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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
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
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!
Could it be you intuitively get what was happening with him? What scares me about angry people is the loss of control I feel from not knowing what’s happening in their mind and how to make it stop. Uncertainty is scary, objectively I know violent things rarely happen.
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