In terms of "real" fights, i haven't really been in many. I would also never start a fight. But things happen. The times i can think of are as follows.
1) I had a bit of a shoving contest with someone in school that never really escalated into anything else. We were friends so it was never likely to, we just roughed each other up a little and made up later the same day.
2) When i was either 17 or 18 me and some friends got beat up a bit after a sixth form college party. We were waiting for a taxi and so one of my mates was with his girlfriend and then there was me and another mate sat down on the step outside of the pub. So we never really had a chance. We took a few kicks to the head but when you're sat down, you can't really do much about it other than take it. This group of lads were clearly gonna start something with us anyway the way i see it, but my big mouth when ive been drinking didn't help matters. It wasn't funny at the time but looking back on it, it was a costume party so when a couple of lads had my mate with the girlfriend on the floor giving him a few kicks to the ribs they were begging Batman to get up which we laugh about now.
3) I was also once walking home with the same mate i was sat on the step with when a group of charvers (chavs) blocked our path so we expected something to happen there. It was a very weird experience though as only one of them broke away from the group, took a swing at me and bust my lip but the next thing i knew is every single one of his friends pinned him to the floor, gave him a kicking and told us to keep walking. So that didn't escalate either.
I've also managed to come out on the losing end of a couple of fights on nights out because i'm usually the one trying to break it up. Fighting is pretty stupid but one day i'll learn when a fight can be broken up and when it can't. Once you end up taking the first punch it's not always gonna work out well for you.
Whenever i've come out on top it also hasn't really been a fight, it's been a single punch and it was all over. I don't mean because it was such a good punch that they ran or anything, more it just seemed to end any possible conflict. It takes alot for me to hit someone.
4) I hit someone once when i was younger for saying something about my niece who was very young at the time. He didn't live far from me, so i knocked on his door, asked if he was in, when he came to the door i hit him and left.
5) There was a complete waste of space, excuse of a guy i once saw go up to a complete stranger in the street and scream something directly into her face. I'm not gonna repeat it but she was a black girl, i'm sure you can join the dots. I hit him too and i think he may have just been too drunk to get back to his feet again so i just let her get far enough away and walked away.
Those last 2 examples are the only reasons I have for knowing i can do something when i have to though, i'm soft as shit really.
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