Glenn E. Meyer
New member
Quite a few trainers offer classes that deal with street interactions. For example: SouthNarc, Insights, KRtraining, FAS - just to name a few.
They are well worth taking. Street approaches can be efficiently handled with the learned skills. Works for me.
About washing your windshield.
When I was in college, I needed a good typewriter. They were quite expensive. My uncle, who had some 'suspect' connections in NYC - suggested paying full price was not necessary. Thus, one evening, my dad, uncle and I went to a less than optimal part of the East Side to purchase said typewriter. So we get the typewriter of a loading dock in a dark and evil alley. As we are going to leave - a dirty man in a long overcoat approaches the car and and asks for money. My dad and uncle were known for combative youth adventures and were not panicked. Uncle says - GET out of here ya bum - work for a living (sidebar-cracks my dad up as Uncle had a suspect income stream). The bum reaches into his pocket. Well, did a gat, roscoe or piece appear? Did a fire fight start. NO - it was a mackerel - which the bum wiped over the windshield of Uncle's car. And he fled. Windshield wipers do not remove fish goo!
Dad and I busted a gut laughing. Dad - says - Tough guy - haha.
If the bum was shot (did Uncle have something illegal in NYC - who is to know?) his claim of self-defense would have been fishy.
They are well worth taking. Street approaches can be efficiently handled with the learned skills. Works for me.
About washing your windshield.
When I was in college, I needed a good typewriter. They were quite expensive. My uncle, who had some 'suspect' connections in NYC - suggested paying full price was not necessary. Thus, one evening, my dad, uncle and I went to a less than optimal part of the East Side to purchase said typewriter. So we get the typewriter of a loading dock in a dark and evil alley. As we are going to leave - a dirty man in a long overcoat approaches the car and and asks for money. My dad and uncle were known for combative youth adventures and were not panicked. Uncle says - GET out of here ya bum - work for a living (sidebar-cracks my dad up as Uncle had a suspect income stream). The bum reaches into his pocket. Well, did a gat, roscoe or piece appear? Did a fire fight start. NO - it was a mackerel - which the bum wiped over the windshield of Uncle's car. And he fled. Windshield wipers do not remove fish goo!
Dad and I busted a gut laughing. Dad - says - Tough guy - haha.
If the bum was shot (did Uncle have something illegal in NYC - who is to know?) his claim of self-defense would have been fishy.