Drama always goes down on my street at least once or twice a week, it’s inevitable. I've seen full grown men, bar owners I'm assuming, chasing other guys down the street with baseball bats, women fighting with their drunk mates, boyfriends carrying their puking girlfriends on their backs, and the list goes on. So much for the need for television, I've got the best seats to the local entertainment right at my doorsteps. Having said this, I’m not sure whether it’s the park or the river that lures in such trouble makers or the fact that people seem to think no one is around here that always bring the late-night drama.
Recently we’ve been having this particular group of university kids that keep on coming around. The group consists of about 9 guys and 2 girls, one of which always insists on laughing her head off, which only leaves Snickers and I wanting to pop her head off.
It’d be one thing if they sat and joked around in the park at a sensible time but they always seem to come around 2 or 3am. Recently my tutoring has been switched to 6am, so I have to wake up around 5am, meaning that waking up extra early in addition to the already retardedly early morning is certainly not appreciated.
Tonight Snickers thought he’d play the hero. He threw on a pair of shorts, a t-shirt, his hat, and his sandals and headed out the door to go tell them to go home. I was watching by the window and though I didn’t have a clear view of the kids in the park because of the tall trees, I did manage to see a couple of them scramble and hide behind various trees. I assumed it was because they could see Snickers coming down the stairwell.
Anyways…
Out the door he went and over the short park fence he jumped. No sooner had he walked into the park but then I saw his head hit the ground. I had no idea what the heck had just happened but I was convinced one of them had jumped out at Snickers and hit him.
“NO gets away with touching my husband”, I told myself.
So I yelled out, grabbed some clothes and raced out the door still half-naked. My heart was pumping, my fists instantly were clammy; I was sure I was just about to get into a street fight.
Turns out he had slipped on the mud… oh my gosh.
He stood up, told the kids to go home and then we walked back to our house. The kids went home and then we both had a good laugh at the whole situation. I apparently scored brownie points from Snickers for the whole race-down-the-stairs-half-naked fight mode I instantly had sported and he noted that my bed head alone would have worked to scare those kids off… hahaha.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Fight or flight, what route would you take?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Ask advice only of your equals.
Danish Proverb
As the story has it, one day I headed to the opposite side of the globe – the Flipside. I arrived in Korea February 16th, 2005 and thought I’d do a year, then leave. I was wrong. I stayed, launched my first company, Flipside Fitness, and then opened Korea's largest boxing club, Hulk's Boxing (now called Hulk's Club).
After 11.5yrs in Korea, I then picked up one day and returned to Toronto, Canada. But then I left again.
Now I live in the Philippines where I am the CEO and head coach of Empowered Clubhouse, the Philippines' first and only boxing clubhouse exclusively just for women. I also am the founder of the Lil' Sistas Project, CEO and designer of Slay Gear and Baa Baa Black Sheep .Ph.
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