I don’t blame the OP. I’ve done worse. :o But from a ‘tactical’ point of view, following and confrontation is a ‘no-no’. Getting squirted isn’t worth getting cut, stabbed, beat, or shot (or getting in a situation where you have to defend yourself even against even unworthy opponets).
OK I have to agree with you on that one Machetero.
I agree that in the great scheme of things, getting hit in the head with a little water is no big deal. But picture yourself minding your own business at work, busily typing away, and a coworker comes up and lets you have it in the kisser with a squirt gun. Hey, what’s the big deal, it’s just a little water.
Yeah, down here we hate tourists down here, too, what with all that dirty money they throw around and everything . . .
Sheesh.
Man, apparently I just love the phrase “down here.”
This has been adressed many times already but I have to add this,
For anyone who thinks getting squirted with water you weren’t expecting is harmless, try being hit from the side with a squirt gun while you’re wearing contacts. I’ve had a contact knocked right out of my eye because of that happening. I was playing around in the yard so it was no big deal. I got my glasses from the house and all was good.
If this had happened while I was driving, I would have been blind in one eye. This doesn’t do much for peripheral vision or depth perception.
No matter how small an action may seem, anything can have really bad consequences.
Several years ago, I was driving out of a mall parking lot when, from seemingly out of nowhere, I got a splat of water in the face. I wear glasses, but that still didn’t completely shield my eyes, as the shot was from the side and the water went behind the lenses.
I didn’t look to see where it came from. I kept going, and cleaned my glasses while I was sitting at the red light at the end of the street. Now, my reasoning was that I didn’t want the people/person (I assumed “kids”) responsible to get the satisfaction of seeing me react. But later, when I related this to a friend, she said, “You were right not to stop. That could have been a carjacking.”
And, I can give an example of a “practical joke that makes both parties laugh”. It happened at the height of the Look-for-the-differently-marked-packaging-and-win craze. Pepsi Points and like that. I was in the break room at work, and two co-workers were looking at a water bottle and muttering to each other, just loud enough for me to easily overhear.
Co-Worker 1: Is this logo gold or silver?
C-W 2: The silver’s supposed to be worth $100…or is it the gold?
C-W 1: Well, is this gold? I think it’s gold.
C-W 2: No, looks like silver…But maybe it’s the gold that’s $100…
Helpful Rilchie hopped over to closely inspect the label…and got a squirt of water from the pinhole C-W 1 had put in the plastic bottle. Now that was funny; heck, I’m chuckling right now. But I walked right into that one. And their intention wasn’t to piss me off. And most importantly, I wasn’t driving.
Sig line!
That would really chap my granola-eatin tree-huggin sandal-wearin eco-terrorist ass. You dig?
Rightious dude(tte)…