Fisticuffs

Have you ever been in a fight? I don't mean a domestic or a slanging match, I mean a punch up. Why?
Nearest I got was having a hair-pulling match at school!

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Oh god no! Hate fighting. Would run a mile. Women fighting? Disgusting!

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I had quite a few fights when I was at school. I was the second smallest in the whole school and seen as a bullying target. I had to fight to defend myself. They soon learned to pick on someone else.

I was attacked by an intruder in my garden a few years ago.

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Did you retaliate?

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I assume you are referring to the garden attack..... I did defend myself.

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Good show Sir!

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Yes, a girl ripped my pinafore dress so I threw crab apples at her then we scratched and pulled hair
I was about five and have been a pacifist ever since

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I fight with words not fists, it usually works out if others are willing to listen without taking sides

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Once, when I was on my way from the hospital to a Health Centre for a meeting, I thought I could hear a cat in distress. As I passed the end of an alley I saw a skinhead type person with a kitten held by it's scruff and he was rubbing it's face against the brick wall, I shouted at him to stop - and he didn't. Next thing I knew, I had dropped my brief case, grabbed him by the shirt front and smacked him in the mouth - hard enough to draw blood! Fortunately for me he was too astonished to retaliate and ran off.

The kitten trotted off into a nearby garden and sat washing it's face.

I went on to the meeting - was asked to explain my bruised hand - and was reprimanded for bad behaviour!

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Couldn't avoid a few skirmishes where I grew up, but in general, I was a "Lover not a Fighter".