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 I'm probably like that because I was raised by a military officer. Or I inherited his personality, or something.
Here are our options, we got five minutes to make the correct decision or our ass is grass. WHAT IS THE ANSWER, SOLDIER?

My ancestry is a bunch of soldiers and cops and competitive athletes, on both sides. Must rub off. 😅  
 my family on both sides for several generations have been nurses and orderlies, pretty much 
 analysts and monitors 
 ah yeah, and engineer/tinkerers haha... my opa built several houses, so did my father, so did my grandfather, he was also a mathematics teacher and was grumpy with me for my dad not pushing me to get into computers more (and he did eventually get a computer and i was a pig for it of course) 
 Almost all of the men are engineers, technicians, and electricians or farmers. People who like "things".
My father is a network engineer and my mother is a budget analyst. 
 😆
Forrest Gump scenes !