I joked with my better half that I bet she was another child of the 60's, like myself .. Who took her 'street defense classes for women'
I remember being taught how to not be victim and to use whatever was at hand, to defend yourself...........
The scissors she used were tiny! But effective
I once used a hot iron to 'equalize' things when a foolish man tried to enter my apartment ........
This was when my husband-to-be was just a neighbor who lived next door ......
He came out of his apartment when he heard the screams .... Mine telling the guy I was going to ........ ummmm. inflict serious harm to his manhood .... And the guy screaming for help ..........
Husband-to-be looked at me and asked if I had things under control
Told him I did ..........
Then he said I should let the guy go .........
Turned out the guy had a key to his girlfriends' apartment ... One unit behind mine ....... Opps...
He kept saying he thought it was his girlfriends' place ..... Irish wench that I am screamed back ......"And does she greet you by threatening to kill you?"
Husband-to-be proved his gallentry by going out and getting me a new lock and installing it....... And I explained to hte manager that unless he could guarennty that no other unit in the complex had the same key as mine, I wasn't going to take out the new lock ...........
Husband-to-be later said that he knew I was the woman for him, that night .......
Considering our courtship was somewhat different ............One dark and rainy night, when he first got a chance to get into my bedroom ... Via a ladder ..... So he could unlock my door from inside......When I thought I'd lost my keys.......
Nothing like he'd fantazied, I'm sure ........ And him dripping wet while I sat dry and warm in his apartment going through my purse..... Only to discover I hadn't lost my keys ......
He seemed to not find it too strange when he asked if I had a spare key and I said 'Yes' .... Frozen in a tub of ice in the freezer ......... The last place a burgler would look; right?
Duh...........
I waited to tell him this for a spell........ Didn't want him to think I was some sort of absent minded, wild tempered weirdo........ LOL better he should find out after he was in love with me
'Suppose we're a good fit though ..... After almost 25 years we're still together .........