I don't live anywhere particularly dangerous
and have never been in a fight *touches wood*

but I am pretty big and short runty twats seem to view that as an invitation to try and pick fights with me.

I'd hope that I'd be able to punch someone pretty hard, but I don't want to find out I can't at the wrong moment so better to be able to run away a bit and prepare myself for a fight :-)

just remembered an incident from last night. I had just stepped out my back door to have a j and a read of my book and heard some voices over the back wall saying "this is where the bath is, shit there's a big bloke in there"

(I have my old bath in the garden at the moment)

turned out to be two pikeys on a scavenging mission who had spied my taps on an earlier reccy and had come back with tools to half-inch them. I quickly decided that I should invite them into the garden to try and remove the taps with my blessing, because otherwise they would definitely come and do it anyway and might try and get the ones off the sink by smashing it against my house or something...

they couldn't get them off with the tools they had so needed to come back another time. I suggested that they come back tonight when I'm there.

better than having the buggers pissing about in my garden unsupervised!
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 13 Aug 2008, 11:17, Reply)