Who's actually been in a fight before? How'd it go?

[Topgunben]

When I was 20. My neighbor downstairs (apartment) was threatening to kill his girlfriend in a drunken rage. Things settled down for a while, until I woke up to a blood curdling scream coming from outside. I looked out the window and could see him chasing her across the parking lot. I threw some clothes on and ran outside, she ran up to me and put me between him and her. He told me to move or he would beat the hell out of me. All that came out of my mouth was, “I love you man”.

It was a pretty awkward thing to say and he ended up running away in a tearful mess, swearing up a storm. He eluded the cops for the next couple of days. When he was released from jail he came up to my place and apologized. I’m glad we didn’t fight, there’s a good chance one of us could have been seriously injured, possibly killed.