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Have you ever beat anyone up?
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I don't know if it qualifies as "beating up" but I kind of smashed up a guy's face for trying to grope my friend at a bar last year. He was told several times that she was not interested and to leave her alone and yet he followed us and a group of friends as we left the bar. I actually pushed him away from my friend first and did not hit him. However he decided to throw the first punch and try and spit on me. I stay out of fights mostly because I never find myself in that kind of situation, I really don't understand how some people got into 3-4 fights in high school. I was never picked on in school and I was not a bully so fighting situations never really came up. Things sometimes got heated between friends but cooler heads would prevail.
Yes, I have a few times but I was never the initiator. I've also had my ego checked by coming off worse than I'd expected as well. Most recently a few years back by underestimating the effects of alcohol and turning my back on an angry man who punched the back of my head which knocked me off balance before I was thrown to the floor for a kicking to the head with boots on. All the martial arts training goes right out the window in some situations. Once I regained composure he wound up with some loose teeth, a messed up jaw and a hell of a shiner... [from one punch] and a threat for more should he try to continue. (he didn't) That's a long and awful story though and no one came out a winner from it.
Fighting sucks. It never happens as you expect it to and there are almost always better solutions.
Fighting sucks. It never happens as you expect it to and there are almost always better solutions.
sadly yes, but it was a bad time - this fellow employee decided to make a few mother comments/jokes right after my Dad died and I had forewarned him to shut up, but he didn't and I just lost. I tried walking away and he kept following me so I turned and went at him. A few shots to the face, a face slam into the cement floor and me kneeling on his back with that face still jammed into the concrete and I had his word that he would shut up.
not my proudest moment, but he respected me after that and never did bother me again.
in the end, I didn't like that violent feeling. Not a violent person so I was probably just as bothered by it.
not my proudest moment, but he respected me after that and never did bother me again.
in the end, I didn't like that violent feeling. Not a violent person so I was probably just as bothered by it.
Back many years ago when I used to drink alcohol, I would get into barfights all the time. I provoked most of them and only a few times did I get my a$$ kicked-I got knocked out by a chic smaller than me once. I dont drink alcohol anymore. I havent even been in a fight since I quit drinking.
When I was in high school I loved to fight, I never started one but somehow always seemed to be in some kind of altercation with someone. I was very skinny in school and people thought they could handle me. They were wrong. Ive been on both sides, but I have handed more ass woopins then taken them. Ive also tried to taken 3 guys at a time (wasnt a good outcome), and taken on 6'5" guys on, Ive ended up in the hospital and sent people to the hospital....My pride and temper were a big problem. I was good at fighting and very confident.
Im 29 now, and not a day goes by that I dont wonder how I am not in jail right about now. Now I avoid a fight if I can, I dont care what people think, I will only fight if I have not other way out.
Im 29 now, and not a day goes by that I dont wonder how I am not in jail right about now. Now I avoid a fight if I can, I dont care what people think, I will only fight if I have not other way out.
Grew up in a very rough town in N Ireland in the 80s to mid 90s, things were bad then, so yeah, I got into a lot of fights, and not one of them was a fair one v one.