Stories just don't start this way.

Stories just don't start this way.

Often our confidence is linked to how we handle conflict. Those who problem solve rather than avoid or argue tend to be more confident. Confidence is also linked to self image

,which is why, when I look in the mirror, I argue with myself. I (sniff) can't help it." I looked around at everyone else in the anger management support group. They were asleep.

The counselor awoke and gave me a teary-eyed hug. "That's the first I've slept in days. You bored those crazy fiends into submission." I took my gift on the road to MMA events and

political demonstrations, wherever crowd control was an issue. For $500/hour I'd bore the life out of any person or group you wanted. My droning was scientifically calibrated to

to reprogram soda machines so that I could have free sodas. I just sit in Walmart break rooms downing orange Fanta. That's when I saw her. She was in the paint department.

Those copper lips, she was beautiful. It might have been the rustoleum she was huffing. I sauntered down the Walmart aisle and waved my Big Gulp. "Hey babe, Orange Fanta?"

She dashed the rustoleum from her lips and chugged the whole Gulp of Fanta in one, then belched loudly. I was mesmerised. Could she love Fanta in the same way I did? I grasped her

can & crushed it flat against my forehead in the adolescent display that guys think makes them look tough.Slightly dazed, I smiled at the Fanta Queen,belched the Fanta Mating Call