Having achieved a "certain age" I can confirm the preference not to fight, the absolute refusal to quit or fight "fair". My fighting instructor said " Don't mess with old guys, they're pissed off at their wives, their kids or their jobs or something else and they're only too happy to put some of that anger on you" Boat Guy
I must confess to belonging to that class of 'gentlemen' ... I have instructed several young men that I am acquainted with, that , 'they should never be deceived into believing that youth and vigor will ever defeat experience and treachery...'
I was told as a young man never to get into a fight with an old man, he knows all the dirty tricks and he's got nothing to lose.
ReplyDeleteMark D
The version I heard went something like, "Don't eff with old guys. If they're to old to fight back and too slow to run away, they'll just shoot you."
ReplyDeleteBeware the quiet man. He's already killed you ten different times in his head.
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Having achieved a "certain age" I can confirm the preference not to fight, the absolute refusal to quit or fight "fair". My fighting instructor said " Don't mess with old guys, they're pissed off at their wives, their kids or their jobs or something else and they're only too happy to put some of that anger on you"
ReplyDeleteBoat Guy
I must confess to belonging to that class of 'gentlemen' ...
ReplyDeleteI have instructed several young men that I am acquainted with, that , 'they should never be deceived into believing that youth and vigor will ever defeat experience and treachery...'