Sun N Fun Pix -- Better Late than Never!

"Jay Honeck" writes:

In retrospect, however, the next time someone jumps up on my wing without
asking, I'm going to kick his ass -- and THEN apologize.

Your choice -- but wasn't the outcome you actually got, by being nice,
really about the best available? Nobody hurt, not even much yelling.

Yeah, jumping on your wing without asking isn't good, but still; you
decide to kick his ass, and he might kick yours, or he might press
charges. Either outcome seems pretty bad.

(Among other things, I'm a concealed handgun instructor, and we spend
a LOT of time in class talking about the importance of *avoiding*
conflict.)
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Yeah, jumping on your wing without asking isn't good, but still; you
decide to kick his ass, and he might kick yours, or he might press
charges. Either outcome seems pretty bad.

Yeah, you're right, of course. Still, I just can't imagine EVER jumping on
someone's wing without permission.

The bottom line is that HE was taking a big risk jumping on my wing. If I
had been of a different frame of mind, or maybe slightly less tired, I might
have just tossed his little ass into the prop, rather than nicely
apologizing.

Luckily, it all ended well.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" writes:

Yeah, jumping on your wing without asking isn't good, but still; you
decide to kick his ass, and he might kick yours, or he might press
charges. Either outcome seems pretty bad.

Yeah, you're right, of course. Still, I just can't imagine EVER jumping on
someone's wing without permission.

Makes sense.

The bottom line is that HE was taking a big risk jumping on my wing. If I
had been of a different frame of mind, or maybe slightly less tired, I might
have just tossed his little ass into the prop, rather than nicely
apologizing.

Yep, the exact same argument applies to him, too. *He* shouldn't have
done what he did either.

Luckily, it all ended well.

Best all around. As with most things, it takes multiple mistakes /
failures to achieve seriously bad results.
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Jay Honeck wrote:
The bottom line is that HE was taking a big risk jumping on my wing. If I
had been of a different frame of mind, or maybe slightly less tired, I might
have just tossed his little ass into the prop, rather than nicely
apologizing.

I hate to interrupt your chest pounding, but you don't exactly look big
enough to be "tossing" any body any where.



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I hate to interrupt your chest pounding, but you don't exactly look big
enough to be "tossing" any body any where.

Heh. That's what the last guy thought.

Adrenaline is a wondrous thing.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

In article kqLmc.45236$Ik.3117783@attbi_s53, Jay Honeck
wrote:

I hate to interrupt your chest pounding, but you don't exactly look big
enough to be "tossing" any body any where.

Heh. That's what the last guy thought.
Adrenaline is a wondrous thing.

Kinda like that Richard Prior saying, "Fire is a great motivator...
cause when you're on fire, you're motivated to put it out!"

Kinda like that Richard Prior saying, "Fire is a great motivator...
cause when you're on fire, you're motivated to put it out!"

For sure.

I'm always amazed at what adrenaline can do. A recent example: I was
wrestling with my 13 year old son, not long ago, when he accidentally hit me
in, shall we politely say, the "nether" parts.

We were pretty riled up already, really going at it, and -- since we've both
been lifting weights together now every day for the last five months --
we're both in pretty good shape. In my moment of agony and despair, I
grabbed him with one hand by the shoulder, and THREW him completely across
the room.

Now this kid is no lightweight -- he wrestles in the 150 pound class.
Luckily he landed on his head, where no harm could come to him...

Afterward, over a cold pop, both he and I were amazed that this was
physically possible. Under normal circumstances, that move would have put
ME in traction...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay Honeck wrote:

If I
had been of a different frame of mind, or maybe slightly less tired, I might
have just tossed his little ass into the prop, rather than nicely
apologizing.

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.

George Patterson
If you don't tell lies, you never have to remember what you said.

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!