The meek shall inherit the earth..... if it's alright with you

My new therapist called me a gentle giant, lol. I told her I don’t really want to fight anyone, especially at my age I just want to be left alone. I’ve been told that when I get mad I look pretty intimidating. Good. And bad. But people piss me off.

I told her about how when I was shooting pool in a bar years ago, some loser started picking a fight with me. The guy was with his friends and he was drunk and I decided that discretion was the better part of valor and I backed down. Then I told her how some idiot where I live now was staring me down in the dining hall a couple of months ago so I walked up to him and got in his face and threatened him.

I feel justified because I learned this same guy had tried to pick a fight with the guy I share a room with. Anyway, I don’t go around starting fights. Hell, except for a fight I saw outside the 7-11 next door about a month ago, I hadn’t even seen anyone else fight in 15 years. And anyway, most people don’t get in even one fight throughout there whole adulthood lives.

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You haven’t met my father or my step mom lol

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Lol, yeah my dad was the one that told me most adults don’t get in fights.Then I seem to remember him telling me that when he was the age I am now (55), that he got in a pretty bad fight with some 35 year old punk. He blackened both the guys eyes and gave him a fat lip before being knocked down by the guy by a punch to his forehead.

I got in a fight with a guy in a jail once. That’s about it for a 74 year life.

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Got in way too many fights, always outnumbered and mismatched. Was a young punk. Nowadays I’d rather use diplomacy than get my nose more crooked than it already is or cut my lip a second time.