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Giles, I can begin to guess at how much things like this would hurt- but I would tend to agree with your wife that you might have scared her. I for one am petrified of drunk people- esp. if I see them staggering down the street I think they are going to grab me or do something weird. My Mom has told me not to be scared and that they really are not strong enough to do anything much in that state etc but it still makes me scared. Another time, a lady was using a breast pump in the ladies room- I get the noise of this and saw an extension cord running into the stall.. and ridiculous though it sounds I thought it was someone doing a dialysis and I just ran! [I've seen someone on a real dialysis machine and it was not scary- my father is blind and blind people dont bother me. I can take kids throwing up-its just what I am not used to/ know]. Once at the grocery store, I was trying to get my son onto a cart and I had to carry him.. so I asked this old lady if I could take her cart- she was done putting her stuff in the car. She just ran from me with the cart to put it back! And all because I looked different (I am Asian Indian)- it made me feel bad that I had scared her by simply talking to her! abi