What fun it was today. Minding my own business this morning , I was in a local shop buying my hubby his favourite bread rolls when I heard shouting outside. When I went out to investigate, as did every one else in the surrounding area. There was this full blown fight going on. Two grown men having a good old fashioned Hollywood style fight! People stopped what they were doing and just stared. I, being a people watcher, looked around. Firstly some trainee bus drivers in their break were in fits of laughter. Some kids standing not far from the action were mimiking the fight and unfortuately the language too. As for the ladies shopping they did seem to enjoy it as well.
When at last it broke up, one of the men flouncing of in a huff ( well you would be in a huff if someone had been punching you in the face!) and headed for the bus stop talking to himself, and rubbing his very red face. All the people who had been watching it all just returned to their business as if nothing had happened. We don`t get to see many fights hereabouts so it`s not as if they are commonplace.
But this leads me back to the first time I saw anything like a fight. I was about five at the time and coming home from shopping with my mum on the bus. As we passed a bus stop there were two women hitting each other with shopping bags. I remember being totally stunned. Grown-ups didn`t behave like that. Older women than my mum, wearing headscarves , beating the daylights out of each other for whatever reason. This was etched on my memory on that tender age and has stayed with me all my life. Even now when I pass that bus stop I always think of it. I hate the thought of fighting, got into one as a child and it hurt ! Never again, I don`t like pain ! ........
3 comments:
Have never been in a fight in my life, am glad to say. Realise that it's not always possible to avoid them, but have been lucky so far! Wow, two grown men having a proper fist fight - that's something you don't see every day. Wonder what caused it. Am thinking there was probably a woman involved somewhere along the line!
Sara x
It must have been a sight to see two grown men fighting in the street like that. I don't like fights either, but I would stop and stare if two people were going at it. I used to fight boys when I was a child, and I always got whipped.LOL I did not like that either. God Bless
A proper fight! Not someone just beating someone up, now that is something to see. I do not like fighting because it mostly consists of some one getting beat up beyond a normal fisticuffs.
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