I've got axis powers running through my veins (Italian, Russian, German lol) so it was natural that I ended up with a crazy temper. However, while I let it flow like the freakin' dark side of the force in my youth (I had knocked some kids teeth out, body slammed some other kid ... the list goes on ... my parents were always in the principals office) I realized that I didn't want to go to jail so I should curb the violence. I will say, that all the people that I was ever violent to, had it coming (the kid I body slammed for instance had spent weeks taunting me and then had run up behind me and thrown a hand full of dirt down the back of my shirt then got me in the eyes with another one as soon as I turned around). I like to think I taught a number of very valuable lessons to those people. As for violence I've personally experienced, one was from a gang banger - the push and shove you type to intimidate you. I didn't provoke him. He was wasted and I was in his "path". A few other times it was women - mostly screaming matches or super lame stuff like taking off a shoe and trying to hit me with it (what I call the, "Jerry Springer Technique"), followed by another popular technique of trying to do some hair pulling or "slap fighting". These instances where mostly where I was trying to break up something going on between people I knew and wasn't just some random chick on the street. Other than that, I'm super observant to "situations" and individuals who are giving off that violence vibe, and have been able to avoid other things that probably could have gone sideways.
