FIGHTS

Did you ever get into fights with other kids? Did you ever start a fight? Or stop one?

I did everything I could to avoid fights. In fact, I paid off a guy not to fight him (gave him candy). He was not trying to extort anything from me. I was just the biggest guy in the class and fighting with me would increase his cred. That was in third or fourth grade.

Later on in high school I had about the same issue although I did not payoff anyone. I did get sent home for responding with some violence to a short kid who slapped the back of my head in class. I got up and chased him until I caught him and held him by his shirt collar and picked him up off the four. Just then a teacher walked in... 

The only other time I got into a fight it was with a friend... a church friend. To this day I do not understand what got into him. After school I was walking my bike out of the school courtyard to go home. He came up and started to pick a fight. I told him I did not want to fight with him. From behind he put his arm around my throat. I just threw him over my leg to the ground and repeated that I did not want to fight and then just walked away.