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Allright, so heres what happened. Im putting this here mostly for a quick link so that i can tell people what the fuck happened.
So here we go.
So last night, me and my friend zach decide to have this cool horror movie fest. We get 'Silent hill', 'open water', 'severed: Forest of zombies' and 'dungeons and dragons: wrath of the dragon god'. All good stuff. But yeah, i invite joey, and he comes over and we watch two of the movies, and decide to get eats. We all agree that we wanna go to a sit down joint where we can chat, and we go to norms. Now, this entire time joey's been texting on his phone. We get to the restaurant, and he completely zones out. Me and zach ignore it for a while, but after a while we get annoyed, and ask him to like, either step outside or in the lounge, or put the phone away, which he completely ignores. We blow it off, and keep chatting, and after a while, we try to say something to joey again, to which he responds:
'Hey! im busy! leave me alone!'
now zachs generally a very prideful person, and he just gets up and leaves at this point. I stick around for about five minutes in complete and utter silence, and then leave as well, and go meet zach in the car. We chat for a bit, and decide to find a drive through, and we start to drive off.
As we're driving off, joey comes out of the place kinda pissed. He comes into the car saying, 'wtf? why did you guys leave?' and i tell him pretty flatly that we felt that he was being really rude, and we didnt wanna sit there while he was acting like that. He blows us off saying that:
A. We're overreacting, and that we could just ignore him, and have conversation between ourselves and just let him be.
and B. Etiquitte is this made up set of rules, that stupid people follow because they cant think for themselves, and that it should have no basis in us getting offended by him.
So that gets me kinda riled up, and i start getting pretty pissed off cause we get offended, and he completely blows us off and calls us crazy. so im pissed, and im yellin, and i ask zach to pull over so i can blow off some steam, and i walk around for a bit. once i get back in the car, joey starts up again and i get pissed off again, but i manage to cool down, and try to level, apologizing for blowing up, and just telling him that we felt what he did was really really rude, and that it was just really uncalled for, to which he responds that i apparently have serious anger problems, and should seek professional help.
yeah, that kinda pisses me off again, and we go at it more, and it goes on and on, and i eventually just say fuck it, and that its not worth the bother, where he responds some snappy ass comment, which to me indicates that hes just going to not talk to me for two months again, and i call him on it, and he concedes, saying that no, hes probably not going to talk to someone who has such apparent anger problems.
So im about as pissed off as ive ever been, im just dumbfounded by this whole scenario. we get to zachs house, and we step outside the cars, and we start it up again, yelling it out in the street. Zach goes to the bathroom. After a while, in the midst of my rant, joey just completely blows me off, and starts to leave. With me, and what ive gone through with him, that was kinda the final straw. At that point, i was really not going to permit what happened for those recent two months to happen again, and go through that grief a second time. So yeah...
***warning, dont read further if you dont want to hear about Tyler being an idiot: Explicit content***
So, as hes walking away, i ask him if we're going to go through this whole shit storm again, and that if hes really going to walk out in the middle of this, and he tells me to fuck off and that im a psycho.
So yeah, i ran and tackled him. We wrestled for a bit, me getting the upper hand, and he asked me 'are you done? will you let me go and let me go home?', to which i saw no other option but to let him go, which i did.
the second i let him go, he comes at me, takes me to the ground, and starts to choke me out, yelling at me if ill stop this, and if im done, and if im going to let him go home. I cant really respond, due to his arm around my throat and the whole lack of air thing, so i just continue to try to get him off of me.
At this point, a car drive by and asks us if we need any help, and joey says 'hey! this guy tried to mug me! he jumped me as i was trying to get into my car!'. They just kinda drive off, realizing that joey had the 'mugger' under control. Talking to the people in the car, joey relaxed his grip a bit, and i managed to get enough air to roll over and get him off of me. We go for a bit more, and i eventually get the other hand again, when zach comes out, and joey starts screaming bloody murder so that a neighbor or something comes out. I let him go once he starts screaming, and he gets up and leaves, burning out with his car, and zach takes me home so that i can ice my throat and crash.
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So yeah, in conclusion:
I am not proud of what i did. I havent been in a fight since elementary school, and normally i detest violence and anger and all its ugly little cousins. I realize that it was stupid, and that a bigger man would have probably found a btter recourse. I did not.
However, i do not regret what i did. I feel that i am better off now than i would have been if i had let this ooze out for another three months of my life, being left completely unsaid. I also dont think what i did was wrong, as i have no problem with fighting. Now, that may seem in contradiction with what i said before, but i see fighting as more of a sport. Violence is meant to hurt someone. Me wrestling with him in the dirt isnt really that violent(however, choking someone out kinda crosses that line, but im gonna ignore that little bit).
so yeah, thats it. Thats what happened. Now i dont have to tell the damned story anymore. Huzzah.
So here we go.
So last night, me and my friend zach decide to have this cool horror movie fest. We get 'Silent hill', 'open water', 'severed: Forest of zombies' and 'dungeons and dragons: wrath of the dragon god'. All good stuff. But yeah, i invite joey, and he comes over and we watch two of the movies, and decide to get eats. We all agree that we wanna go to a sit down joint where we can chat, and we go to norms. Now, this entire time joey's been texting on his phone. We get to the restaurant, and he completely zones out. Me and zach ignore it for a while, but after a while we get annoyed, and ask him to like, either step outside or in the lounge, or put the phone away, which he completely ignores. We blow it off, and keep chatting, and after a while, we try to say something to joey again, to which he responds:
'Hey! im busy! leave me alone!'
now zachs generally a very prideful person, and he just gets up and leaves at this point. I stick around for about five minutes in complete and utter silence, and then leave as well, and go meet zach in the car. We chat for a bit, and decide to find a drive through, and we start to drive off.
As we're driving off, joey comes out of the place kinda pissed. He comes into the car saying, 'wtf? why did you guys leave?' and i tell him pretty flatly that we felt that he was being really rude, and we didnt wanna sit there while he was acting like that. He blows us off saying that:
A. We're overreacting, and that we could just ignore him, and have conversation between ourselves and just let him be.
and B. Etiquitte is this made up set of rules, that stupid people follow because they cant think for themselves, and that it should have no basis in us getting offended by him.
So that gets me kinda riled up, and i start getting pretty pissed off cause we get offended, and he completely blows us off and calls us crazy. so im pissed, and im yellin, and i ask zach to pull over so i can blow off some steam, and i walk around for a bit. once i get back in the car, joey starts up again and i get pissed off again, but i manage to cool down, and try to level, apologizing for blowing up, and just telling him that we felt what he did was really really rude, and that it was just really uncalled for, to which he responds that i apparently have serious anger problems, and should seek professional help.
yeah, that kinda pisses me off again, and we go at it more, and it goes on and on, and i eventually just say fuck it, and that its not worth the bother, where he responds some snappy ass comment, which to me indicates that hes just going to not talk to me for two months again, and i call him on it, and he concedes, saying that no, hes probably not going to talk to someone who has such apparent anger problems.
So im about as pissed off as ive ever been, im just dumbfounded by this whole scenario. we get to zachs house, and we step outside the cars, and we start it up again, yelling it out in the street. Zach goes to the bathroom. After a while, in the midst of my rant, joey just completely blows me off, and starts to leave. With me, and what ive gone through with him, that was kinda the final straw. At that point, i was really not going to permit what happened for those recent two months to happen again, and go through that grief a second time. So yeah...
***warning, dont read further if you dont want to hear about Tyler being an idiot: Explicit content***
So, as hes walking away, i ask him if we're going to go through this whole shit storm again, and that if hes really going to walk out in the middle of this, and he tells me to fuck off and that im a psycho.
So yeah, i ran and tackled him. We wrestled for a bit, me getting the upper hand, and he asked me 'are you done? will you let me go and let me go home?', to which i saw no other option but to let him go, which i did.
the second i let him go, he comes at me, takes me to the ground, and starts to choke me out, yelling at me if ill stop this, and if im done, and if im going to let him go home. I cant really respond, due to his arm around my throat and the whole lack of air thing, so i just continue to try to get him off of me.
At this point, a car drive by and asks us if we need any help, and joey says 'hey! this guy tried to mug me! he jumped me as i was trying to get into my car!'. They just kinda drive off, realizing that joey had the 'mugger' under control. Talking to the people in the car, joey relaxed his grip a bit, and i managed to get enough air to roll over and get him off of me. We go for a bit more, and i eventually get the other hand again, when zach comes out, and joey starts screaming bloody murder so that a neighbor or something comes out. I let him go once he starts screaming, and he gets up and leaves, burning out with his car, and zach takes me home so that i can ice my throat and crash.
*** end of explicit content***
So yeah, in conclusion:
I am not proud of what i did. I havent been in a fight since elementary school, and normally i detest violence and anger and all its ugly little cousins. I realize that it was stupid, and that a bigger man would have probably found a btter recourse. I did not.
However, i do not regret what i did. I feel that i am better off now than i would have been if i had let this ooze out for another three months of my life, being left completely unsaid. I also dont think what i did was wrong, as i have no problem with fighting. Now, that may seem in contradiction with what i said before, but i see fighting as more of a sport. Violence is meant to hurt someone. Me wrestling with him in the dirt isnt really that violent(however, choking someone out kinda crosses that line, but im gonna ignore that little bit).
so yeah, thats it. Thats what happened. Now i dont have to tell the damned story anymore. Huzzah.