Reality TV star gets suckerpunched, exaggerates blog headline October 1, 2007
Posted by Niels in : Other, Personal , trackbackI got hit in the face last Friday. Some drunk guy had been mouthing off to one of my friends all night. Later on, still in the bar, my group was standing together and he and his friends came by and tried to pick a fight with all of us. And later still, while I was walking through the bar alone, he and one of his friends stopped me and started yelling in my face.
The slightly less drunk friend got inches away from my face and stared me down trying to intimidate me, and while I stared back his friend sucker-punched me.
To be fair, it was less of a sucker punch and more of an open-handed push, just to the face. It did knock my glasses off. If I ever had a chance to beat the crap out of two fat Indian guys, that was it.
I’m a little disappointed that I didn’t, but honestly, it would have been really hard for me to argue after the fact that I felt my life was in any kind of danger. After I got hit (pushed?) in the face, my first instinct wasn’t “Protect myself!” but rather “Yikes! Gotta find my glasses before someone steps on them!”
So I convinced the less drunk chubby Indian guy to help me find my glasses, following which I went to talk to security.
The interesting thing about all of this is that it really doesn’t bother me that much. So a couple drunken jerks messed with me, even pushed me around a little - there’s no long term effect and I’m still in my happy place. Compare that to a year ago when I had a guy try to pick a fight with me by messing up my hair. It didn’t go anywhere, but I was still steaming mad for a few days afterwards.
Something’s happened to me in the past year. For some reason, it’s really easy to let the little stuff go. Maybe things are in perspective now, or maybe I’m just happy enough with myself that even someone being an extreme douchebag to me isn’t an issue. Whatever it is, I’m happy with it.
That said, I’m going to go ahead and get contacts now. I’ve been considering it for a while, and I’m not sure if someone who truly wanted to throwdown would really let me crawl around looking for my glasses first.
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You deliberately add as many tags to your articles as possible don’t you. So they get more traffic. Did you learn that from the TDC?
u are a pussy ass gay boy
i applaud u. =) thanks for sharing this story. alot of people could learn from u. i can’t stand violence and silly fist fights in clubs!
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Good for you! don’t stoop to their level. Plus you’d look even cuter without glasses, not that you weren’t cute already.