Something really strange happened to me the other night at a Swing-dancing venue I go to all the time & I just wanted to blog it down for records.
So I stayed out till about 11pm that night. As the night was winding down & I was getting ready to leave, I heard some guy shouting over the music as loud as he could to the girl (a friend of mine) he was standing next to.
I had seen the guy around before, but didn’t know his name. He was really loud, so he caught my attention, but I didn’t think much of it because he started talking normally to her a second later. I figured he must’ve been telling some awkward joke about how loud the music was (we were right next to the speakers) and how difficult it was to have a conversation.
But then he did it again…..and again.
At first I figured my friend would simply excuse herself and walk away – it’s a pretty common thing follows (ladies) do when they don’t feel like talking to a guy – but she didn’t, so I thought maybe she was fine.
Then I saw the guy was holding her arm & she was starting to cry. I took that as my cue to cut-in and excuse us both (me and my friend), escorting her to the lobby. I left her with some of her other friends & went back to see if the guy was still out there. Meanwhile, another friend of mine who had also seen the whole thing went to find someone from the staff.
I saw him following a couple of other people I knew – again, shouting – so I tried to ‘run interference’ with him as they left. He eventually started bothering me, getting in my way as I was trying to walk past him, until I asked him to move.
“Would you please move?” I said.
"What? I can’t hear you.”
“You’re blocking my way. Can you please move?”
“Sure. Go right ahead.”
One of the staff members soon pulled him aside. I found my friend (who was still crying) and asked if she was okay. We could hear the guy screaming a few sentences here & there (didn’t listen that hard though, cuz I never figured out what he was yelling) so someone offered to walk her back to her car so she could leave.
The staff asked guy to leave shortly afterwards. It took a while, but then he did…
…and then he came back.
It was then that other people realized something was up and more members of the staff / other guys started stepping in case there was trouble. This was around midnight and I really just wanted to go to bed at that point. The last thing I saw before I headed home was the guy literally jumping up-and-down, throwing a tantrum as if he were a little kid – again, screaming.
Texted a few people who stayed behind to see if they were all okay. Someone mentioned that they found out the guy suffered a head injury from a while back which I guess might've explained his behavior.
I relayed this story to a few people &…..I think I’m telling it wrong or something, because - when I tell it, the reactions I get are really weird. It makes me feel like….I dunno, I’m doing something wrong by saying all this?
I dunno. Just needed to get it out there.
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