Posted: Apr 11, 2008, 7:41 PM CST
I was 20 when my daughter pulled a piece of plastic off her playpen and choked. I also turned her upside down and dislodged it. I caught it quickly and wasn't so scared.
I was scared, when a new guy in the neighborhood tried to break into the house, through her window. I saw him from a sliding glass door, got my gun, called him from the front of the house and stood inside my house, holding him at gunpoint, until the deputies arrived.
I had met him the night before at a friends house. He was wanted in Florida for rape.
The off-duty cop who took me to a secluded park, and stalked me for months, after I hitch-hiked a ride from him, at 18, ranks a close second.