[quote]TheBodyGuard wrote:
[quote]BlakeAJackson wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
^Agreed…which is why no one can claim it is WRONG to teach your kid who is boss by boxing with him when you are a world class professional.
If Tiger Wood’s kids challenge him one day and he takes them to a golf course to teach them who is boss, he is parenting wrong?
The ONLY valid argument here is if you are simply against all physical discipline…otherwise, let parents raise their own freaking kids and maybe we will get loss self entitled teenagers who think they can talk back to every teacher or person of authority because they have no fear of the consequences.
And again…we tried to discuss this all at first.[/quote]
Had a funny interaction with some 14-15yr old kids at the movie theater over Christmas. My wife and I went to see Hugo in 3d. The movie is about to start and these two boys come in and sit behind us. The one leans forward and starts talking to me. " hey can I borrow your movie ticket my friend threw ours out and the lady at the front said we can’t come back in without it. I want to get a drink." I replied, “sorry I am not going to give you my ticket.” It was clear to me that they were sneaking into the film and wanted my ticket to go get glasses. He replies with some attitude, “why can’t you just give me you ticket?” So I asked him if he had his 3G glasses? He says I asked you a damn question.
I couldn’t believe my ears. I am 30 years old 5"10 252lbs at the moment with slightly over 18 inch arms. Clearly not in his age group and not one of his buddies. So I stood up leaned over the seat and very nicely asked him if he could see how big I was. My wife begging me to ignore it and that I was over reacting only help confirm to these boys that they may have just made a big mistake. The kid that swore at me nodded yes confirming he saw how big I was, I asked if he thought he should be careful how he spoke to me? He looked confused, so I said you swore at me didn’t you? Yes, I am sorry i shouldn’t have done that he replied. I said ok but you are not as smart as you think or I am not as dumb as you thought. I sat back down, they quietly got up and left.
The fact that he thought he was going to get over on me, the theater, and that when called on it he thought he could curse at me to intimidate me is what pissed me off. I would have never spoke to any adult, especially one my size in that way when I was in high school. [/quote]
Your wife is right. You did over-react.
And did you really need to provide your body measurements to describe your encounter with teenagers?
And please bring that shit around my way where a teenager don’t give a fuck how big you are and will have you chalked on the sidewalk. For real.
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Yeah because the fact that I was in Sherman oaks didn’t factor in to how I decided to handle the situation. I choose to not go to theater in watts for a reason as well. I lack complete ability to asses a situation. I gave my size to illustrate that I as a high schooler would have never gone up to a stranger, especially of my size and disrespect them. I grew up in Texas though and would have expected an adult to back hand me for that type of shit, and had I went running to my parents I would have expected them to say you deserved it.
I have lived in NJ, we discussed it in another thread, and I made it out alive. I don’t walk around flexing on people or starting fight. I did not swear or even raise my voice when speaking to the kids. I show respect to everyone and expect the same back.
