as the Precocious Little Girl.

I'm just aware of what type of crazy I can become when threatened, even if I don't actually have the strength or the frame to pull it off effectively.

Yeah, I fear this also with Tom. I don't fear Tom, but I am pretty sure he's got this going on, and has done a lot a lot of repression to subdue it.

I'm sensing a theme.

looks at Brits askance

In school I almost never lost my temper or cried. There were too many people trying to get that reaction out of me, and I wouldn't give them the satisfaction.

It used to be too easy to get me to do that.

looks at Brits askance

I inherited mine from my ancestors who were Scottish & Dutch mercenaries.

No, I'm not joking.

I cried now and again in school, as well as lost my temper. Never been in a fight, though. (Not out of school either.)

::makes note to Pete's gift idea list: wooden shoes, kilt, machine gun::

But if they were mercenaries, they would just fight because they were being paid to, not because they were mad.

(joking)