Have you ever been punched in the face as an adult? What's the story?
I was a non functioning alcoholic and ran with some rough types in my late teens/early 20s and have both kicked ass and had my ass kicked. Mostly drunken barfights.
One time someone legitimately mistook me for someone else and started cussing at me, so I started cussing back and pushed him to the ground. He got up and did a really neat move actually where he faked a kick and then socked me right in the cheek, knocked me on my ass. I apologized, got up, we figured out the misunderstanding and he bought me a beer.
I drove through southern England in a camper van. A car coming the other way at a narrow part of the road stopped and the driver motioned for me to wind my window down. I stopped beside him and did so cause I thought he wanted to ask or tell me something. He punched me in the face and drove off.
To this day I have no idea what that was about, the only explanation I could come up with were my German license plates.
I worked with adults with developmental disabilities in my early adult life, specifically those with behavioral issues and some with gang affiliations (some of them may have been on the spectrum or may not have but used our program as a way out of jail/prison).
I got punched in the chest, spit in the face, threatened with stabbing, and more. I’m sure at some point I was either slapped or punched in the face too.
The only person I have ever punched and been actually punched by is my brother. I forget what we were yelling at in our apartment but we're twins. We got each other in headlocks and just traded punches to the dome. I'm sure that looked like a cartoon from an outside perspective.
No. And it was really also only one good sucker punch, so definitely could have come worse. What messed me up mentally too was that it happened like 200m from my appartment.
My brother and I were dancing at his wedding. He was imitating dance-moves that Mac from IASIP does with his elbows and accidentally bow’ed me in the jaw. It hurt but was pretty funny.
Same brother as a teen was showing me his shadow-boxing skills and punched my nose. Again it was funny, but it made me cry lol. Obviously I’m the younger sibling..
Only if you count the accidental backhanded punch of my ex-wife while I was having a dream where I got attacked and had to punch someone.
I've never been punched in the face, only had my face full force thrust into a vending machine by a teenage bully when I was like 8 or 9 because I wouldn't let him cut in the long line at the pool and use the money I had already started putting in the machine.
Got punched over the counter while working at a liquor store. The dude had been 6 times already that day to get our cheapest/highest ABV Beer and was back for more when suddenly he decided the price was too high. He argued with me (working solo at the time) and things escalated to the point where he pooped me in the nose. I was able to dodge most of the force of it due to the distance and his drunkenness, but he got the tip of my nose with a clumsy naymaker.
After he hit me he suddenly had a realization about what he'd done and he ran away as I threatened to call the cops (an empty threat, I live in America and only call the cops when someone might die because calling the American cops might be the cause of someone's death). Never saw him again.
The kicker is that he'd already paid for his beer when he started the argument and forgot to grab it as he ran.
Yeah. Super drunk dude who got thrown out of a bar decided everyone was on his shitlist. Apparently, he was known to the cops. I was standing outside and dude ran up in punched me. I hadn't said a word to him the whole night. Not sure why he picked me. He appeared to be coked out, so there's that. He was arrested for something else (DV, I think) not long after.
If you're counting early 20's as "adult" then yeah, although looking back, I acted nothing like an adult. Adults don't get into fistfights in the tavern parking lot.
I was 27 and traveling. I had some time to kill so headed to a local bar for a few drinks before I turned in for the evening. Of all the people in this fairly crowded bar, I get a loud drunk guy that thinks he knows me, he keeps putting his arm around my shoulder, trying to act chummy, telling anyone who will listen that "we're cool, old friends".
I got fed up and stressed he didn't know me, to keep his hands off me. well, he took great offense to this, exchanged some words and stormed off into the crowd. I figured that was that... But some time goes by, he returns and again throws his arm around me. This time I forcibly removed it. Before I could even process the whole situation, his other hand came around and punched me square in the face knocking me on my ass.
I hopped up, pushed him through the crowd and put him through a standalone table. He was pretty hammered and didn't get up immediately, the bartenders started yelling at me acting like I was the aggressor. I bolted straight to the door and got the hell out before anything more came of it. I'm not sure what happened to the guy, I think he was okay, but I got back on the road bright and early.
When I was 22 y.o. I punched someone from the rival team in a football match until he fell to the floor because he pushed a teammate into a rocky slope after the ball was out of play. I got expelled from the league (and the match obviously). I got kicked and punched but not in the face by the rest of his teammates.
I've never really been punched in the face even when I was a kid, unless you count protruding inanimate objects slamming into me. Isn't the head, which contains the skull, a rather unattractive spot to strike one's first move on?
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