a couple of times.

a guy threatened to shoot me not too long ago and as it turns out, he found out who i was and had already done time for owning a firearm so i dunno exactly how serious he was but as irony would have it, someone shot and killed him the week after he threatened me.

the only time i've ever wound up "worse off" was when a girl attacked me on the bus. as much as i wanted to, i couldn't bring myself to hit her back so i just had to restrain her.

I must be maturing but except when there's not much choice, i'm now content to do the sensible thing which more often than not is not argue or fight back unless absolutely necessary whereas a year ago i'd have been more interested in looking macho and beating someone up. the guy that threatened to shoot me probably woulda done more about it if i'd done him some real damage. there's got to be a moral in that somewhere....