Originally Posted by maleficent

I work with a guy, who's gotten a lot better, either that or we're just not as easily entertained as we once were.. You'd walk by his desk, and touch him on the shoulder, and he'd jump 5 feet. Doing this 2 or 3 hundred times, it loosesit's entertainment value. If I'm concentrating on something and someone comes up to me to talk or whatever, I will often jump out of my skin - in shock... I'd love to know what my heart did -if it does skip a beat or anything.

I hate that I am so jumpy, and that it amuses people so easily (especially my father, who thinks it's funny to make me jump)