I have won every fight I've ever been in, including a 3 against 1 in college. I'm not bragging it's just that I have always been very smart about it. I only fought when it was absolutely essential and when I thought escape was no longer an option. Luckily I have had some training in different martial arts so once a fight started it was over pretty quickly. I agree completely with swilkins, there is no fair fight. You have to be willing to do whatever it takes to end tthe fight quickly and avoid being hurt. Attacking joints and vulnerable areas is the best bet. There are No Queensbury Rules in a street fight.
i would rather walk away from as many fights as humanely possible before resorting to violence. you might win this time, but what if that guy brings his friends and jump you?? violence always leads to more violence, but it is nessasary at times.
I haven’t been in a fight since junior high or maybe the start of high school.. Nothing makes people look more like idiots than fighting IMO..
I knew that's how it would come off, but before I turn in my man card.. the guy had to have a 3 inch splinter from a old fence board taken out of his arm and a nice gash over his eye closed..
I'm not much for fighting anymore these days, but I love to see two people get into a streetfight at any moment. Its a wierd fascination. I even like to check out videos of streetfights on the net. Bumfights not so much, but streetfights are good.
I want to kick this guys (Todd) ass at work right now. He used to be my supervisor when I first got here but he screwed up the project so bad that they took him off of it. Now I directly report to the Group Infrastucture Manager who reports to the CIO. My boss is in San Antonio so I never see or deal with anyone personally but I have stayed in the same area out of convenience (I guess). I also have VPN access and have worked from home quite a bit lately. When I VPN in to the network, I RDP into my machine here at work. Anyway, for some reason, it has really pissed Todd off that I am not here everyday. So last week while I'm working from home, the douche bag goes and turns my machine off here at the office. I call up and ask if my machine is off. He says yeah he turned it off because I shouldn't be working from home. I tell him that it isn't any of his concern and to turn my machine back on. We argue for about 10 minutes and finally he says he will but after 20 minutes its still not on. I call back and he conveniently "forgot" even though its about 15 feet from where the ******* is sitting. He turns the machine back on. This past Friday, I log in from home and try to access my SQL database and it says that I do not have permissions. So I try to log into the server and it also says that I do not have permissions. The jackass removed my account from the server knowing that I cannot work without this access. I am fuming pissed off but I let it go (at that time). I am able to continue working because I have a backup account that works but its a real pain in the ass to use. I knew that if I called up here or came up here on Friday I would have lost it, like really bad lost it. You have to understand what a piece of **** this guy is though. He is without a doubt the most unprofessional person that I have ever worked with and that is saying a lot. He comes to work in sweats and he dips at his desk. He farts daily and is one of those asshats that make calls via speakerphone and then proceeds to yell at the phone when he finally gets to talk to someone instead of being polite and picking the god damn thing up. Also, he wanted me to do a presentation on software integration for the people at corporate. So I come up with an outline (the night before because he drops it on me with no notice) and email it to him out of courtesy so that he knows what I am going to talk about the next day. So I drive out to San Antonio and he has completely changed my outline. I try to go through the garbage that he has given me while he interrupts me every 3 words for about 15 minutes. Finally I put my pointer down and ask him if he would care to do the presentation since he obviously has a much firmer grasp on the subject. He says no and I tell him to please quit interrupting me then and that if he had anything to add that he could do it at the end. This shuts him up. The next day I get in he is PISSED OFF and gets in my face and starts screaming at me. I politely tell him (sarcastically) to stop yelling at me but I try to diffuse the situation because I am a consultant and I did not want to get bumped at that time since I had nothing else to fall back on. I did report it though so that I had the situation properly documented. To make a short story long, I talk to my boss yesterday and explain the situation. In a round about way, he explains how he can't stand him either and grants my request to work from home from now on. I knew they didn't like each other anyway. I just do not understand why he has such a hard on for ****ing with me and I've had it up to here about it. I can honestly say that if he confronted me today that I would have a very difficult time not getting in his face. I would never start anything physical but if he touched me I wouldn't hesitate to return the favor. I'm just trying to avoid him as much as possible until I get the paperwork to take my machine home with me. Its a nice ass machine too. Dual 3.2 Ghz processors with 4GB of RAM and dual 19 inch flat panels. Its going to be sooooo nice to get this baby home. I guess knowing that I get the last laugh is what is satisfying but man am I on edge today. Oh, and to answer the original threads question, I do not want to fight but feel confident that I could hold my own if I had to. I RARELY get this way and I feel that I am typically very mild mannered.
It has been a long, long, long time since I was in a fight and even then it was more of a scuffle. I was in college (about 12 years ago) and this one guy who was more of an acquaintance than a friend started smarting off to me. It wasn't the first time he had done this and by this point I was sick of it. So after he said something smart to me, I ran full speed at him, tackled him and knocked him off his feet (I weighed like 150 and he was at least 200). I then got on top of him and just started throwing punches. Fortunately, I am not a very good puncher and a friend of both of us got in the middle (which was unfortunate for him but my punches didn't really hurt him that much ). So the kid that smarted off to me wasn't really hurt, but he never smarted off to me after that incident. These days, I weigh a little over 200 and I feel I am in good shape due to working out and running. I would like to think that I could handle myself in a fight because I have gotten stronger over the years, but you just can't teach some people how to fight. It is like you are born with that. But seriously, fighting is not a good thing to do. It is always better to try to talk things out plus you never know what people have on them in guns, knives, etc. So like someone else said (maybe it was droxford), I try not to put myself in those type of situations. I have been guilty of road rage myself in the past but it has never escalated to stopping the car and physically confronting someone or someone doing that to me. And you know what? I am going to work hard til the day I die not to get upset over people doing dumb stuff when they are on the road with me (like pulling out in front of me, driving slow in the left lane, etc.). It is just not worth getting upset over something so trivial in the grand scheme of things.
violence isn't always the answer, but it sounds like you guys could settle all this hostility pretty quick if you just stepped outside for a minute.
