I remember once time I was pulling into a self-service gas station. At the same time an older fellow in a old truck was pulling in ahead of me. Some young guys in their early 20's tried to zip in in front of the truck but the fellow beat them to the pump.
The older fellow gets out of his truck and starts pumping gas into his truck. The young guys start mouthing off to him. The older guy does not say anything. They start calling him old fart and such things. He still does not say anything.
The punks don't seem to like the guy not reacting so they get out of their car and one approaches him. He just looks back and forth at them. And then real calm like the older guy stops pumping gas, turns around and then just kinda leans back on his truck and folds his arms. And not a word comes out of his mouth. The other punks get out of the car. There are four of them. They start saying things to him I won't post here. He just looks at them..
One of the kids says "Can't you talk you old bast**d? I'm going to kick your ass!" and he charges at the old fellow followed by his buddies.
Now I'm thinking that this fellow is going to get hurt and I start to open my door thinking I'd see what I might be able to do. I'm not sure what the older fellow did next but I had not taken a step and all four of the punks were on the ground. And bleeding. A couple badly. The first one was screaming and his nose was all messed up. A couple of the others were out cold and the last one was just rolling around howling and cussing and holding his arm. It looked like it was broken. The old fellow didn't say anything still. He just turns around, pumps the rest of his gas and walks up to the cashiers booth and pays his bill. The cashier is just wide-eyed and keeps saying "yes sir! yes sir!" as he hands back the change.
The old fellow walks over to his truck and as he opens the door he looks over at me and winks. Again, he does not speak.
As he drives away the glass door on his camper top is banging up and down on the top of the closed tailgate as he bounces over into the street. There are two stickers on it. One says "Semper Fi" and the other "U.S. MARINES". And you know what? That said it all!
Char :)