Ever ran from someone that wanted to kick your ass?

[HEyHEY]

I ran, I ran really damned fast. It was some big gorrilla nicknamed "Pots."

Some people just can't take a joke.

[ForrestGump]

1. Ran toward one, in my adulthood, and ran away from another (who

had a knife, anyway). All other such situations, to the best of my recollection, defused by either a sane buddy of the antagonist or by their counterpart on my side. Most who profess to desire delivering such gluteal punishment are all hot air, anyway...

Running is the ultimate martial art.

[HEyHEY]

7. One bit of pride I salvaged was the next day

It was the last day of school, I had to do my final exam. I barely slept the night thinking I'd catch a beating the next day. But I decided, "Fuck him, if I see this guy I'm tear him to pieces." And put on my best face, and went to school. I had to do it. realistically I probably could have taken him the first day, I used to be a pretty tough kid back then and had triumphed as the underdog many times before. But I went through two years of devoted pacifism. So when the guy jumped me I was in shock and ran. Lucky for me, I could run faster scared than he could angry.

I never saw him until I was in a cafe in downtown Vancouver years later. He walked in, I don't know if he recognized me. But I sat there the whole night debating whether or not to go for vengence. I decided to just leave before I drnak too much.

Reminds me of quote though.
"I've only lost one fight, that's when I slipped running around the corner."

That day at school made me realize there is a difference between bravery and stupidity. Stupidity is thinking you will be the victor no matter what. Bravery is having the stugats to show up even though you know you will probably get killed.

[mistertrickster]

2. No, but I've walked away . . . heh

Never regretted it either.

[MikeG]

3. Sic your polar bear on him.

[HEyHEY]

8. Buttercup - KILL!

[name not needed]

4. No

I waited around for him. He never showed up.

[johnnie]

5. I did

When i was a teen the guy down the block wanted to kick my ass for no reason. I was about 5'4" 120 pnds and he was about 6 feet tall. He chased me down the street so, I let him catch up so he was right behind me and I quickly squatted down and he fell over me. I heard the thud of him hitting the concrete and I took off thru the woods. He never did bother me again and we even became friends a few years later.

[VOX]

6. I turned and walked away from a total nutcase -- he had murder in his eyes

The guy was our high school psycho, and I knew he was crazy enough to not even feel much (in any) pain from whatever I could do to him.

He committed suicide a couple of years later. I can look back now and can see that the poor guy lived in a tremendous amount of pain.

[GreenInNC]

9. yes

I used to be a bouncer at a country music bar in the NC mountains.

[DarkPhenyx]

10. Nope.

I figure they'll catch me anyway and I'll just be tired when they kick my ass. I stand and make them pay for it, and I usually come out on top anyway. I'm a little feller, but I am one nasty son of a bitch when cornered and forced to fight. I don't like to lose.

[ldf]

11. no, i stood there and got beat to a pulp

i was about 13 or 14. the only fight i have ever been in.

it has shamed me to this day.

[HEyHEY]

12. That's too bad

When I was 13 it was the first day of grade 8 and this fucker in grade nine tried to pull a power trip on the bus home.
Only thing the shithead didn't get is that I'd grown up with EVERYONE on the bus, and none were impressed (Including my sister).
But they were impressed when I beat the ever-lovin' shit outta him.
If you ever come to Port Moody BC, don't fuck with the IOCO kids, we stick together.

[DrWeird]

13. Walked away.

But only because I was much bigger, and his girlfriend (who was hot) literally begged me not to hurt him.

[HEyHEY]

14. That's awsome

I remember in grade 11 this guy named Muhamed who was a friend of mine fucking CRACK this douche bag named Ed who called his girlfriend a bitch.

The guy's knees buckled. And Muhamed said "No one calls my girlfriend a bitch." And after that...I doubt anyone did.

She wasn't a bitch on the slightest, a very sweet girl.

[DrWeird]

18. I clocked my big brother once.

Following a heated agrument.

Then I physically forced him to apologize.

I guess I was paying him back for sixteen years of bullying, but now that I'm an adult I've always regretted it.

[supernova]

15. Fought a lot in 4th and 5th grade

Mostly boys, go figure. :shrug: I guess that was my aggressive period.

The last bully I encountered, I put my shoe to his backside, shoving him out of my apartment. He got the message.

[SOteric]

16. I wish it were that simple, but in my experience

the people who've wanted to instigate a serious hurt on me did so in a far more insidious, manipulative, scheming and underhanded way.

Running away has a limited effect in such circumstance.

[HEyHEY]

17. Yeah

Fuckers

[supernova]

19. Psychological tormentors

usually crumble when you name their tricks in front of them. "I know you're <insert behavior here> to me."

They count on you being too stupid or reticent to call them on it.