Tuesday, August 19, 2008
How do you react to stress?
Yesterday evening as I was riding home, I got to an intersection about 1.5 miles from my house. The intersection was busy, and I had a red wait so I waited on the corner. Another rider came up and when the light turned, I let him go ahead of me. I continued on my bike and just happened to look at my left when I was in the middle of the intersection. A red Dodge Charger was bearing down on me. She noticed me as soon as I noticed her, and she stopped between 5-10 feet of my new road-bike. She cried out, “sorry,” and although I really wanted to say something like, “no problem,” to comfort her from nearly mowing me over on Glebe St., I couldn’t. The only thing that came out of my mouth was a clearly fustrated, loud, “aaahh!” I couldn’t get anything else out except for that. Yes, apparently I’m super eloquent under stress. Oh, and Mom, don't worry-I keep my guard up all the time on my bike.
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"Ahhhh" is better than cursing, which is what I might have done without thinking about. I do think I'm getting better at that, but sometimes I do yell in frustration (like I was yelling at my computer the other night).
A normal response for me would've been to swear. But, I had no vocabulary. None at moment except for Aagh.
holy crap that's freaky. in high stress situations like that i usually go speechless too
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