panhead
Well-Known Member
If we were in the joint i'd buy that explaination but were not,respect on the street is bullshit,on the street it's just a word,nothing more.
I did 2 years for respect,never again.
To each his own however, I've always been taught if it's worth fighting about then you fight, if it can be walked away from walk away... Respect is something I just have a big problem with leaving on the table but again like I 1st said we'll just agree to disagree because to each his own... [/QUOTE]
I agree that if something is worth fighting for its worth going all the way,if the circumstance presented itself where i felt physically threatened or the safety of my family was at stake i'd be in for the win but a word is not the circumstance.
With youth comes pride,foolish pride based on a false sense of what is real respect,fuk what assholes say to you it's how you play your own life is whats really important,i'd rather have the respect from my family because im home every night being a good father & husband than the respect of some peice of shit racist,a racist who will surely testify against me in court after i break him down & put him in his place.
I tell you something about the need for respect,one of the bit's i served was about me getting respect,when i was a young man i was robbed by a mother fuker at gun point,he put a pistol in my mouth & took all my shit,then gave me a crack on the head before he split,i stewed about finding this guy for months,hell i even had dreams about catching & hurting his ass.
As chance would have it i was going into an auto parts store about a year later,who did i see standing in line through the window but the same peice of shit that robbed & pistol whipped me,i stood there looking at him thinking yeah mother fuker,i went to my truck & got a big ass tree limb & when he came out i beat him within an inch of his life,all the while he was pulling the standard please sir business, until he passed out,i took all his shit including his pistol then took his shoes off & threw them in the street,that shit felt good as hell to me.
I got my respect back,i also got charged with Felonious Assult with the intent to do great bodily harm less than murder,that charge carries a max of life & for a 2 time fellon with a previous prison record thats scary shit,,i did 30 months that time,all over something i easily could of walked away from,i put my 2nd wife through pure hell while she waited on me,my 1st son lived 2 years without a father & my family suffered & lived beneath the standards they had grown to expect from me,all because of my foolish pride & need for respect.
Im not trying to insult you in any way,you sound very much like i was when i was young,what i am trying to tell you is that you'd better get that false sense of pride in check before it checks you because it will,good people always get fuked in the end over respect & pride.