Re: The Body as Battlefield

Richard Corfield <Richard.Corfield@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Fortunately the two confrontational situations I've been in didn't
escalate to a fight which is the best way. Staying calm probably helped
in both cases.

The only really potentially scary situation I have been in as an adult
was a couple of months post 9/11. I was standing at the bus stop after
work, it was lateish. There was a young Asian moslem woman, headscarf,
there too.

A wiry old guy who was clearly drunk started getting in her face and
calling her a terrorist etc. I intervened verbally and he turned on me,
waving his empty bottle by the neck at me. Fortunately he wasn't too
pissed for a bit of reason. I was much bigger than him, he was in a
public place with cctv, the cosequences of bottling me etc. I could see
these flicker across his eyes, he glanced at the nearest camera.

He then became emollient and unctuously friendly, calling me
alternatively 'sir' and 'mate', I decided to be his mate indeed.
Fortunately he did not get on the bus. I did get a smile from the girl
though she was very embarrassed by the incident.

Peter
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