Ready to crash and burn - I never learn

Ray found my last post disturbing, which surprised me some, but if he thought so maybe some other people did too.

I thought the whole thing was mostly a harmless incident during a night of drunken hi-jinx. I mean I wasn't picking a fight with the guy. My comments about how I could have kicked his ass were mostly facetious, I wasn't about to fight over the right to drink a beer on the street, but I didn't think he was either. In the end all I did was call this guys bluff.

Maybe that's only obvious if you really know me well. I don't get in fights. I haven't been in a fight since high school and even then it was only because someone kicked me in the nuts - I thought I was well within my rights to retaliate at that point.

On Friday night, we were just really surprised that this dude got so wound up about two guys sneaking beers out onto the street. Maybe the cops would get a little upset if it were a general practise for him to let people walk out with beer, but even they wouldn't ask him to chase someone down the block.

Or was it disturbing because I made fun of him for being short? I don't normally make fun of people for something like that, but the situation was really weird, it felt kind of like a Seinfeld episode with Mickey and Kramer. I wouldn't have called the guy a munchkin to his face, but now that it's over and I'm talking to friends, I kind of felt like taking a liberty or two to broaden the comedic value of the story was fair play even if it is in admittedly bad taste.

I don't know where I'm going with all this. I guess I just wanted to let everyone know that my brother and I aren't total savages, if that's the impression that I gave then I went a little overboard with my story.

Chris

Addendum to above:

The delete post button on trip's Content Management page says that if you click on it that the post in question will be "gone forever." But that's not really true is it? Because if I wrote it, and someone else read it and remembers it, then it's not really gone at all is it? It might not be there forever, but it still lives on if only in memory, impressions, and opinions of others. Those things are a lot harder to delete than html.

I say this because I just got a lightning fast e-mail response to the above from Carter. I'm glad she wrote it. I'd rather hear criticism than let it go unsaid. Reading it felt kind of like watching through the eyes of someone else as they stare into your soul. I didn't like the view.