So, I get off patrol early on Saturday night, and I'm excited because this means I get to see my girlfriend, and go see my friends band play at a local Starbucks. The place is packed, but I'm able to find a seat with my best friend, apostacykilla. While we're trying to enjoy the show, there is a group of guys being really rude and obnoxious. They were being rude, and loud, and smoking right in front of my blatantly pregnant friend. Anytime the band would mention something about Jesus, these guys would put their arms in the air, and totally mock the band with things like, " Hell ya! Amen!" and, " Preach on brother!"
While this was getting on my nerves in the worst way, I refrained from saying anything simply cause i could tell that they were intoxicated, and high on something. So the show ends, and we go to a pizza place near by, and bring our food back to the Starbucks where the "motley crew" is still sitting. Out of the blue, one of the guys gets up and tries to hug a girl we were with! She told him," Excuse you!", and he mumbled something and sat down. Then, the other guy he was with, chose to curse at my friend! She asked him what he said, and he gets up out of his seat, and gets right in her face and tells her what he said. I can't and won't repeat it on this blog. I had had enough. Maybe at this point, I should have just told our group to leave, but I didn't. Instead, what I did would turn the night upside down.
I said, " Dude, that's not necessary." That was what they were waiting for. They were looking for a fight, and I just gave them a reason. Well You can use your own imagination to come up with all the nice words he had for me. It started escalating quickly, and I started going into cop mode. I got on the phone and started calling the police. I told these idiots what I did for a living, and that only made it worse. Meanwhile, My buddy was getting into it with them as well. Next thing I know, One of the guys cold cocks my buddy! I snapped. I jumped over the fence, and did what I had to do, as did my friend. I'm not proud of it, but there was no way I was going to sit back and watch them throw punches. So I sent one guy to the hospital. I'm not proud of that either. I haven't been in anything like that since high school!! I thought I was done with this kind of stuff! Needless to say, these idiots were charged with several different things, and after a trip to the e.r, they went to jail.
The dilemma is this... What would you have done? It seems that everyone who was there, feels I was justified. I was there with my church group! But it seems everyone who has heard the story second hand, looks at me like they're ashamed of me. I mean, I'm a worship leader for goodness sake! I'm not proud of it. I don't delight or revel in this experience. I just feel like I'm being unfairly judged by people who don't understand how these kind of people work. What do you think???
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