Have you ever bit off more than you could chew ?

leftywoody · #1 11-26-2009, 09:20 PM

1965 , when I was about 13 or 14 years old, we had sheep on our small homestead that we raised for 4-H and also sold wool . I had found out from my younger brother that our neighbor boy had stolen one of our sheep and took it home to his dad and they butchered it . That whole family was raised pretty rough, yet we treated them as good neighbors and friends . He came across the field one day to play with us and I told him to leave and not come back for stealing from us . He proceeded to clean my clock with about 2 jabs and an upper cut . Poor old me didn't expect that . Any way I learned that day, not to come to a fist fight with just a bunch of words and my hands in my pockets . Any of you ever start something that backfired on you ?

**2door** · #2 11-26-2009, 09:30 PM

Lefty,
I'm going to have to give this one some thought... There was a day north of the DMZ that gave me reason to wish I was elsewhere...but that sounds too much like a war story and I won't get into that here. Let me think a bit.
Tom

Elmo · #3 11-26-2009, 10:09 PM

Lefty
One time when I was 16 I got into it with one of my friends. To make a long story short as we were squareing off I pulled my jacket off like the guys in the movies. When I had it about halfway off withboth arms trapped he nailed me on my ear with a hard right. It hurt for weeks. Learned a lesson, try to get the first punch in yourself.
Elmo

fasteddy · #4 11-26-2009, 11:26 PM

Three former wives count?

Steve.

leftywoody · #5 11-27-2009, 05:42 AM

Yes the 3 wives count . I was just curious about the range of stories that this thread might intale . It could be anything from thinking you could ride a horse like Zorro , or wagering on a game and thinking your wife wouldn't care . Or how about standing up to your mom for the first time ?

moonerdizzle · #6 11-27-2009, 09:51 AM

getting talked into a 20 foot gap of death, my face will never be the came after planting on the concrete.

moonerdizzle · #7 11-27-2009, 09:52 AM

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Originally Posted by leftywoody

Yes the 3 wives count . I was just curious about the range of stories that this thread might intale . It could be anything from thinking you could ride a horse like Zorro , or wagering on a game and thinking your wife wouldn't care . Or how about standing up to your mom for the first time ?

i dont even want to think about the first time i stood up to my mom, she wooped the crap outa me.

Bikeguy Joe · #8 11-27-2009, 10:06 AM

O.K., you asked for it...

One day my brother, a friend of ours and myself were riding around in the friends car.
As we drove by this one house, my bro yells out the window at the biker standing there F-U...)(*&^ **&^% ect.ect.

Said friend floors the car and my bro flips the guy off. I asked what that was all about and my bro tells me (long story short) the guy ripped him off for a bad motorcycle battery. 20 dollars.

About this time the guy comes ripping past us in his car and slams on the brakes. Friend goes around the guy, slams on HIS brakes and stops. I thought I would be billy bad balz and jump out and whoop up on the guy just because it was a sunny day.

As I got close to the car, the guy jumps out and points a .25 peewee gun at me and says %$@#!! and starts shooting!

He unloaded the whole clip, and missed me and the friends car with all but on, which hit friends car, adding only a badge of honor.

By now I was livid and pumping 100% adrenaline and I go to charge the guy, and he calmly drops one clip and in one motion takes a second out of his back pocket and zips it into place.

I stopped in my tracks and the guy had the gun right in my face and says "You want to think again?" I said "Yeah." I turned around and walked back to friends car, waiting for the shots that did not come. They were down in the seats and I just said "Let's go." So we did. Nobody said a word for at least 5 minutes.

I was clearly out classed that day.

Finfan · #9 11-27-2009, 10:27 AM

I'll spare the details since it was the typical teenage BS but I decided I was going to stand up to the bully. I am quite convinced my shoulders hit the ground before my butt did!

leftywoody · #10 11-27-2009, 11:10 AM

I too had the raw courage to stand up to a bully that I knew I could whip . He took my baseball cap and threw it on the ground . I yelled at him for doing it and then his older brother came up and pinned me against the baseball fence . He didn't say much , he didn't have to . What he did say was enough to stop me in my tracks and think about an escape route . He did let me go without tearing me to shreds . That would have been easy for him to do . Oh well I got my cap back and only was somewhat humiliated .