every survivalist has had this experience. Just a a couple of weeks ago I was confronted by a pack of coyotes. I stood up, holding my sleeping bag up, trying to look really big, barked at them and they left me alone. I know that this is what you are supposed to do with cougars, but it worked with the coyotes too.

I had a that decision once, got my draft notice in 1968, talk mulling over a fight or flight reflex.

Should have taken your beers.

Proof you are alive

As a kid/young teenager I lived in an area where the police used to like to run stop searches on young people... I experienced several instances of surly coppers accusing me of possessing knives, drugs etc. as an excuse to get me to turn my pockets out. One day I was in a car with my friend (he was the first of us to get a license) when a police car dropped in behind us and strobed it's lights at us. The moment my friend stopped the car I jumped out and ran, there was no reason for it, we had absolutely nothing to hide but I ran. I couldn't even say it was normal fear, I just had the urge to get away! Anyway the police chased me and I ended up tackled and cuffed in the back of the car, after a search and brief interrogation they let me go.

lol pretty much every day to some level...yay anxiety!

of course

I was a bouncer as a young man, and grew up in a violent environment, but never actually experienced it back then. Interestingly though, I did experience it right after my 17 year old step daughter died. As I sat in my back yard to get a break from the chaos in my house. I realized I just wanted to run anywhere immediately. Upon realizing this was unrealistic, I had a great need to punch something. I came really close to punching a nearby tree. Thankfully, I realized this would also not result in an optimal outcome. So I just sat frozen. This event also closed the door on me ever accepting the traditional Christian view of a benevolent creator. I turned to a form of spiritual humanism. Turning athiest at that moment would have been bad for me and society. I was way to angry at an unspecified source.

Everytime my wife would ask to go shopping