And I just... wasn’t? I leaned back and relaxed into my seat. My body language became *more* comfortable. I closed my eyes and listened to my music as the guy shouted at the other passengers
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A strange thing happened to me the other night. I was on the subway (BART), and a man sat next to me who was Not Okay. If you’ve lived in a big city, you know the type: eyes huge, shouting, flailing. Many of the people in the car were staring us — I think they were scared for me
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When the train slowed to my stop, I turned to him, and I said quietly, “Hi. I have to leave now. Is that okay?” His eyes were bulging and he looked furious, but he quickly stood and moved out of my way. The people around looked mortified
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And, like... I don’t know how I knew what to say, or why I wasn’t worried?
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A lot of people have told me that I’m good with people, that I read people well, that I have a “high EQ.” I’ve been trying to figure out what that is, and this feels like kind of an important piece, since this was a relatively novel situation for me & I still knew what to do
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And maybe he would’ve let me out without incident regardless of what I’d said. Or maybe I *should* have been much more terrified, and the fact that nothing bad happened was luck of the draw. I don’t know!
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BART @ night != good
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"!= good" != "= !good"
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I suspect it felt like instinct? Not meticulously planned? I am good at talking drunks down from destructive rage ledges. I was in your town, or at least the BARTown, recently for the first time and I definitely detected a low frequency menace in even the best neighbourhoods.
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In a novel, this story would indicate that you have *Powers* that you are just now learning to control
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