Father was right

Dad has always taught me and my siblings never to get involved in a fight that doesn’t concern any of us. He said breaking up a fight is good but it’s always safe to mind your business. He said a lot of people have ended up getting severely injured just because they saw two people fighting and came in between them to break up the fight. He also said he has seen people get killed, I don’t know if that was true or maybe he said it just to scare us but whichever it was, it did scare me.

So I always made sure never to go break up a fight. As a matter of fact, I made sure to stay far away from anywhere that seems to be filled with violence. But when I saw this lady burst into the restaurant I was having lunch at and started pulling the hair of this other lady, I knew I had to do something because the guy who the lady was having lunch with was obviously going to do nothing seeing how shocked he was that he probably had just been caught cheating.

So I immediately got up from my table and went over to separate them. I got there just in time to avoid her pulling the ladies hair off her scalp.

“What are you doing with my man? You slut!” The lady who almost made someone bald yelled as I tried to prevent her from launching another attack.

The other lady on the other hand was strangely calm, you could tell she was confused as to what was going on but the moment she heard those words from her attacker, she redirected her gaze to the man sitting with her. “What is she talking about?” She asked the man who I’m sure was mentally searching for a million words to say at that moment.

“I’m so sorry honey, it’s not what you think.” I heard the man say. I was obviously disappointed because I was expecting him to come up with something creative, seeing how long it took him to find those words.

“Honey? You still have the guts to call her honey?” The lady I was restraining yelled out as she viciously tried to get off my grip. She was a wild one and I was almost losing my hold on her when…

“Will you shut it? This is my wife for Christ sake” The man finally said the magic words that immediately calmed down the beast.

It turned out the lady knew he was married but has never met or seen his wife, so when a friend tipped her off about her man having lunch with some lady, she had immediately marched down to the restaurant to go fight for “her man”.

By the time I left the restaurant, the police were already on their way. The lady said she was going to charge her for assault or something like that, I was too surprised by the whole drama to pay attention. It was after I got home and was getting ready for bed that I realized that I had left my change at the restaurant.

My father was right after all, although I didn’t get injured, my wallet did.

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