i have been held hostage in a store robbery situation.
[{"role": "system", "content": "A hostage is a person or entity which is held by one of two belligerent parties to the other or seized as security for the carrying out of an agreement, or as a preventive measure against war. However, in contemporary usage, it means someone who is seized by a criminal abductor in order to compel another party such as a relative, employer, law enforcement, or government to act, or refrain from acting, in a particular way, often under threat of serious physical harm to the hostage(s) after expiration of an ultimatum. A person who seizes one or more hostages is known as a hostage-taker; if the hostages are present voluntarily, then the receiver is known as a host. The English word \"hostage\" derives from French \"ostage\", modern \"otage\", from Late Latin \"obsidaticum\" (Medieval Latin \"ostaticum, ostagium\"), the state of being an \"obses\" (plural \"obsides\"), \"hostage\", from Latin \"obside\u014d\" (\"I haunt / frequent / blockade / besiege\"), but an etymological connection was later supposed with Latin \"hostis\" (\"stranger,\" later \"enemy\"). This long history of political and military use indicates that political authorities or generals would legally agree to hand over one or usually several hostages in the custody of the other side, as guarantee of good faith in the observance of obligations.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I couldn't ever imagine being held hostage. It seems like the scariest thing - I would freak out"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes, I guess I would freak out too.  But are you thinking about a particular incident right now?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Not exactly, just thinking. Being alone all by yourself would be scary, kind of like that movie The Thing - freaked me out - saw it the other day"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I haven't seem that movie but I don't like horror movies that much. What was that movie about?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Horror film: It's about these researchers in Antartica fighting off canines lol"}, {"role": "user", "content": "You mean canines like some kind of wild dogs?  I agree that being in the Antarctica must be scary even without having to fight anything?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Free-ranging dog: Pretty much, yea. It gets really intense, but I think my fear of it has more to do with the fact that I used to be terrified of dogs haha"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I love dogs! I will sometimes be afraid of them attacking my dog though.  Particularly if they seem aggressive. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Origin of the domestic dog: It's understandable to not want your dog to be attacked, and dogs really can make for great companions around the house."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes we are very close and I love to take him walking and hiking, because he enjoy so much.  It seems dog have been close to human for thousands of  years."}]