WOW! You're more courageous than I am! I don't think I could bring myself to do the things you did. I'd be scared to death just walking down the sidewalk.

I can blend in with the hood rats if I need to. The longer that I have lived here in Middle River, the more 'hood-like' I have become. There's been a few times when I had to go off on people for messing with my car, starting crap with me, messing with my kids, and other things. I've done and said things to people that made my kids tell me that I'm going to get myself shot. I'm the type that will smack a bull elephant in the face and look at him like, 'and what 'cha gonna do about it?" Then later, I realize I could have gotten myself killed. I can fit right in if I need to. However, I would not even have the guts to try to fit in on the block though. Nope, not going there!

But I am getting tired of having to be like that. It's not me. I am tired of having to be 'hard'. I'm tired of having to be 'aware of my surroundings'.

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