The soldier on the phone tonight:
“Let me read these titles to you so I can make sure you’re getting the right thing,” I said. “Because you’re right this gal does not speak much English and… well you know it’s confusing so just check this out.”
I read the titles of these obscure fight training dvds and he got all happy. “Yeah, those are them.” He told me the history of this kind of fighting. ‘ am getting a little rusty and I want to brush up on this stuff.”
“Okay.”
“Except I don’t know where I’m going to do it, though. I am not sure where I can practice because anyone sees me doing this they’re going to want to fight. They’ll say what are you? Some kind of expert? And I’ll say, I am the hairy bastard that is going to kick your ass,” he said.
“Yeah?”
“Yeah. And then I will probably get in a fight and get my ass kicked.”
“You will?”
“Yeah. Because I am slow, old, blind and fat,” he said.
“You are?”
“Yes and I’m lovesick. Yep, I’m lovesick too and none of this is good for fighting. I am like an old rhino. I have to walk away from the pack now. I can’t be with them, I am too old.”
Where does SFS get that he’s old? Is he just saying it to get a rise out of you, E, or is it his Mars/Saturn thing? Because, from here, he sounds lethal. Even if he’s long in the tooth. 😉
SaDiablo – you’re right, he’s not that old but he is beat up from the war(s).
And you are also right, he may be more lethal than ever because he is inclined at this point in his life to kill you immediately (like this 70 year old man did to a bandit while on vacation in Costa Rica https://www.elsaelsa.com/astrology/2010/07/02/sleep-with-her-husband-at-your-own-risk-redux-violence-meets-violence-instant-karma/
)
I mean, I can’t see him taking a chance. He is too old for cat and mouse and sparring. I am pretty sure if attacked he would hurt the person quite profoundly as quickly as he could.