ELB wrote: As a a firefighter/first responder, I regularly find myself knocking on someone's front door in the middle of the night (sometime day, but people call for help more at night, it seems). I always stand to one side or the other. One of my fellow responders, standing directly in front of the door, asked me why I did that. When I told him the look on his face was priceless. I would call it "sudden enlightenment."
How long did it take for the implications to sink in?
Sounds like when I was young and chasing a rattlesnake across the buffalo grass in Wyoming. A feller from Louisiana asked me why I stopped when the snake hit that big patch of sagebrush.
My answer was: "Because I ain't stupid."
My answer to the stupid look on his face was: "Out here I have the advantage. In there the snake has the advantage."
It still took him at least two minutes to process that.
