To fight or not to fight...
Let's establish this fact first: when one is turning right and there's someone in the opposite lane turning left, one has the right of way because the one turning left at the opposite side will cross into the opposite person's lane. (Duh, everyone knows this).
So anyway, I am the one who was turning right today. This other vehicle was really intent on turning left and tried really hard to do so, but I got in first. Then, I stopped my vehicle to drop off a person who I was driving home.
The driver of the other vehicle then was very belligerent and I had already tried to avoid him, but he insisted on getting out of his vehicle and wanting to speak with me (more like yell at me). (This person was about five foot eight inches, Asian American, medium build). So I spoke to him rather calmly and pretending to not notice what had happened.
"You don't realize what you did?" Was the response. I didn't answer. He said "fuckhead" and basically drove off.
Now, this situation would have been a bit different had I gotten out of the vehicle (for obvious reasons).
Why did I choose not to get out of the vehicle and confront him?
1. "Equal force should be met with equal threat." My years of martial arts training would probably have come down on him quite hard. (I assume that he doesn't really have many years of training because he was first belligerent and confrontational. Most martial artists would have let it go).
2. I felt that I had more to lose than he did. This happened at a place very close to Saint John's University and if I fought him and the police came, we would both be arrested and I would have been ejected from the President's Society.
3. I was in a good mood. It's spring break, guys!
So anyway, what do you think? Should I have exited my vehicle and had a higher chance of entering a fight?
My brother says that I am a waste of martial arts training because his rationale was "why didn't you fight him? You train practically everyday anyway, you're a waste of Kung Fu!"
My other friend asked, "is your training really that good?" This got me to think that I should "test it out" because although I really do feel that the training is great, I really don't know just how great.
I understand that there's a rationale among Asian Americans that we should just fight first and ask questions later. But one has to think about the consequences, too...
I am going to ask my master and see what he thinks.
So anyway, I am the one who was turning right today. This other vehicle was really intent on turning left and tried really hard to do so, but I got in first. Then, I stopped my vehicle to drop off a person who I was driving home.
The driver of the other vehicle then was very belligerent and I had already tried to avoid him, but he insisted on getting out of his vehicle and wanting to speak with me (more like yell at me). (This person was about five foot eight inches, Asian American, medium build). So I spoke to him rather calmly and pretending to not notice what had happened.
"You don't realize what you did?" Was the response. I didn't answer. He said "fuckhead" and basically drove off.
Now, this situation would have been a bit different had I gotten out of the vehicle (for obvious reasons).
Why did I choose not to get out of the vehicle and confront him?
1. "Equal force should be met with equal threat." My years of martial arts training would probably have come down on him quite hard. (I assume that he doesn't really have many years of training because he was first belligerent and confrontational. Most martial artists would have let it go).
2. I felt that I had more to lose than he did. This happened at a place very close to Saint John's University and if I fought him and the police came, we would both be arrested and I would have been ejected from the President's Society.
3. I was in a good mood. It's spring break, guys!
So anyway, what do you think? Should I have exited my vehicle and had a higher chance of entering a fight?
My brother says that I am a waste of martial arts training because his rationale was "why didn't you fight him? You train practically everyday anyway, you're a waste of Kung Fu!"
My other friend asked, "is your training really that good?" This got me to think that I should "test it out" because although I really do feel that the training is great, I really don't know just how great.
I understand that there's a rationale among Asian Americans that we should just fight first and ask questions later. But one has to think about the consequences, too...
I am going to ask my master and see what he thinks.
posted by Marcus at 10:37 PM
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