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Thing of the Day!
“We met at a rough, divey, venue, with a lady in her 60’s who was clearly once a very attractive woman running the bar. We made friends with the locals who really shone up to us. There were a lot of skinheads in the place, and a lot of characters that I think my friend would have been afraid of under normal circumstances. We befriended Dan, who was a 37-year-old skinhead, wearing a tracksuit, and he had two scars from fresh gashes on his head. Dan was full of cocaine and talked a lot. He said he has a son that he is losing to drugs and a daughter who gave him his first grandchild yesterday. Dan shared crazy stories with us for a couple of hours and casually showed us a knife he was carrying in his pocket. Dan looked frightening, but I found out that there was a good heart inside of him. I was picking on him, which he seemed to like because he looked completely psycho and I am sure not many people tease him. People were coming into the bar and were inviting us to their tables to sit, trying to save us from Dan. But, of all of the people who thought they would ‘save’ us from Dan, he seemed like the most genuine and seemed to have a better character than anyone else in the place even though he was nuts. I enjoyed my night hanging around with him and my friend was also amazed by this man. We spent our whole night talking to him, and he even bought us drinks. It was interesting.
I told my friend what my father told me in a dive in Wolf Point, Montana, when two rough native women took a liking to us not long before a couple of rough native men were sort of picking on us. He told me, “Son, if you have a good woman on your side, you are always safe.” I took that into consideration that we had the most psycho man on our side, and that no matter what would happen in the bar, he would probably take care of us should any trouble start...because I was certain there would be no trouble between him and us.
The whole night turned out just fine and fascinating.
Heed your father's advice from experience. Those guys just know...
”— Copenhagen, Denmark.
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