You were poseidon and you had just learned that Odysseus had blinded your Cyclops child Polyphemus. You looked at him dead in the eyes and told him that you will raise the waves so high that all of Ithaca will be drown including his wife and son. "Poseidon, we meant no harm, we only hurt him to disarm him, we took no pleasure in his pain, we only wanted to escape!" He said determined, he wasn't really scared of you, just a little bit.