I just beat a man with my walking stick

[Adarajames]

after in broke into my house through my back door; and kept him face down on the floor till the police arrived. How dare someone think they can invade my home and get away with it!?! I don't think I'm in the least bit unreasonable, do you?

I know that adrenaline can give a surge of strength, that's why I said it sometimes takes two police officers to overpower one determined culprit. In this case OP, it sounds like your adrenaline rush beat his, luckily.

Well done Adarajames Great effort

Adara how brave, well done to you. A few years ago we were burgled overnight. Dd actually heard lots of movement downstairs but initially thought it was me doing housework. Cos like I often get up and clean at 3 in the morning you know? But anyway, once alerted, I was up and down the stairs like a bat out of hell. I waslivid, absolutely raging and desperate to catch hold of them. Dh had to restrain me from following them down the road and I am pretty much a coward most of the time, and will go to great lengths to avoid confrontation. The power of adrenalin.

And, on a lighter note, some years ago I had a client who was a cross dresser. One night when he was on his way home from the cinema a man tried to snatch his handbag. The snatcher got a bit more than he bargained for and I like to think it put him off crime for knife!

Off crime for life not knife!

Well done OP. You really don't know what you are capable of until you are put into certain situations. I usually hate confrontations, and am unable to speak when someone is having a go at me, but when a drunk guy started threatening my DH outside a pub for no reason, and started walking towards us wanting a fight, I went crazy. I was half his height, but I was screaming at him to BACK OFF. I don't know why I picked back off over fuck off, but there you go. Surprisingly it did work, and he was backing away from us, asking me to stop shouting. I just got louder and louder. He just slinked away from the crazy lady. I shocked myself, and it has never happened before or since. I was just so pissed off.