Diary: Bar Fights

[degringolade]

Thistle and Bug

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In a long ago time, I was a participant in three (3) bar fights.  The relationships between the Army and the Marines have always been tense when you are dealing with the testosterone driven lower ranks and this is usually played out in arenas where alcohol is served and two of the fights were in such an arena.  The third was in a biker bar in Houston.  The third was much more serious and cost me one of my bicuspids.

But my memory of such things is that they were desultory affairs and quite brief especially in the case of the intra-service fights, those were almost pro forma and finished quickly with participant distanced from each other and the bystanders acting as peacekeepers.  The biker bar was a different story completely.  My going into that bar was a serious mistake and I was quite lucky to get out of the bar with as little damage as I did.  

Obviously, out buddy Donnie has never been in a bar fight, so I am watching to see the outcome.  I have a feeling that he thinks the way that I thought when I was LARPing (I really like that meme) with Marines in Virginia long ago.  When you fought there, you were almost certain that the contest would be over quickly and certain rules would be observed.  Again the biker bar was a different story.  

So which fight is Donnie in?