Transcript
This was a couple of years back, and I was still drinking,
and I was in a pub, one of my favorite pubs.
I like the dives, pubs, and I was in there
with a shirt like that I have on, like this.
It wasn't this one, but it had something to say
about Vietnam or Purple Heart or something.
And the bartender and the guy sitting next to me
started making disparaging remarks.
"Well, you guys are da-da-da phony, da-da-da-da-da
and this and that," and I just took one look at him and I says,
"It's not worth it for me to get into it with you, pal.
I'm not going to engage you, and that's it."
And that, before, I would have fired.
I would have fired.
Or I would have taken it to a real high level of animosity.
So, I felt real proud of myself because I was thinking of those
things that I learned in that class, how to control situations.
Instead of being sort of a catalyst for an explosion,
just diffuse it, you know, and still keep your dignity.