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alexandra wrote:9 am in the morning. parking my car in front of the college. nice black bmw parking right side of mine. rich college boy , busy talking on his mobile, opens his door like crazy and making a small scratch to my car. i mimediatelly went to him and i saied: hey, what's wrong with u? can't u look before opening the door, r u blind? he was like: cant u see that i am talking on my mobile now? ok, i waited untill he ended his cal and we started to get a fight. he annoyed me so much with his richie rich,daddy's boy attitude! in one moment he started to call me names and i could not control myself, i raised my voice and when he saied to be shut up u bitc# i will pay for the damage, i saw black in front of me and i snaped his face with all the strenght i had...i went so crazy. the guard inn the college entrance called the police and they gave us both a ticket, me for snaping his sh!t face and him for making a quarell. what annoyed me more is that now i have to paint my car on my money and the police officer defended on him...what da hell is going on with this world? for me it was wrong to snap his face , and he was not wrong to insult me!!!!!!!!!
Dubai Knight wrote:Sort of weird that!
Just checked with a mate of mine and apparently it classifies as a 'motoring offence' as the initial call out was to a traffic related incident. Some things here are a little upside down!
Knight
Mel Marie wrote:Well, i dunno why i feel that the guy didn't mean it & he was willing to appologise if you didn't ask him if he was blind at the beginning
Girls
Liban wrote:Verbal attiacks are to be answered with verbal attacks and not physical violence. While it was a shitty situation with that guy and he was being a loser with his attitude, you certainly have no right to slap him across his face...
Sorry but I had to play the devil's advocate here.
arniegang wrote:Good on you girl, i bet that shut his big mouth up. The pleasure of smacking a ignorant tosser in the gob should more than make up for a bit of car damage.
alina_4u wrote:what a great start of a realtionship between alexandra and that spoilt bmw owner. hateness and fighting is the first step to love... good luck
easternjewel wrote:Dear Alexandra,
Liban is right, & well... I can Imagine, anyone can loose temper in that sorta situation! so well its cool you slapped him & i hope it was good one!!
ShamanWhisper wrote:It's really tough to take a side here. On the one hand, I realize there is very high chance I would have flown off the handle in a similar situation too. On the other hand, impartially speaking, you really had no right to punch a person who merely verbally insulted you. Moreover, there was indeed some chance that the guy would have apologized and offered a compensation had you not patronized him. Your sarcastic question, however, might have sounded more of an insult to a high-class person used to have people lick his boots than a punch would have been to a street-smart punk. The "richie rich" might have taken it just as bitterly as when you did when he called you names. After all, why do you think you had the right to punch him when he called you names and he had no right to toss some expletives when you patronized him?
Judging the situation from the legal point of view, the car scratch, which the guy inflicted, and the breach of peace, which you stirred up, are two separate cases. He was normally supposed to win the latter, while you could have won the former had you wanted.
Now discussing the case from the moral point of view, I have to mention I was raised and educated in a country where men are taught to treat ladies with every courtesy and chivalry. So, damn, I'd have probably punched the guy myself if I were there witnessing your fight! Although I doubt your punch caused him too much physical damage, I'm sure it was a hard blow to his ego, as I can barely think of a more embarrassing situation for a guy than being hit by a lady (unless she's obviously out of this world).
Speaking about your future relationship with the guy... Never say "never"! Although I don't remember having started a relationship with any girlfriend on terms of anger or hatred (I presume "teasing" and "mild pranks" don't count as offenses ), I met all of my buddies except one in some very bizarre ways. I punched my first chum ever in kindergarten so hard that I sent him reeling backwards until he fell and couldn't stand up without help, giving him the largest bump on the forehead I have ever seen in my life. (Don't judge me hard; I had a reason!) Later on we started clicking so well, that he almost worshipped me. The other guy with whom I've done lots of crazy things in childhood used to be one of my worst enemies a long time ago. We used to have the most ruthless fist fights ever, and parted with our faces covered in bruises and blood. I used to disdain another one of my pals in high school because he seemed very envious (envy is the vice I hate the most!), only to start having the most phylosophical talks with him a couple years later. I met one guy in a summer camp and played some really bad pranks on him, again to end up sharing life plans with him later on. So, you can never know how things turn out to be! Life's so damn ironical!!!
alexandra wrote:p.s moldovaaaaa, ahhhh we r practically neighbours
alexandra wrote:legally i did not have the right to slap his babyface, but i think morals were more powerfull reasons.
alexandra wrote:i am well aware of the fact that dimplomacy is better way to solve things , but after an insult like that i was out of my mind( blame it on my latin blood, lol).
alexandra wrote:but u r right, i should let one of my friends kick his smart $ as#....
alexandra wrote:i need to chill, i know!
alexandra wrote:i know him from college, seen him arround and his attitude goes like: all women r prostitutes (hope his mother is not aware of the golden kid's opinion ), daddy who bought me the bmw, will bribe the profs so i will pass the xams..he is pissing me off and his bad luck was that he did it in a when i was not feeling good and i was having a lot on my mind.
Douce`Amere wrote:Alexandra, you don`t realize it but your anger & aggression will work against of you in 99%. Some time ago I`d say what you`ve done was cool. But it`s not a way… Your reaction is not more than an inability to control an anger. Don`t make it your problem.
ShamanWhisper wrote:alexandra wrote:p.s moldovaaaaa, ahhhh we r practically neighbours
Yes, we do live in neighboring countries that share a language and have a significant part of history in common...alexandra wrote:legally i did not have the right to slap his babyface, but i think morals were more powerfull reasons.
What you call "morals" here, I call "temper". LOL!alexandra wrote:i am well aware of the fact that dimplomacy is better way to solve things , but after an insult like that i was out of my mind( blame it on my latin blood, lol).
It was apparently a matter of "legal justice vs. assertive self-esteem". You've made your choice!alexandra wrote:but u r right, i should let one of my friends kick his smart $ as#....
I don't remember having suggested that! Actually I believe you've already got back at him with vengeance!alexandra wrote:i need to chill, i know!
Great idea!alexandra wrote:i know him from college, seen him arround and his attitude goes like: all women r prostitutes (hope his mother is not aware of the golden kid's opinion ), daddy who bought me the bmw, will bribe the profs so i will pass the xams..he is pissing me off and his bad luck was that he did it in a when i was not feeling good and i was having a lot on my mind.
One more question... Setting all your anger aside, do you find the guy handsome?
alexandra wrote:guess this is the 1% of the cases that u mentioned! thanks for the advice although!
Douce`Amere wrote:alexandra wrote:guess this is the 1% of the cases that u mentioned! thanks for the advice although!
There is also persentage about how wrong we are when we think we are right. lol
I gave you an advise cuz I faced the problem an uncontroled anger in 1 period of my life. It comes together with the point of own rightness.
alexandra wrote:p.s what city r u located in moldova?
alexandra wrote:i dont find him handsome, blond hair and shiny white face...
alexandra wrote:i dont find him handsome, blond hair and shiny white face not my type
alexandra wrote:for sure he can give the richie smart as$ some manners lessons.
about my temper it's like i saied before in my post reply to u: blame it on my latin blood! when it comes to defend myself i am not easy to be k.o.
u saied also something about make him pay: if i wanted to get against him in a personal vendetta he will be now a dead fried chicken, but i dont wanna use my energy and my time in a useless thing like him!