It's funny - I'm usually fine around My People (tm), or people whom I've just met, or anything like that. It used to be that way, and I was able to work on it enough so that it would lessen. I thought the impulses were gone, turns out they just found another rock to hide under.

(but I do that too, sometimes - especially with the joke thing.)

(the tuba story has caused a gigglefit, I must confess. Speaking of 12.)