Originally posted by milefile
For whatever reason I was remembering a fight I was in in my highschool days. Fists flailing, blood, etc. I think everybody ends up in some kind of physical altercation at some point, whether you like it or not.
So...
Did you get your ass whooped? Did you heroically prevail? Did you run like a little wussie?
I have avoided/talked my way out of every fight I could. Granted, a lot of my "avoidance" behaviors could be classified differently.
Once in 6th or 7th grade this huge dude (Way bigger than me at the time, I think it was his 3rd or fourth time thru that grade) came after me in a classroom, 'cause Iwas "breathing his air". Since he had reach and 40 lbs. on me, I started flinging desks into his path and made my way to the "athletic equipment cabinet". I
avoided the fight by laying hold to one of Louisville's finest Sluggers.
I really didn't want to fight, he really didn't want his head ripped into deep left field. Fight averted.
As a little kid, I was pretty mean though. I blacked another child's eye over a Hot wheel (The green Eldorado, if you must know). He dumped my Eldo down a grate, then got downright belligerent when I wanted him to get it back. He swung at me and met a mean jab to the eye. I was 5.

Little did he know that my brother, who was 21 at the time, was taking upon himself to teach me to box.
I once had an older child try to take something from me. I was in second grade. He was in fourth. I didn't want to give it to him and he got a trifle insistent. So I tried to bisect his skull with my (metal) Charlie Brown lunchbox. It had my thermos, a windbreaker, and a couple of small (but thick) books inside.
Needless to say, he did not get my possessions.

I've only started one physical altercation in my 39 years. But, there was a time that I wouldn't back down from one either.