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Peaceful Warrior
Oct. 19th, 2009 09:48 pmI broke up a fight today at the junior college on my way to office hours.
I had just walked past a group of maybe half a dozen guys hanging out on the patio of a building smoking and chatting, and after I stepped inside I heard a scuffle behind me. Turning around, I saw two of them on the ground attacking each other. I stepped back outside, and another guy in the group stepped forward; we each grabbed one of the fighters and pulled them apart. While we held them away from each other, I tried to talk them down; their attitude changed somewhat when they realized I was a teacher. ("Wait, you're not a teacher, are you?" asked one of them at one point. "In fact I am.")
Anyway, as far as I could tell (they weren't very interested in sharing information) one of them had been trash-talking the other, who then attacked him. I mentioned that that's no way to resolve an argument, and the aggressor's buddies convinced him to go sit down in the cafeteria for a while. I advised the other guy to avoid aggravating potentially violent people, and suggested he go somewhere else and stay away from the other fellow for a while.
I had no idea how high on adrenaline I was throughout the whole thing until it wore off a minute later and I nearly collapsed. Bizarre experience overall. The rest of the day went pretty well though.
Oh, did I mention I was wearing my badass longcoat and wizard hat at the time?
I had just walked past a group of maybe half a dozen guys hanging out on the patio of a building smoking and chatting, and after I stepped inside I heard a scuffle behind me. Turning around, I saw two of them on the ground attacking each other. I stepped back outside, and another guy in the group stepped forward; we each grabbed one of the fighters and pulled them apart. While we held them away from each other, I tried to talk them down; their attitude changed somewhat when they realized I was a teacher. ("Wait, you're not a teacher, are you?" asked one of them at one point. "In fact I am.")
Anyway, as far as I could tell (they weren't very interested in sharing information) one of them had been trash-talking the other, who then attacked him. I mentioned that that's no way to resolve an argument, and the aggressor's buddies convinced him to go sit down in the cafeteria for a while. I advised the other guy to avoid aggravating potentially violent people, and suggested he go somewhere else and stay away from the other fellow for a while.
I had no idea how high on adrenaline I was throughout the whole thing until it wore off a minute later and I nearly collapsed. Bizarre experience overall. The rest of the day went pretty well though.
Oh, did I mention I was wearing my badass longcoat and wizard hat at the time?
