superbatranger said:
Most scared I've been was when I was mugged a few months ago. As soon as I saw that knife, I thought I was going to die.
What happened? Time/circumstances/how/? I'm interested (because, well, it happened to a friend of mine, and to me when I was a teen twice)
Half a year ago I was cycling passed some punks terrorizing the streets (throwing cans at people, stealing stuff from people, spitting at them), so I stopped and told them they had most likely long passed the age in which their acts would be considered innocent and/or funny, and that I had noticed people really being scared of them.
Then they had taken an interest in beating me up, and it was only then I realized how many there were. (About 15 punks, age 17 to 25)
But interestingly, I was not responding emotionally at all, more calculative. I determined my odds had turned badly around the time I stopped to speak up, and I was more worried whether or not I would make it home (my girlfriend was going abroad for a long time, to study, and that evening we had our last evening together). Then I got hammered from behind by a few of them (they had been circling around me), and I said 'well, I suppose I will be going now' and got on my bike again.
So the most scary thing probably was when on my first day at work, my brother send me a message about how he got into some kind of trouble with some ex-convicts, and that they were going to wait for him after work, and kill him (something about knifes and bats). I then explained I had to leave, and had to hope public transportation would not fail me, and that I would make it in time. A friend of mine got gunned down two years earlier, because HIS brother got into trouble over a girl with the wrong kind of people (he survived, amazingly enough), so I was extra worried (it was the same neighborhood as where my brother lived/worked)
Also, my first girlfriend killed her own children, so I'm glad I didn't listen to my mom a few years back, when she told me I should take her back.