# How competitive are you? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 1, 1999, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-competitive-are-you/8802 "1999-10-01T12:41:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 1999, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-competitive-are-you/8802/21 "1999-10-04T16:41:00Z")
If I’m making an ass out of myself for posting this, so be it, but here goes. OpalCat, I must confess that I didn’t think about any reason that you reacted so fiercely to my story. It could very well be possible that you lost a family member or a friend because of a reckless driver, for example. If such is the case, I do apologize for my counter-reactions. Am I a softy, or what 😉 There goes my possible carreer as a Pit-Veteran everybody fears… not that I ever posted there in the first place. Anyway, if there’s no such reason, you do owe me some sort of explanation, IMHO. The main reason that I like this message board better than most European ones, is that people over here seem to be able to refrain from calling each other names etc. It’s a low threshold, after all, right ? I hope you and I can keep it that way too. ## Cheers, Coldfire * * * “You know how complex women are” - Neil Peart, Rush (1993) ---
**Author:** ![StStella](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@StStella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StStella)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 1999, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-competitive-are-you/8802/22 "1999-10-04T18:51:00Z")
Coldfire, I think the fact that you must have the last word could also be contrued as competitive. 🙂 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-competitive-are-you/8802.md?page=1)