Walking down Sauchiehall Street
Across the road from the Garage nightclub, a bunch of shellsuited 15 year old neds were walking in the opposite direction.

I had a rucksack with a brand new motherboard and my laptop in it. One of the neds utters a yell and attempts to jump and slap me.

I'd been training karate for about 4 years. What did I do. Assess the situation and kick him in the head as he came towards me? Step slightly out of his way and laugh at him?

No...

I produced some sort of reflex punch/ block that just missed his face; he just missed me at the same instant too. If the blow had connected with him, I'd either have been set upon by many neds, or done for assault.

I'm glad, in retrospect, that I didn't manage to hit him. And I'm glad I was sensible and didn't chase after the wee bastards, and I'd proably have managed to lose or damage a grand's worth of computer gear.

But boy, did I want to kill those little pricks for weeks afterwards.
( drunkenoaf, Thu 15 Jun 2006, 23:40, Reply)