Do You Succumb To Provocations Easily Or Are You Able To Retain Self-Control For The Most Part?

[Nameless14]

Elaborate, please.

[jim360]

What are you saying about me? Don't you EVER COME NEAR ME OR ANYONE I KNOW AGAIN!!!

Also, occasionally, yes, but usually I just let it simmer inside until I've calmed down.

[Mamyalynne]

I'm not prone to flare ups and prefer to calmly address a situation, dropping your voice low helps you keep control as the one shouting has to pause to hear you.

[rowanwitch]

Try provoking me you will find out......

[Baldric]

Self control rules, never a problem,







and don't make me have to tell you again!

[nailit]

I'm afraid I have a short fuse and its got me into trouble more times than I care to think about.
I like to think that I am able to exercise self control but then someone/something upsets me and.....

[rowanwitch]

I have my warrior princess moments as they are known to my friends. Lucky I don't carry a chokram.

[Old_Geezer]

As I age it has become more difficult to remain calm, but except when alone, I can usually manage.

[maggiebee]

Worked on a short fuse for many years. I then did my Samaritan training and things changed for the better.

[Patsy33]

No. More often than not, I'm able to retain self control.

[-Talbot-]

I'm known for being impossible to wind up.

[mibn2cweus]

When someone attempts to provoke me, odds are what they are suggesting about me is to some extent true so rather than prove them right . . . I just keep my mouth shut.

[david small]

I respond rather too quickly to provoking, and often don’t think before I speak.

[Old_Geezer]

Talbot's lost his key :-(

[Buenchico]

I hardly ever respond to provocation.

For example, I can honestly say that in around half a million miles of driving I've never sounded my car's horn in annoyance at another driver, nor shaken my fist, raised one or two fingers or anything else. I simply shrug my shoulders and ignore things.

When I worked on the railways I attended a course on 'conflict avoidance', where we were all given scores out of 40 to indicate how likely we were to get into conflict situations. One train conductor (who had a reputation for having to call the police to sort out problems) scored 38. Everyone else, with just one exception, scored between 12 and 27. I was the exception, with a score of just 3.

[naomi24]

Never easily provoked. Being 'offended' serves only to satisfy the offender.