In article , G.R. Patterson III
wrote:

I think you'd better go back to the "lucky I apologized" line. Probably
some part of your brain was evaluating the consequences of a well-aimed
kick to the nose and just how easy it would be to deliver such a kick
to a belligerent inn-keeper as he's trying to get out the door of a
Piper. Betcha the guy on the outside of that door had already worked
that out, too.

Yet another reason to own a high-wing!