I nearly wrestled a man to the ground OR “you don’t want none of Mama Bear, now do you???”

The other day I found an old post that made my blood boil all over again.  Worth a repost!  🙂

“Today, I almost had to wrestle a man to the ground. Here’s the story…

Ran & I stopped in what could be termed, “the hood” to go to McDonald’s on our way to Detroit yesterday. This Mickey D’s is right across the street from the Kalamazoo Gospel Mission and literally sharing a parking lot for a homeless rehabilitation center. Needless to say there are lot of homeless, handicapped & mentally unstable people who may just be ‘a little off’ who frequent the place.

This day was no different with one guy singing –quite badly- at the top of his lungs, one guy speaking in slurred speech trying to shake the hands of every woman who came in and then we have an older man of about 50 years looking like a total pimp daddy with his yellow & blue silky shirt on and matching yellow snake skin shoes.

He comes right up to Ransom & I; “well I see it’s some pretty girls all up in here today.”

I ignore him.

When Ran & I get up to leave the weird man follows me out and says “d*** you fine as h**.” I say thank you as non-thankfully as I could & put pep in my step. Then he gets in my face and asks for a ride home. I say no. He says he’ll pay me. I say no. I say excuse me please & I keep going. I unlock the car & as I’m getting Ran in the car seat, he gets in the front seat!

He got in the front seat!

Is he crazy?

I said with authority, “sir, get out of my car right now. I am calling the police.” He sits and then mumbles something about me being pretty again. As I get the phone and Ransom out of the car now, he says, “c’mon b***h I’ll pay you.”

I said sternly, “No, GET OUT OF MY CAR.” And then Ransom said “no, no, no, no!”

And then he called Ransom a “spoiled little sh**.”

Now at this point, all fear has left me. Most people know the scared-of-every-thing side of Grace but there is also the I-grew-up-in-the-hood-&-I-don’t-play-that-&-I-also-know-how-to-pretend-like-I’m-not-scared-at-all side of me & it came out with force.

All of a sudden I felt like I was Sydney Bristow (an unstoppable CIA agent from Alias) & I might have to kick his butt to protect my son. And I was ready to get into a royal rumble if I had to.  No one messes with Mama Bear when she’s with her bear cubs!

Anyway, once he called Ransom a bad name, I threatened him with pain –and without even a smile on my face! 😉

I looked at him with a deadly serious look, “Sir, get out of my car right now or I will have to hurt you.  Sir, I WILL hurt you.”

My plan was …..

Okay so I had no plan, but I did see a hanger in the back seat. Also, I knew someone had all ready called the police. Also, I was not afraid of him. At the very least, I always have teeth & a foot and knowledge of where “it” hurts.  In when it comes down to it, I (don’t think) I’m afraid to use them! 🙂

Anyway, he got out. I was really only slightly frazzled by that whole thing, but I must admit writing it out makes it seem all the more dramatic.

I was more saddened by that crazy episode. Perhaps just overwhelmed at the issues that plague urban areas.”