Scary situations
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- goldieboy0
I was walking down a country lane with 4 friends. I pulled a knife out on some gay. I thought I recognised him and lost my shit...
- moldero0
I would have fed him that knife, along with mine.
I fuckin hate bullies.
- orrinward2
I was back in suburbia for Christmas to see my family and as I was walking from the local rural pub to the train station on my final night there 5 kids (I'd guess between 13 and 20) walked across the road.
One of them deliberately bumped into me, but I didn't want to cause anything so I just apologised - a simple and very English, "Oops, sorry!". One of the group then faced me aggressively and shouted "Sorry for being a fucking gay, I'll fuck you up!". I detest homophobia, but didn't want to cause a scene. I then calmly said "Oh I'm not gay, and I wouldn't be sorry if I was. I'm sorry because I bumped into your mate".
The little shit pulled a knife on me straight away and held it up to my chest but not pressed against me. He held it there for a little while and started shaking a bit, without saying anything. After a little while he just pulled it away, yelled "Fuck off gay or I'll stab you" and then they all ran off ahead. One of them lagged behind a bit and looked back at me as if to say "I'm sorry, my mates are fucking idiots".
What I found weird about the whole thing is that although I was the one being threatened, he was the one not in control of his shit. I've been stabbed in the leg before when I was a teen (mugging for a phone), had a gun held to me (making out with the wrong girl at Fabric) and while I was living in Bethnal Green I was held at knifepoint twice in a year. I don't think the kid had even thought "Yeah I'll pull a knife on a fucking randomer tonight" and I just remember his face after he pulled the knife out. He looked me in the eye in a very confused way that was almost asking me "What do I do know? I've fucked up here haven't I".
In the moment with the 5 of them I was cool as a cucumber, but 5 minutes later when I got to the station and needed to buy a ticket I was so shocked I couldn't even use the ticket machine.
It's very weird for me that I've now been in enough weird knife situations that I feel that I'm the person leading the situation when it happens to me. I feel like next time I'll probably say to my assailant "perhaps we should just do this round the corner as it's not well lit, and people can see you right now, you might get in trouble".
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What's the scariest experience you've been in?