Couples who argue on the street

Yeah but sometimes it’s more than just rude.

years ago I once tried to intervene in a street altercation between a veritable mountain of a man and his diminutive female partner. He was doing a lot of screaming and yelling, which was what first attracted my attention, and then he started slapping her around. I had to act although I had no idea what I was going to do. The guy was huge. As I crossed the street I yelled to get his attention, but then as he closed to within grappling distance I realized that things were likely to end very badly for me if he ever got his hands on me. So I kept just out of reach and he chased me around the parking lot for about ten minutes instead of beating on his partner and that’s when the police showed up. My wife calls it my “Woody Allen moment”. What I wasn’t ready for was the way his woman cussed me out as the cops were wedging her man into the back of the police cruiser.

On another occasion a few years back I awoke from a sound sleep at about 2 am to the sound of a violent argument taking place down the block. Turned out to be another ‘Grizzly Adams’ type starting to throw his wife around. This time I cut to the chase and just called the cops myself. They showed up in what seemed like two minutes and when he charged towards them he got tasered. He flopped around in his driveway for quite a while. Served the bastard right.