Orthonym
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Preacherman, Armoredman, and yes
you too, TBO are all correct. (much as I hate to admit it) There really are nasty folks out there who'd just as soon murder (rape, rob, sodomize, etc) you as look at you .
I think I met one once. One of the scariest experiences I've ever had, and I've had some moderately bad car and motorcycle wrecks. He didn't lift a finger against me, nor even raise his voice, but even now, ~15 years later, I can't think of the episode without a shudder.
I was standing around at a gas station in Atlanta, waiting for the tank to fill and drinking a Coke from their machine, when I struck up a conversation with this other guy who was also standing around. He was taller and skinnier than I, with the tow-headed, sallow-faced, washed-out-looking-blue-eyes appearance that Scarlett O'Hara thought was the mark of Scotch-Irish white trash. Well, I didn't think of that till later. (Yeah, I'm one, too, but I'm also an Eagle Scout)
We talked about the weather, or something, for a bit, and then this guy's attention went to a male-and-female couple walking along the sidewalk on the other side of the street. All at once, nothing first, not knowing me from Adam, this organism started telling me in a very calm voice how he'd like to cross the street, beat the poo out of both strollers, rape the female (and maybe the male too, I was already freaking at this point) and then horribly murder both of them. About then I went into CYA mode, humoring him while thinking how to get away unremembered.
I'll NEVER, as long as I live, forget the look in this guy's eyes (nobody home ) nor the little "teardrop" tattoos under his eye. (Found out about that later)
The moral of this story? Humans are dangerous. Male humans are not necessarily more dangerous than female humans, but the dangerous males are REALLY dangerous, in violent ways. (Girls tend to cheat. Snork!)
Arm yo'self, young lady!
you too, TBO are all correct. (much as I hate to admit it) There really are nasty folks out there who'd just as soon murder (rape, rob, sodomize, etc) you as look at you .
I think I met one once. One of the scariest experiences I've ever had, and I've had some moderately bad car and motorcycle wrecks. He didn't lift a finger against me, nor even raise his voice, but even now, ~15 years later, I can't think of the episode without a shudder.
I was standing around at a gas station in Atlanta, waiting for the tank to fill and drinking a Coke from their machine, when I struck up a conversation with this other guy who was also standing around. He was taller and skinnier than I, with the tow-headed, sallow-faced, washed-out-looking-blue-eyes appearance that Scarlett O'Hara thought was the mark of Scotch-Irish white trash. Well, I didn't think of that till later. (Yeah, I'm one, too, but I'm also an Eagle Scout)
We talked about the weather, or something, for a bit, and then this guy's attention went to a male-and-female couple walking along the sidewalk on the other side of the street. All at once, nothing first, not knowing me from Adam, this organism started telling me in a very calm voice how he'd like to cross the street, beat the poo out of both strollers, rape the female (and maybe the male too, I was already freaking at this point) and then horribly murder both of them. About then I went into CYA mode, humoring him while thinking how to get away unremembered.
I'll NEVER, as long as I live, forget the look in this guy's eyes (nobody home ) nor the little "teardrop" tattoos under his eye. (Found out about that later)
The moral of this story? Humans are dangerous. Male humans are not necessarily more dangerous than female humans, but the dangerous males are REALLY dangerous, in violent ways. (Girls tend to cheat. Snork!)
Arm yo'self, young lady!