Originally Posted by johndowe

I remember when i was 17 or so i was in colege, i lived in Montreal, my new freinds and study group lived on the south shore (Longueuil), so i had to go home after we were done, i would take 1 of 2 routes, depending on the time, the first my freinds would walk me to the bus stop, if it was before 11:30 i would stay to the end of line to the Metro (subway), and get out right next to where i lived, but if it was later then i'd have to get off in a secluded area and wait about 15-20 minutes for another bus, and walk a while to get home, i usually took the second.

One time there were 4 guys that were a bit drunk, and were looking for trouble, i saw them, but didn't react to them, i was looking for the bus, then the guys were all around me one on each side and one in back and the "leader" in front of me, then with the back of his hand hits me on the upper chest, not as an attack but as an ivasion of my space, and said: (translated from french) "Hey dude what time is it?"

-PAUSE-

The guy disrespected me by invading my space and touching me, they were looking for trouble, why else would they be all around me like that? So what should i do?

Tell them the time? Then what; that's a nice watch, give it to me, i refuse i get beat-up. No thanks.

I could have attacked, and hit two but the two other would have gotten me, then all four would have beaten me real bad, bad plan.


-RESUME-

I slowly looked at where he touched me and stared him down, being a bit drunk, he didn't get it yet, and hit/touched me again and asked what time it was, again, again i looked where he touched me and stared him down, after a bit, he was getting nervous, and so were his freinds, i was too but they were more nervous than me AND i made a point of NOT showing that i was nervous, and one of them, broke ranks and took the "leader" away and said "this guy's dangerous", and they left, and THEN i told them what time it was as a fuck you thing, and the leader was glad the guy broke rank and took him off of me.

What happened there, was that they dis-respected me and wanted to get into a fight that i had little chance of winning, but I DIDN'T let them get away with dis-respect me, and i didn't play their game, because they knew how to play their game, probably much better than me, so i played MY game, and i won, i had kept my self respect and they had a bit of respect for me but alot more fear, in this case it was inevitable, and a good thing, and i had intimidated them, four against one and they were the ones intimidated, who knew?