How old were you......

[Pioneer1]

 

....when you realized that fighting was primarily a young man's sport?

 

I went back to Detroit yesterday to handle some family business and happened to see an old man squaring off with some young cats inside a cellphone store.
They were grinning and trying to brush him off but he kept insisting for some beef.
One of them turned around and braced himself and when the old dude threw a punch he simply stepped back to avoid it and the old man lost his balance, fell, and knocked over a display case in the store.

Needless to say the younger dudes all had a laugh and I'm sure atleast one of them had a cell phone to record the incident as is often the cases today.

I don't know what happened after that.
I don't know if he stayed down or got back up to act a bigger fool and they ended up stomping him.
30 years ago I may have stayed around to watch, but not now....not today.
It wouldn't be worth it and I really didn't have much interest in it as I was too busy trying to get other business taken care of before crossing the state again.

But I've seen many similar events when older men THINK they can fight and do what they did back in highschool and end up on their ass.

[ProfD]

9 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

....when you realized that fighting was primarily a young man's sport?

About 12.

 

It got real at around 16 when n8gglets started using tools instead of throwing hands.

 

9 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

One of them turned around and braced himself and when the old dude threw a punch he simply stepped back to avoid it and the old man lost his balance, fell, and knocked over a display case in the store.

But I've seen many similar events when older men THINK they can fight and do what they did back in highschool and end up on their ass.

Reads like an old fool. He had no business trying to fight. Should have been at the crib with his ole lady.

[Pioneer1]

ProfD

 

 

It got real at around 16 when n8gglets started using tools instead of throwing hands.

 

Some were using them younger than that.
I remember back in the early 80s some kids were bringing guns to school.
Not many, but a few.

 

 

Reads like an old fool. He had no business trying to fight. Should have been at the crib with his ole lady.

 

He looked like he was in his 70s or maybe 80s.
But in HIS mind he probably was in his 20s or 30s...lol.
 

[ProfD]

1 hour ago, Pioneer1 said:

It got real at around 16 when n8gglets started using tools instead of throwing hands.

 

Some were using them younger than that.
I remember back in the early 80s some kids were bringing guns to school.
Not many, but a few.

No doubt. My point was that no matter how nice we were throwing hands as young dudes, once the tools came out, it negated hand combat. 

 

1 hour ago, Pioneer1 said:

Reads like an old fool. He had no business trying to fight. Should have been at the crib with his ole lady.

 

He looked like he was in his 70s or maybe 80s.
But in HIS mind he probably was in his 20s or 30s...lol.

I wonder how some people are allowed to live a long life being foolishness while  others who are intelligent & wise die sooner.

 

Clearly, the old fool isn't serving a purpose at this point in his life.

[Pioneer1]

8 minutes ago, ProfD said:

 

Clearly, the old fool isn't serving a purpose at this point in his life.

Sometimes I wonder if some people's purpose in this world is to serve as an example of who NOT to be and what NOT to do.

Want to know what happens when you don't finish school?
Look at THAT man sitting over there.

That's his purpose.
For children to look at as a reminder to get their education.


Want to know what happens when you use drugs or join a gang?
Look at your cousin or brother.

That was this purpose.
For somebody to look at so they wouldn't go down the same path.....so they didn't and ended up great.


And perhaps the same can be applied to certain groups............

If you want an example of what happens when you don't take care of your snitches and sell-outs....look at THOSE people over there.
If you want an example of what happens when you raise strong daughters and weak sons....look at THOSE people over there.

[ProfD]

8 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

Sometimes I wonder if some people's purpose in this world is to serve as an example of who NOT to be and what NOT to do.

Such could be the case but for so many people to end up in a similar situation every generation leads me to beiieve it's *normal* to have dysfunctional people too. 

[Pioneer1]

5 minutes ago, ProfD said:

Such could be the case but for so many people to end up in a similar situation every generation leads me to beiieve it's *normal* to have dysfunctional people too. 

Yes.
Nature provides examples.

They serve as an incentive for you to NOT be like them and dysfunctional yourself.


However to keep it real......
I think this society is making a lot of dysfunctional people far beyond the "normal" rate that may occur in nature.

 

[ProfD]

15 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

However to keep it real......
I think this society is making a lot of dysfunctional people far beyond the "normal" rate that may occur in nature.

IMO, dysfunction breeds more of its own kind. Society normalizes it.

[Pioneer1]

7 minutes ago, ProfD said:

IMO, dysfunction breeds more of its own kind. Society normalizes it.

When I'm out and about the society and look at whole GROUPS of dysfunctional people on the street, sometimes I think of what you said about dysfunctional people breeding with eachother and producing MORE dysfunction...lol.
 

[Troy]

I was in junior high school around 11 or 12. All of us kids used to fight at that age and younger. But I avoided fights because the kids that want to fight me, were gangs and I didn’t have any kind of back up and I wasn’t down to catch up beating from a bunch of other dudes. 
 

I remember this one punk walk by me in the hall and we collided and his notebook fell down and he told me to pick it up. I was like why and this girl I liked was a witness and this guy was in a gang I could’ve easily have beat him in a fight but again he was a tough guy cause he had his boys. I picked up the book and kept moving. That guy is probably in jail now. 

[Pioneer1]

7 minutes ago, Troy said:

I remember this one punk walk by me in the hall and we collided and his notebook fell down and he told me to pick it up. I was like why and this girl I liked was a witness and this guy was in a gang I could’ve easily have beat him in a fight but again he was a tough guy cause he had his boys. I picked up the book and kept moving. That guy is probably in jail now. 

Lol...so what happened with the girl you liked?
Did you two ever communicate after that incident?