Fcukin hell this is beginning to sound like Clint Eastwoodās Gran Torinoā¦
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Im sorry, as soon as the ācalm down Karenā comment came, I would have just laughed it off and tsken it on the chin. It woukd have defused the situation straight away. A laugh with them followed by an acknowledgment of yhe humour and they would have moved it
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Youāre right as well.
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Would it be a normal distribution of teenagers? A fat one, a skinny one, a gay lad and one with a disability of some kind. A fit and healthy 40 something year old would manage it if he chose his targets correctly.
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At my age, Id barely manage a wag of the finger and a "Iāll ring yere parents " comment. Yeah that would teach the fuckers
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Was it a lad in the passenger seat with a large forehead who was angry about his marathon prep?
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Agreed
Would it be very personal to ask @backinatracksuit if the missus found you āmore manlyā for your reactionā¦ Even for a few mins
She knows what Iām like, she didnāt bat an eyelid, just kept on running, sheās doing one of those couch to 5 k programmes and didnāt want to be interrupted during the running section, when she got back around she had as much involvement as me
Iād not have bothered interacting at all. In truth Iād have been glad to see kids out and about. If it had troubled me that much, Iād have shouted ādo you mind if I move the bike a bit?ā Probably, but who knows. You are often snappier when exercising I find
Itās no different to my pal asking kids politely to move their bikes which theyād dropped across the door of the shop, and having the yob of a father square up to him and tell him to āmind his own fcuking business or heād fcuking kill himā
The father was none other than John Bishop, mr nice on telly guy.
My pal, whoās an oncologist at The Christie down the road is a really nice, kind, mild mannered man.
You need to go full john Bishop or nothing at all in these situations. I logged it here before but a few years back the local teens were picking on my motherās house for a bit of knockaā¦ Harmless enough in some ways but it was going on a bit and she lives aloneā¦ I was staying there on my own one night and i heard the stupid fuckers saying ālets do mama Bradyās houseā ā¦ So i was readyā¦ Knock knockā¦ And out i flew after about 10 of them and grabbed the first one i could get by the neck and hauled them back to the house where i threatened the guards ā¦ A few smart comments from the others when i released my captive and i just pretended to take a few pictures of them and told them to fuck off.
They never knocked again.
@backinatracksuitās wife did the right thing sticking it to them, she just needed a bit of support from her husband.
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Bump on this as something reminded me of it.
If anybody remembers the running track āKarenā track incident.
Update: the mouthiest one of the lads is now known to me, and weād be on nodding terms. I spotted him playing in a basketball match a few weeks later, maybe months,
Anyway he definitely noticed me at the match and he was deliberately trying to avoid eye contact while glancing over, you know the way.
Anyway when the game was over I was chatting with one of his coaches and as he passed I said āwell done, good gameā or something like that, he said thanks. Heās good but very much style over substance.
Iāve seen him a few times since and weād nod and give a little how ya, usually in basketball gyms but once in Mary I as well.
Iād say heās still a cheeky little cunt but not with me.
Iād still be kicking myself if I had turned the other cheek that day 
You are one strange cat man.
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Teenagers are sound.
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There no such thing as a bad child, just bad parents
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But they in turn had bad parents. I blame famine trauma
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Except your lad David
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