I have only ever been involved in one physical altercation in my life money, as I consider myself a lover not a fighter, it was when I was a apprentice carpenter, I was bullied to the bejessus, so bad that I thought about stepping off a train and ending it, anyway, things came to a head when one of the carpenters I worked with decided to have a bit more fun and started firing nails in my back with a nail gun, I completely lost it, got him in a bear hug, threw him to the ground and proceeded to kick him in the face with my steel cap boots, broke his jaw in several places and nearly killed him, not my finest hour, but it certainly gave the message to my fellow colleagues not to mess with me further....I’ve got a gold watch too BEISH, that would be as close as it would get
When I was 30 I stood up to a big aboriginal bloke who was my ganger (boss of the gang) when I worked in the gas company. Black Max they called him, he was about 6’3” and around 120kg. Ex footy player, everyone was scared of him…. They reckoned he hit a bloke so hard in a pub in Cardiff (a rough pub) that the bloke had blood coming out of his ears.
I had to work with the prick and him and the other bloke in the gang used to drink three or four large bottles of beer every day at lunch time
I fucken hated working with them, I used to jog around any footy oval we were working near just to get away from them. I was training kickboxers at the time, and he was twice my size. One day I walked straight past them and into the foreman’s office and told him I wasn’t going to work with them any longer. The foreman said I had to.
On the way back to the truck Black fucken Max told me to get in the truck or he’d foot me up the arse. I said I’ll foot you up the fucken arse…. He said what did you say, I said you fucken heard, and I walked straight up to him with one thing in mind, which was the second he moved I was going to kick his shin as hard as I could with my steel cap boots and after that whatever was going to happen was going happen
The big fuckwit backed down and soon after they moved me to another gang. Doesn’t matter how big they are
Sorry for the offtopic folks!!