Have you ever been in a fist fight?

[sviato]

But, funnily enough, I was verbally assaulted by a psycho this morning outside our work cafe. My bag happened to brush him as I left the cafe and he came storming out, barking that there was not one thing about me that he liked.

I saw one of these crazies the other day. Was walking to the subway and the path war narrow cause there was snow on both sides so people walking opposite ways had to squeeze by each other.

Anyways, I'm walking behind this older guy and someone walking towards us lightly brushed the older guy's elbow with his bag. The older guy instantly turned around yelling "you ****ing idiot! you stupid ****ing idiot" I was like some people really overreact in these situations.

 

[Solomani]

Just curious. I'm almost 25 and have never actually been in a fist fight. Not really sure why, it's just never happened. Just wondering how common that is, so please share your stories. Maybe I should add a poll to this.

Way back in 3rd grade. Bigger fat bully boy was punching me (not hard, more like an intimidating slap). My knee-jerk response was to thrust a sharpened pencil into his ears.

First time I got to meet a Principal in person.

I'm much older now. Don't ever look forward to fighting another adult. But if I was provoked into one....I'm very afraid that I won't be using fists. I recently completed gun safety course and now am shopping for a handgun.

 

[R3VOx]

Been in a few fist fights. No I'm not a violent person, and yes girls have been involved.

The biggest one I was in involved in had to do with a girl I was seeing and her crazy/violent/angry ex boyfriend. We were out at the bars together and we happened to run into this guy. He got in her face and was yelling at her. Decides to just drop his beer bottle in the middle of the dance floor and it shatters everywhere. That was just the beginning. He left and we brushed it off.

Later that night, we walked back to her place. She runs into her apartment as her friend and I wait outside. We were going to her friends apartment for some more drinks. Her ex happens to live next door. Somehow the douche happened to be inside her apartment. Probably just waiting for her to get home. They start yelling at each other again so I walk inside to see what's going on. As I'm walking up the stairs he shoves her down right in front of me and holds her down. So instinctively I run up the stairs and grab him by the throat and throw him up against the wall. This is when things escalated.

He was quite a bit larger than I was so I really don't know why I decided this was a good idea. Protecting the girl I cared about I guess. So we just stare at each other in a deadlock. We somehow move this downstairs to the front entrance (little blurry how that happened). Being the douche he is he rips his shirt off preparing to fight. Words were said and he lunges at me. Fists start swinging like crazy. I connected with his face a few times and somehow he only caught me in the skull. Probably hurt his hand more than my head. He backs up and has blood running down his face. The girl was feisty and starts yelling at him again. He proceeds to spit blood all over her. Looked like she had murdered someone. I noticed my invicta watch had come apart at the band. I was pissed it was broken. I picked it up, said some more angry words to him, and proceeded to slap him with the watch. Kind of insulting.

This infuriated him and he came back for round two. Same thing basically happened with me hitting him in the face a couple more times and him just swinging wildly and not getting much from it. Eventually he accepted defeat. Walked outside yelling how much he hated me and wanted her back. Pissed enough where he punches a hole clean through a wooden door (this guy was strong). Cops show up, detain him, question the two girls and I, ask if we want to press charges (we didn't), and then tell us to leave. All this time they had him in their squad car.

We went to her friends apartment and cleaned the blood off of her. Turned out I broke her ex boyfriends nose. Lucky punch. Best part was he was a high school teacher. Must have been fun going back to teaching Monday with a broken nose and black eye. Classy. I just walked away with a swollen right hand. Good times.

 

[dcharleyultra]

Have you ever been in a fist fight?

I'm much older now. Don't ever look forward to fighting another adult. But if I was provoked into one....I'm very afraid that I won't be using fists. I recently completed gun safety course and now am shopping for a handgun.

Ummm... you might now want to take some personal protection courses to find out that that would be your last resort.

 

[Micky Do]

Just curious. I'm almost 25 and have never actually been in a fist fight. Not really sure why, it's just never happened. Just wondering how common that is, so please share your stories. Maybe I should add a poll to this.

Not in the past four and a half decades or so. Back when I was a nine stone weakling at school (but fit enough to play four years in the field hockey 1st XI) a big dude got a bit physical with me over something. I let fly with one to his eye, which angered him, and he hammered me. The next day he was sporting a black eye.

Our next violent encounter was legitimate, on the soccer field when we both went for the ball at full speed. He crashed into me and I hit the ground with an almighty thump. He passed the ball on and helped me up. He regarded me as a mate from then on.

 

[Dweez]

Once, in the 70s when I was a teenager, during "temporary incarceration".

 

[Phil A.]

I had plenty in my younger days (but I also had an atrocious temper). Since my mid 20's I've learned to control my temper and my fists and avoided any physical conflicts

 

[Mousse]

I had plenty in my younger days (but I also had an atrocious temper). Since my mid 20's I've learned to control my temper and my fists and avoided any physical conflicts

Seems a lot of us old timers had a temper back in the day. As a scrawny kid of 16, I had a "coward of the county" moment where I left several guys in various states of hurt. To this day I don't recall what set me off or how I ended beating up 3 guys with a 50-70lbs size advantage. What I do remember was the flogging I received from my pacifist dad that night. Boy, I couldn't sit for a week.

It wasn't until my 30's that I managed to wrangle my temper under control. Now, I work out my frustration on a heavy bag I hang in the backyard.

 

[ElectronGuru]

Implicit in many of our reports is the 'worthwhileness' of fighting back. I'm still not sure of the answer, but...

Bullies don't disappear when you reach adulthood. They just change from fists on the school yard to politics in the office. And while it sounds less severe, getting punched can hurt less than being fired.

We feel a wrong or see a wrong and take a stand and pay a price. Was it worth it? Why not just stay in the corner, leaving the bully to hurt others?

 

[prvt.donut]

Funny story.

After school in eighth grade some kids from school and I were having a snowball fight. The snow wasn't really soft it was a more kind of icy. I packed a snowball and tossed it high up in the air towards this mexican kid and as he was packing a snowball he looked up, and it hit him square in the face. He got PISSED and started chasing me. This kid got in fights like every week at school. I was pretty fast and i sprinted all the way home, he gave up about halfway.

The next day at school was the day before winter break and i got to school (we would wait outside until the doors opened) and one of my friends came up to me and told me that the kid was looking for me and wanted to beat my ass. I tried to stay calm and went to go talk to a couple friends and he finally came up to me, bruised and cut from the snowball, and pushed my friends aside and punched me so hard i fell to the ground. Im pretty sure i got a concussion and i got surrounded by kids trying to help me get up.

After this he got expelled, moved to mexico for a couple years. When he came back he was in a gang and got arrested and put in jail for murder. I guess that would be my only fist fight, if that counts.

story on shooting if anyone is interested: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-09-04/news/ct-met-laundromat-shooting-0904-20120904_1_laundromat-padilla-shot-mother

If only you had managed to apologise to him at the time, maybe his whole life would have been different...

 

[carjakester]

If only you had managed to apologise to him at the time, maybe his whole life would have been different...

I did... Then he hit me

 

[The Doctor11]

Nope

 

[Jnesbitt82]

I lost it at snoopy pencil

Do you remember them? they were like 3x the size of a regular pencil in thickness. Who would've thought that it could be used as a weapon?

 

[7thson]

Funny story.

After school in eighth grade some kids from school and I were having a snowball fight. The snow wasn't really soft it was a more kind of icy. I packed a snowball and tossed it high up in the air towards this mexican kid and as he was packing a snowball he looked up, and it hit him square in the face. He got PISSED and started chasing me. This kid got in fights like every week at school. I was pretty fast and i sprinted all the way home, he gave up about halfway.

The next day at school was the day before winter break and i got to school (we would wait outside until the doors opened) and one of my friends came up to me and told me that the kid was looking for me and wanted to beat my ass. I tried to stay calm and went to go talk to a couple friends and he finally came up to me, bruised and cut from the snowball, and pushed my friends aside and punched me so hard i fell to the ground. Im pretty sure i got a concussion and i got surrounded by kids trying to help me get up.

After this he got expelled, moved to mexico for a couple years. When he came back he was in a gang and got arrested and put in jail for murder. I guess that would be my only fist fight, if that counts.

story on shooting if anyone is interested: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-09-04/news/ct-met-laundromat-shooting-0904-20120904_1_laundromat-padilla-shot-mother

Why did you stop? You haven't told us the funny part yet.

 

[thehustleman]

Just curious. I'm almost 25 and have never actually been in a fist fight. Not really sure why, it's just never happened. Just wondering how common that is, so please share your stories. Maybe I should add a poll to this.

I've been in plenty.

Growing up where I grew up you had to learn how to fight or get bullied.

Sometimes I was able to play the crazy card and get out of a fight, other times that just didn't work.

I grew out of fighting because you just lose interest, but it's been 2003 since my last fight.

I have no intentions of having another.

 

[sammy-boy]

Apart from the odd brief scrap at school I've never been in a fight.

I tend to avoid conflict, perhaps to my detriment, I even hate the way online forum threads turn into arguments. I'd rather walk away from a fight, even at times if I know I'm right. Arguing with an idiot or risking getting into a fist fight to me is pointless and a waste of energy, unless it's seriously to my detriment.

 

[Roller]

The only fight I've ever been involved in was with another kid at camp when I was around 10 years old or so. Nothing too serious. These days, I try to avoid physical altercation as much as possible. I'd rather walk away than be stabbed or shot.

 

[S.B.G]

I was involved in a schoolyard brawl once when I was probably 9 or 10 years old. A few punches were exchanged with one other kid and then the fight ended rather quickly as teachers swarmed in to separate everyone.

In the US Marines, I had my fair share of "friendly" wrestling/fighting matches.

 

[Face Ache]

I've been in plenty.

Growing up where I grew up you had to learn how to fight or get bullied.

Same here. Can't even think off the top of my head how many fights I've had.

 

[thehustleman]

Same here. Can't even think off the top of my head how many fights I've had.

Yep, we didn't all grow up privileged.


I'm just glad I emerged from that type of environment.

 

[Shrink]

Yep, we didn't all grow up privileged.

So having avoided getting into fights means that one grew up "privileged"?

That comes as a great surprise to me, as one who grew up in a lower middle class family in a lower middle class neighborhood in NY.

Possibly the Quote above represents a a mistaken, and somewhat insulting, stereotype...

 

[Renzatic]

I've always felt like I've missed out on something by not getting in enough fist fights. Cuz these day, I can't take a punch for crap.

I can throw a good one, and I look just mean enough most people don't mess with me. But the moment I get hit, I'm all like "OW! THAT HURTS! WHY DO YOU DO".

...maybe I should take up boxing.

 

[Shrink]

I've always felt like I've missed out on something by not getting in enough fist fights. Cuz these day, I can't take a punch for crap.

I can throw a good one, and I look just mean enough most people don't mess with me. But the moment I get hit, I'm all like "OW! THAT HURTS! WHY DO YOU DO".

...maybe I should take up boxing.

Highly recommend against boxing! I had boxing as part of Phys. Ed. as an undergrad (believe me, not my choice!). As you mentioned above...getting hit in the face, boxing gloves or not, really hurts!

Granted, I'm a total wimp...

 

[Renzatic]

Highly recommend against boxing! I had boxing as part of Phys. Ed. as an undergrad (believe me, not my choice!). As you mentioned above...getting hit in the face, boxing gloves or not, really hurts!

Granted, I'm a total wimp...

But that's the point! I need to learn how to get punched in the head! Barring a couple of instances, no one's ever wanted to pick a fight with me. It wasn't like I ever avoided them or anything, they just rarely ever came up.

I feel like I've missed out on a good part of my childhood, and I never got the chance to develop my barfight skills because of it.

 

[Shrink]

But that's the point! I need to learn how to get punched in the head! Barring a couple of instances, no one's ever wanted to pick a fight with me. It wasn't like I ever avoided them or anything, they just rarely ever came up.

I feel like I've missed out on a good part of my childhood, and I never got the chance to develop my barfight skills because of it.

Aah...stupid of me. Of course, everyone should learn to be punched in the head. Clearly an essential skill...coping with concussions is a useful skill, indeed.

Missing out on important childhood experiences can be troublesome all one's life, I'm told. I wish for you the resolution of this issue though many punches to the head.

Empathy...essential to my work...