After concluding my routine closing duties at my former job, I punched out and headed home to change. A friend had called and threw out the idea of getting a few beers in celebration of my new found freedom, I entertained the thought. I picked him up and we went downtown to a local pub. I was surprised by how busy it was for Monday at midnight. We grabbed a few pints and headed for the pool tables.
I was looking at my shot options when the two men standing behind me chimed in. The one kid (he couldn’t have been more than 21) seemed to be a bit cocky and was telling me what I had to do. I thought nothing of it and was saved by a few girls walking by that distracted him. I took my shot and continued the game. A few minutes later I was up again and in order for me to take my shot it required that the guys move. I was very polite and asked them to move, they did without a fuss. I took my shot and everything was fine until this punk ass kid stepped back (he was pretty wasted) and bumped into me. He then had the balls to tell me to “knock it the fuck off”. His buddy looked me in the eyes and immediately started apologizing for his friend. It was in that split instant that I thought, “is this punk ass little kid going to try to fight with me?” By nature I’m a lover and not a fighter, so the absolute last thing I will do during a confrontation is aggravate the situation to the level of physical violence. It was during that brief moment that I ran a few scenarios through my head in which this kid started violently attacking me. It was at that exact moment when I thought, “Am I going to have to stab this kid tonight”.
Like I said, I will only resort to violence as a last possible resort, one of defense. I will not stand there and let someone pummel me with punches, but I will also never be the guy to throw the first punch. I have never been in any type of physical fight in my life, and I sure hope to keep it that way.
the two kids left and nothing happened. I’m glad of that.
August 29, 2006 at 13:43
‘phew’ I am glad the situation turned out alright there my friend, though after the ‘lover not a fighter’ part I thought you were going to say you just grabbed him and kissed him. But that would have probably caused some violence.
August 29, 2006 at 16:54
Out of curiosity, what would you have stabbed him with? I mean, would you have use the pool stick (which would be hard to do unless you had time to break it), a knife in you pocket you carry around just in case of such an emergency, or is it referring to the “lover not a fighter” line? I need to know.
September 5, 2006 at 15:04
actually i would have used either a pen or fingernail clippers i guess. I was just glad things didn’t escalate to that (ball)point.