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CM - Conflict Managment at the pump - (long)... Posted by Mike Lynch [Email]  (#81) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from Mike Lynch) on Fri, 10 Jan 2003 19:30:31
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My local cheap gas station is quite crowded. As I waited in front of this truck for a pump a little blue Honda with a carbon fiber hood pulled up too, but well after me. When the truck left the Honda darted in front of my pump! I was able to pull up enough to block the guys access and out of the Honda climbes an angry young Asian fellow screaming at me.
I stayed seated in my 900SE with the window down and shouted back that I was there first, that I had seen him drive up after me and would he kindly move? He became irate and his buddy got out of the other side and approached my window.
I noticed the Asian fellow was wearing a new black t-shirt with "CM" on the front and CONFLICT MANAGEMENT in big white letters on the back. I shouted at him "What's the t-shirt all about?" and he said "None of your business" angrily. Meanwhile the other guy is getting a little close to my window, calling me "homie" and saying that if I knew what was good for me I'd move on.
I was late for a dinner party, had my wife with me, and decided not to press the issue as the other guy had the gang uniform, big coat, saggy pants and knit cap. On reflection I wasn't angry like the guys in the Honda. I wanted to assert myself because I was right, I was there first and it was a very public place, what could they do? But I just backed up and drove off and got my gas down the street, 2 cents a gallon more.
I'm a fairly large, rough, tough old, former rugby player so I wasn't physically afraid of these kids, but I suppose they could have pulled a gun or a knife. I told my wife as we drove away "Did you see that one guys's t-shirt that said CONFLICT MANAGEMENT?" and we laughed and laughed.
It was a great story at dinner that night.
As I said I wasn't the least bit angry with them, but they were very mad at me to the point of threatening violence. Do you suppose the CONFLICT MANGEMENT t-shirt was from some court ordered probation thing? I could only imagine that kind of behavior is exactly what leads to all the gang violence. It seemed just a matter of time and circumstance until those boys pulled the same thing for their turf or some girl and got someone who wouldn't back down. Violence and ultimately jail must just be a way of life for some people. What a shame.
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