Never. I'm not competitive at all. :cautious::shifty::hilarious:
I f*cked up fairly recently. Mentioned something to a vet I know that if I'd thought before I spoke (dammit! Agaaaaaain) I'd have realized was going to knee him in the balls. And, as we all know, only do that right before you're gonna kill the bloke. Otherwise they're gonna be an insufferable ass at best, or all self blame and hurting at worst. Dammit, I am not apologizing or feeling bad for something good in my life. Suck it up buttercup. <roll eyes> Not that that ever goes badly, too. Gah. Just hate myself sometimes. Can I get both feet in my mouth? Upside; It wasn't a victory. Same ballpark of "Oh, you're gonna beat yourself up, instead of be happy for me?":banghead:, though.But I'm not dating them, so I haven't had the opportunity to instruct how thou shalt.
I almost never train men. I don't believe in it as a general rule, and beyond that I'm lazy.
This is one area that I have to be in a damn good mood to pull off, and it only works on a certain breed of man. (I also have to be dating them ;)). Caveats aside... Essentially I whap them on the nose and give them "A block of instruction on how to be happy that your girl, is kicking ass." And then I literally tick off on my fingers what I want them to do. (There will be fierce smiles. There will be crushing hugs and speeches of "I told you so & damn fine work & that's my girl". There will be revelry; ideally naked & in the dark. There will be chest thumping, chick spinning, pride oozing out of every single damn pore. There may, on occasion, be bragging allowed. I wanna see some enthusiasm, and a sense of purpose, because your team just drove one home.) And then I repeat that little block of instruction, as needed at every victory that they are totally falling down on, until I'm swooped up immediately as per protocol, or I can count on their lack of enthusiasm to mean someone has just died.
I get pretty damn intense about it. I don't care if no one else knows, or everyone. The only person I care about being happy for me? Is them. And I will grab a nose and tweak it back into joint if it's gone and fallen out of it. It's pretty uncharacteristic of me in general, but I take teamwork seriously. My team needs to have my back. If they need to be reminded they're my team? So be it. Not the first time I've broken shit down barney style. Just because I rarely do it, training, doesn't mean I don't know how. Lol. At least with certain breeds of men. I'm sure the same thing would go very badly with other examples of the species.
As far as whether that's a man thing, a vet thing, a sometime asshole thing, or a PTSD thing? IDK. Usually got all 3.5 rolled up in 1. :coffee:
