Normally, I am calm, cool and in control of myself. I work for myself and by myself. I am in a service oriented business and therefore whatever I say or do will impact my income and the relationships that I have with my clients.
However, I did lose my cool ONCE! That was with an elder. This man has a very strong personality, is always right and supposedly has control of his wife, son and daughter.
His son and my younger son are the same age. His son at the time was always acting out, a bully of sorts. So, back about when our kids were like 11 or 12 they were playing a pick up game of tag football at my mother's wedding get together. It was held at one of the friends' home with a large spacious yard. Well it seems as theought his elders's osn had been picking on my son, who was shy and introverted. I learned of this later that night at home and just waited for my opportunity.
About a week later at the hall this elders' son was acting up, playing grab ass in the coat room at the hall and I put the kid in his place. I also told this snot that I didn't appreciate the way that he had been abusing my son.
So, the very next meeting, the elder took me aside and brought up this little encounter I had had with JUNIOR... He explained that he was aware of his son's ways and that he was working with him on it. .I very BOLDLY and in a bit of a sarcastic way told him that "Well, whatever it is that you are doing, evidently isn't working, and that the way I saw IT that perhaps someone else needed to take care of the matter."
You know what he said? NOT A WORD. he just said thank you and that was the last I ever heard of the matter.No JC, nothing.
NMG