Well, I got a lot of mixed reactions from friends on my last blog. So did Jesse. A lot of people kinda wonder how I could be his friend since I'm pretty straight laced and normal, and he sounds like a dirty perv who'd hang out in an adult book store.
I'm sorry to tell you this, but Jesse is an sensationalist.
Jesse is the kind of guy who will tell a story without pause. He will control what he says around certain people. When we were younger, he wouldn't even slip a cuss word in front of my sister. But as soon as she left the room, he'd continue on whatever subject we are on. So on his blog, I give him free reign. I think my biggest mistake I made ever was trying censor him because being frank is the person he is. Trying to silence him would only kill a piece of his creativity.
However, this is the only a part of what you see. Jesse is a good human being. He is there for me whenever I need him. He is the kind of person who doesn't have money, but will share whatever he has. He may only have a hundred bucks to his name, but he will STILL buy you dinner. He will drive your drunk ass home without even batting an eyelash.
Everybody who has met him likes him. Everybody. My conservative parents like him. My brothers like him. My friends like him and so do their girlfriends. Even my ex-girlfriend who despised him knew he was a good guy deep down. Jesse is a friend for life, and I will defend him because he is a kind of man who would throw down with you if you got into almost any trouble.
Now when we made our blogs, we had a point to make. We admit we were wrong. We shouldn't been talking like that in the place, or at least so LOUD. Let me re-iterate what I just said:
We were WRONG.
Despite our mistakes, the debate on the subject wasn't our stupidity and our actions. It was the marine fucktard's treatment of us. We apoligized and he wouldn't leave us alone. He had the right to be pissed, but not to belittle us like children and flex his 'nuts'. And that was the subject of this debate.
Part of the role of being the person who confronts strangers in public who are assholes is being the bigger person. Your goal is to quell a situation without causing another one. Confrontation with people you don't know is stressful and hard, and you will have to be confident and be somewhat forceful to make your point. He CREATED another situation by being both overly-confident, making us to feel like we were beneath him, and making it seem we had no choice but to do what he says under the threat of violence.
He went from being in the right, to mishandling the situtation and being in the wrong.
That was were Jesse called foul, stepped in and did his thing. Jesse put him his place without stooping to his level and being a threatening dick. And that is something to be proud of, not something to be angry about.
That was the point we were trying to make: there is a right and wrong way to handle situations, and we started off in the wrong and ended up in the right. Any thoughts? Let me know in the comment section.
-Rafael
