Haven't Raised a Fist in 30 Years

I'm almost thirty. I've spent over two- years

combined in numerous states incarcerated on misdemeanors, barring

one felony.

In all this time I've never been in a single altercation or fight.

Verbal arguments, shouting matches sure. But a physical fight never.

I literally don't get angry at anything to the point

where I'd fight.

As a kid. Grade, middle and high school nothing.

No shoving or even throwing objects.

It's just never happened. It's not a pacifist stance it's

more of a not being an idiot stance.

Someone could walk up and insult an ailing family member or

slap me and I'd ignore it.

I find the phrase : "I'm not a punk"

annoying. Well hooray for you. In a way I'm undefeated

because I never even began.

I have a perfect streak of non violence or involvement.

People think this is akin to me saying, "I've never told a lie."

Fighting is such an integral part of their makeup they cannot

fathom it's complete absence.

Well I'm the living proof.

My nose has been broken. My own drunken faceplants. My

shoulders, drunken accident.

I mean to see me it sure as hell looks like I'm a seasoned violence

afficionado.

I take advantage of this to avoid idiots.

If you looked at my legal record there's three domestic violences.

Why, I plead guilty to something I never did.

Me and my father were arguing. On one

occasion he hit me.

But I never hit him the worst I did was put a brick to his

windshield and take off.

Once again no physical violence on my end.

This was especially fun because I was relegated to domestic violence classes

with people who had real anger issues. Well I didn't and

finally during the one on one sessions after

many months the councilor finally

confronted me and said

"I don't believe you're violent. I think you just took a stupid plea to

something you didn't do to get out of jail. I think you did this

a few times."

Stupid, on my behalf? Absolutely, but the justice system is so

slow I'd have essentially served the majority of my sentence for said

violence by the time it got through court. I couldn't bail out.

So I plead out.

And I'm not the only one!

So, I hope I make it to the end of October without ever having been in a fight.

Hey a guy has to have a goal. Hell at this point it's become a mission.