Just as I started dating my wife, I decided one evening to play a trick on her, only to have it seriously backfire on me. It happened while we were both in college. We had agreed to meet near one of the buildings in the evening after class for coffee.
As a kid, I always loved shocking people by suddenly popping out from a hiding place, and, shouting, "Boo!" I thought I would do it here for fun. When she arrived, I jumped out from the bushes, and, shouted, "Boo!"
I was expecting shock, and, maybe a laugh; instead, she reacted much differently. Sensing something worse, she instictively kicked backward, hitting me in the balls with tremendous force! I tried my darndest, not to burst into tears from the agony.
It was later that night that I learned that she had a 3rd degree black belt in taekwondo. She still trains in taekwondo, so, I now always announce myself when entering a room. I figure that I am safest that way.
