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In reply to the discussion: It's Official: A Democratic President Offered to Cut Social Security [View all]Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)I'm not sure how else you'd characterize it if someone told you not to worry about something than that they were comfortable with the situation.
I see phlegmatic as being a good thing or at least not a bad one, I wish I were able to react that way myself but my position is too damn precarious to allow me to see it that way. It's like being a passenger in a car with somone whose driving you don't entirely trust, you can't help but put your right foot on the floorboards and start pressing the nonexistent brake pedal sometimes. If that driver then starts playing chicken you'll be trying to put you foot right through the floorboards. Since I don't have a car I have to ride with people that scare me often enough that I'm well acquainted with the feeling, one of my rides in particular looks at anything and everything *except* the damn road and I have to sometimes literally bite my tongue to keep from telling them to keep their eyes on the road and their hands upon the wheel.