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Originally Posted by NSP
Wow...
You know, most people wouldn't stop when they found out it was their ex...  |
Yeah, I get that alot
It's still funny too.
Once she identified herself, I was more concerned with scanning for any other threats and the fact that I couldn't see her hands. The bigger problem was that the garage door to the interior was open and undefended. Knowing that stuff can change in an instant, I made a decision to leave her there and secure the door.
What was very interesting to me was that under the stress of the situation, I reverted back to my prior training. It was interesting too to have experienced the difference between pepper spray in a training scenario vs. pepper spray in a real attack. The training scenario didn't really have much at stake. The real attack p*ssed me off and no doubt increased the adrenalin dump. I was thinking who is this a-hole in MY garage spraying sh*t in my face. I knew there was some other objective and I was not going to check out in my garage.
I know I bought some recovery time by creating distance when I initially stepped into the garage. As I was recovering from the initial attack and closing the gap, I was looking up thinking that this a-hole was taller than me. I was probably just not aware that I was crouching in a pretty low stance. (ex is 5' 4" and I'm 6' 1"-- she wasn't wearing heels).
The entire encounter probably took no more than 20 seconds from when I was initially hit with the pepper spray to the time I re-entered the house through the garage door.
I think the real reason that I walked out of that garage that night was that I made fewer tactical errors than she did. I was clueless when I entered the garage. If she had properly executed her plan there is no reason that she shouldn't have succeeded. There are some lessons here that I'm still digesting.