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I've been in a new job for a few weeks. A new job and a new city and my girlfriend has been away whom is my only link with the city so it's been a pretty stressful time.
But the bloke next to me is an absolute violence magnet. There is barely an hour goes by that I can't imagine myself punching him.
I'm a really laid back bloke and it is obviously important that I keep my job. I could ask to move but that seems like a soft option and would only create tension amongst everyone else.
But this dude is too much. He asks really personal questions as his idea of 'banter', he also has this thing of pretending not to hear me (because I myself am a little deaf from football (soccer injury) so it is sort of a piss-take thing. And then in general he is mugging me (insulting) off quite a lot because I'm new, pretty laid back and quiet and from London having moved up North. It has sort of came to head when I asked him a question and he said: 'shut the fuck up!'. I was taken aback and just said 'You can't say that to me!' He said: 'I just did.' Now really there is nowhere to go from there. In any other context I could have just punched him as he literally asked for it but I can't. I just said: 'Alright, let's see how awkward this gets.'
Next minute he's brushing it off like it is nothing and trying to make normal conversation with me again.
It is proper schoolboy stuff and a bit embarrassing but I am definitely going to punch him at some stage its inevitable.
But the bloke next to me is an absolute violence magnet. There is barely an hour goes by that I can't imagine myself punching him.
I'm a really laid back bloke and it is obviously important that I keep my job. I could ask to move but that seems like a soft option and would only create tension amongst everyone else.
But this dude is too much. He asks really personal questions as his idea of 'banter', he also has this thing of pretending not to hear me (because I myself am a little deaf from football (soccer injury) so it is sort of a piss-take thing. And then in general he is mugging me (insulting) off quite a lot because I'm new, pretty laid back and quiet and from London having moved up North. It has sort of came to head when I asked him a question and he said: 'shut the fuck up!'. I was taken aback and just said 'You can't say that to me!' He said: 'I just did.' Now really there is nowhere to go from there. In any other context I could have just punched him as he literally asked for it but I can't. I just said: 'Alright, let's see how awkward this gets.'
Next minute he's brushing it off like it is nothing and trying to make normal conversation with me again.
It is proper schoolboy stuff and a bit embarrassing but I am definitely going to punch him at some stage its inevitable.
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