Knock him down or not ?

[TX69]

I mulled this over again and want to take another run at it. Skill in a conflict is important but motivation is more important. This punk is from your friend's family and you will be less intent on smashing him into bite size pieces because of that. Secondly, you are an adult and he's a snot. The adult says "I shouldn't be doing this." The snot doesn't care one way or another. You have two powerful enemies against your success right there. Let it lay.

I'm an old buzzard long past his fighting days. Here's a response that I've used several times:

"Son, you CAN'T possibly beat me.
If you whip me, you have to go around bragging that you beat up an old man,
If I whip YOU, you'll have to live with the knowledge that an old man whipped your asX!"

Just a thought.

Flash

From readint he respnses I am not sure where it was determined that I am "old" lol? Maybe I post that way but I am not that old.

A cuple things have happened that made me ask. My friend has an awesome home where he and his wife have people over and that's why I have been over there. On one occasion a few months into going over his sons was goofing around with his father and they started wrestling (standing up) in the hallway. After the father submits the son gets bored and starts to half jog away. He is jogging past me (I was watching all of this) as if he is leaving and diverts to reach at me and do a half-hearted nipple twister move. Although this was an extremely immature and odd thing to do on his part I did nothing but stand there as he then ran off. His father said nothing.

The second event was recently after church in the parking lot. This one was just verbal but notable. This guy had thrown a few comments out in the past about being bigger than his friends this and that but nothing out of the ordinary. He did say a few things at me at their home but I never took much notice. This time he openly (he does this only when his family is around) made a verbal threat (jokingly) that he would take me on. All I did was turn to face him and kept my eyes on his. He back peddled some and then left to get into his car.

At this point I have made the decision to say something to his father. If I don't and something happens I will always be the bad guy. Good people are extremely hard to find and I don't wish to lose a friend due to his sons immature behavior.

 

[just jk]

From readint he respnses I am not sure where it was determined that I am "old" lol? Maybe I post that way but I am not that old.

A cuple things have happened that made me ask. My friend has an awesome home where he and his wife have people over and that's why I have been over there. On one occasion a few months into going over his sons was goofing around with his father and they started wrestling (standing up) in the hallway. After the father submits the son gets bored and starts to half jog away. He is jogging past me (I was watching all of this) as if he is leaving and diverts to reach at me and do a half-hearted nipple twister move. Although this was an extremely immature and odd thing to do on his part I did nothing but stand there as he then ran off. His father said nothing.

The second event was recently after church in the parking lot. This one was just verbal but notable. This guy had thrown a few comments out in the past about being bigger than his friends this and that but nothing out of the ordinary. He did say a few things at me at their home but I never took much notice. This time he openly (he does this only when his family is around) made a verbal threat (jokingly) that he would take me on. All I did was turn to face him and kept my eyes on his. He back peddled some and then left to get into his car.

At this point I have made the decision to say something to his father. If I don't and something happens I will always be the bad guy. Good people are extremely hard to find and I don't wish to lose a friend due to his sons immature behavior.

church huh?

there's your answer.....

 

[Charlie]

Heed the advice of those that say don't get involved. A 20 yr. old should know better and be past those types of middle school behaviors. Don't bring yourself down to his level. Smile, be polite, and tell him you don't participate in childish games. That said, if he lays his hands on you, kick the shit out of him.

 

[JColumbus]

My brother in law is 9 years younger than me. A couple of years ago, over video chat, he was showing off his "muscles" and told my brothers and I he can kick our asses. Soon after, he showed up at my door and said hi. I shook his hand like a man, asked him how he was doing, and went on with the visit.

Point is, it's too silly to even acknowledge. Negative consequences from acting out, originate from silly ideas. Don't exercise the idea and more than likely, nothing will come of his silliness.

Sounds to me like he's just being a silly guy. So even if he does put his hands on you, it will likely be in a way that you can knock his arm away and tell him to cut the crap.