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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Lake Oswego, OR
Posts: 6,252
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First. I love Higgin's story. Awesome. Should be in a movie. It is poetic.
Me? I got blind punched coming off the dance floor when I was in High School at some underage club. Landed on my a55. The worst part? I was on some sort of med and went skiing that day, my face was puffed out huge and weird. And some idiot has to hit me. I never knew who or why? Whatever. I probably earned it some other time. I was a difficult youth.
But, a different time coming from the same underage club, some guy starts kicking my buddy's knee as we are walking to the car in the early am. None of us had ever seen him prior and we had zero idea what the heck he was doing. There were four or five of us. One of him. He was average to small. I am six foot and athletic. I asked some random girl who was standing around to call the cops because he seemed sort of insane and I was concerned for our safety. (She ended up being with him.). Since I had made a leadership type move, the guy gets in my face. My Mom had made a point of reading me an article that very day about stabbings in the downtown area. Which is exactly where we were. I was acutely focused on not getting stabbed. The guy got into my space, I grabbed his shoulders and kneed him in the balls. He dropped like a rock and bled a little and broke his watch. While he was on the ground looking up at me he said "had enough?" It was hard not to laugh too much at that. We walked off.
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