Don't Fight Old Men

You know boy, it's a bad strategy to pick fights with old men. Sure, in most cases, you're a muscular punk used to street fighting, while he's an old fool who's got no fight in him, so you'll beat him easily—so easily in fact that there's no glory in it whatsoever. But in some cases, you'll find an old man who has got some fight in him. And then he's the kind of guy who's got some fight in him, yet who survived to that old age. So he might have a serious drop on you in terms of fighting, whether he is a boxing champion or has a hidden gun. What more, he knows he doesn't have the stamina to win a drawn out fight against a young man, so he'll go directly for the kill using the dirtiest trick in his book, and he'll give no warnings. He doesn't care too much if he himself ends up in a hospital bed, a jail cell, or a coffin. You see, he's old already. His kids are grown up. His wife can continue without him. His heyday, his career, his love life, are behind him. He's ready to die. A long stay in a hospital, or a prison, will give him time to catch up with all those books he eventually intended to read, or write. A stay paid by his insurance, or by the government. Anyway, he hasn't got much to lose. And so he'll hurt you bad, and if not, you'll have to hurt him bad. Either way, if you're still alive at the end of the fight, you'll be in big trouble, with a lot of time to serve—in your case, the best years of your life. And all that for what? There's not much to win, if at all, in such a fight, and there's a whole lot to lose. Thus my advice is: don't pick fights with old men.