Marsupialized wrote:The dude got punched in the face and kicked in the back and he also attempted to punch my wife, but she dodged it and was only hit my a piece of chicken then he was held back by bystanders.
He would have beaten the shit out of her if not held back.
Right: he did something wrong, she retaliated, he said he'd retaliate. Sounds just like your story, but without the punching (yet, anyway). He's promising to retaliate, just like you. I hope he doesn't find you or your wife, but by your self-justifying logic he's completely right in going after her. She kicked him.
You think the dude was justified in pulling his move and almost smashing into me then flipping me off?
So how did punching him address that, exactly? Did it somehow compensate for this great and terrible wrong of his driving badly?
And you did call him an asshole, so you provoked him to flip you off. Tit for tat.
Good for him, what the fuck do I care what his version is?
That's kinda my point. You don't really care. You're smart enough to frame the story to make yourself look sympathetic on a message board, but you're don't really care too much about what you did because as far as you're concerned it was the right thing to do.
Why should you care?
Because if other people treated you this way every time you did something stupid you'd be dead by now.
Because this asshole is also your neighbor and it's in your own best interest not to ratchet the situation up next time he sees you, or anyone else. Suppose he starts carrying a mag light now, because he's scared shitless to be driving around the wilds of Wicker Park. Say your hot wife absentmindedly cuts him off and he reworks her face with the mag light.
Because your little road rage thing might just be a sign that you've got some serious anger problems, and you might be the one reworking your hot wife's face. I mean, if you can lose it that bad over someone driving like an asshole (something I'm quite sure you see EVERY DAY in Chicago) then it obviously doesn't take much to set you off, and regardless of whether you get away with it next time or not you might not be happy with the results.
You should care about his perspective on the whole thing because it might give you a little insight into why what you did was fucked, even if you got away with it.
The dude was an asshole, anyone on the face of the planet who witnessed his move would say 'what an asshole' there's just absolutely no explaining his actions other than 'what a fucking asshole'
If I kick a dog, I am an asshole. If I race up a street when it's not my turn to go, almost smash into someone then lay on the horn and give him the finger, I am an asshole. Don't know what to tell you.
Did you fix that by punching him? You think he's going to be less of an asshole now? Nah, you did it for you - your little penis extension. You decided you'd take your little piece of justice out of the world. At least you were smart enough to keep it from being a fair fight - you wouldn't want to risk that.
I already said I was wrong for hitting him and I should not have.
Right, but then you said:
I said he deserved it, but I should not have done it. That's my stance.
So which is it? Did he deserve it or not? If he "deserved" it for driving like an idiot, then you're completely justified. If not, you're not.
If the guy who grabbed your wife's friend's ass (who's turned into a gangbanger since the first post) tells his friends he shouldn't have done it, but that hot ass just deserved to be grabbed, then it's all okay, right? I mean, I'm sure he understands he shouldn't be grabbing asses, but it was just so hot, how could he not?
When someone says they are wrong for something, there is no need to further chastise him for his action because uh, yeah it was wrong to hit him.
Yeah, you seem really sorry you did it. That's why you posted something on a message board bragging about it, why you keep pointing out that "he deserved it".