stoned just threatened a drunk drug dealer with a baseball bat hows your evening going
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this was actually a pretty interesting experience in retrospect I think the drunk guy was trying to *buy* drugs from another guy in a minivan and the deal was going Poorly when I got outside and asked what was going on I had expected to see someone getting curbstomped. in fact,
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the guy in the van was obviously exasperated, and even more so when the drunk turned around and started moving toward me, asking if I was actually going to hit him with the bat minivan guy: "why you gotta be like this dude"
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lessons: 1. major difference between having a weapon in hand and being ready to use it 2. keeping ones distance from a belligerent opponent is super important 3. modal underclass member way more used to exercising aggression than I am
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Valid. Regarding 1, self-defense received wisdom: only carry a gun if you're entirely prepared to kill someone, because brandishing it might precipitate the need to use it
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Also, I find the calm-abruptly-shifting-to-crazy can work better for non-hoodlums than the usual "hey now, hey what's this all about, hey cut that out, hey I'm getting mad, hey now I'm pretty pissed" thing, because hoodlums will ratchet up that scale ahead of you
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