Reminds me of a story...
One time two friends of mine and I went to Sterling CO (About a 5-6 hour trip) to visit one of their brothers. We stopped in Denver and one of my friends announces that he wants to get in a fight that night, so he buys yellow coveralls and a pink shirt. (We were planning to go to cowboy bars) His master plan was that he was going to act gay and when the cowboys started anything he would get in a fight. He's a big guy and fit. He goes about 6' 5" but he's not really that much of a fighter (but that's because he doesn't really have to be at his size )
So we first go to a bar called 'The Rose' in Pedroni, CO. We're talking teensy town. Bar full of cowboys. (We were cowboys too, so no problem). Arlen walks in with his yellow overalls and pink shirt and says loudly, with a flair and a lisp, "Oh, so this is the Rose, I LOVE it." The other buddy, Lee, and I decide that we can't let him get into a fight there (mostly because we didn't want to jump in with all the cornfed SOBs) so we go in the bathroom and talk loudly amongst ourselves about how Arlen (big guy) just got back from the kickboxing tournament in Hawaii, at which he won the heavyweight division. Well, it didn't take long before the word spread and everybody was giving Arlen a wide berth. He kept getting more and more out of hand trying to get something started, but people just apologized and called him 'Sir'.
Right before we left, we were playing quarters and Arlen didn't want to drink so he threw the whole pitcher of beer over his shoulder all over the table behind us. The guys jumped up, the girls screamed, Arlen said "That oughta do it!" and jumped up ready to go. One guy whispered to the other guy and they apologized for him spilling his beer and offered to buy him another pitcher. LOL.
It was one of the funniest, most surreal nights I've ever had. The look on Arlen's face was priceless as he just couldn't believe nobody there would fight him. We almost did get into a fight though when Lee and I told him what we did.
~rc