So...an acquaintance of mine was arrested last night. Apparently, he was a little high, a little drunk, and showing off several weapons he carries on him to several attractive girls. They were the following:
A 20-inch knife
A hatchet
2 Throwing knives
some sort of claw fashioned to fir his finger
A high powered BB gun rifle with metal pellets.
some of the booze he drank (he's 18)
Can you believe that? hehe.
Anyone else know of someone exhibiting truly STUPID behavior like that?
It has actually saved me to act stupid once.
I was walking a girl home one day and some guy wanted to show off to his friends and came to me and said "Who are you, I'm going to beat you in the face!". I replied "I'm Nikolaj Bourguignon, nice to meet you", and shook his hand. He mumbled his name, totally taken back by the unexpected answer. A few minutes later he tried again. "Is this your bike, I'm gonna steal it.", and I answered, "No you're not gonna steel it, it's my mothers bike." "Oh, OK.", he answered. Later on, I heard that he had a switchblade on him.
Acting insane to get out of trouble is my trademark. I was walking home at about 11:30 at night. I saw these three black guys. I heard one of them say "Hey, let's go beat up dat big white boy over der" (ME!!!) So, 11:30 at night, I put on a pair of sunglasses and started yelling at people who weren't there. "HEY RALPH, HOW'S IT GOING BUDDY!?!?!"
The three black guys never got within 50 yards of me.
I would have had a pleasant conversation with them. before they know it, they'd be my new friends and come over for dinner the next night. I've done it before. I'm a pretty good mediator. How excellent that would be, having some tough guy friends. i haven't had any since I moved away from Aberdeen.
No names on this one, but he was usually the victim of bullies in his younger years. In eighth grade (that's about twelve to thirteen years old, for non-US readers) he took a new stance: he let it spread that he was insane and would kill anyone who attacked him. No one tested it.
I recall that this same kid was mocked by someone, so he took a piece of notebook paper, wrote a coded message on it, folded it and gave it to the mocker. The mocker looked at it and asked what it was. He answered that it was a curse, and that it was now going to take effect. He got in a lot of trouble for that one, even when he decoded the perfectly innocuous message for the school authorities; but people left him alone after that.
It came back to haunt him, though. In high school, people started to believe that he was crazy and dangerous, and he felt like everyone was muttering about him behind his back (which they might or might not have been). It made the social situation there intolerable.
King David pulled such a stunt in a different context, though. He was being pursued by King Saul, and fled into the country of one of Israel's enemies, where his name was already known for his prowess in the wars against them. He was seized and dragged before the king there, but he put on an act of being a complete imbecile, and that king was persuaded that the great warrior had lost his mind and was no threat to anyone, so he let him go.
So the image of crazy can be useful, but it can also create trouble for you. If you get people to believe things about you that are not true, you can't be surprised when they believe other things about you that are not true.
--M. J. Young
And if you spend long enough with them telling you it is true, you just may come to believe it yourself and MAKE it true.
You ever tell a lie so many times you start to believe it yourself?
(Doing Therapy)