My sister-in-law is not what you might think of as a fragile female. She’s attractive, but she’s also got a spunky quality to her that gives you the impression that you shouldn’t mess with her. I know her better, and she’s just as vulnerable as the next person, but she makes a good show of being tough. Perhaps this comes from the fact that she works in a bar, and she has to not only put a stop to fights, she has to ward off a lot of unwanted male attention. Even though she lives in a very small town, there are always times when something bad is happening. To protect herself, she has self defense spray behind the bar
with her at all times.
One night in particular, things got really bad. Considering this is a town where everyone knows everyone, most fights simmer down to nothing rather quickly. This night was an exception. There were some rather large guys in the bar talking about a business deal gone wrong. As it so happened, the people on the other end of this business deal came strolling into the bar. My sister-in-law tensed up, and slipped the self defense spray she had into her hand. She could just feel the trouble brewing. Sure enough, within five minutes, voices were raised and the shoving began. She got out the self defense spray and started to demand they break it up.
Her voice could hardly be heard above the music and the shouting, so she picked up the phone and called emergency services, just as the first punches were being thrown. This was a small bar, and these were big boys. Not only were they hurting themselves, they were being shoved into innocent bystanders. Everyone started freaking out. Realizing the police were not going to arrive in time, my sister-in-law jumped up on top of the bar and held her self defense spray out in front of her and started barking orders. A few people noticed her, and they stopped and backed up. They apparently knew that the self defense spray she had in her hands meant that she meant business.
Most didn’t stop though, and she said she had never seen such a mess before, and there was a lot of blood. She didn’t hear sirens so she started screaming for them to stop. A few looked up at her, and one started advance on her. So, she put her self defense spray to the test. It worked wonders. Not only did that guy stop coming, the rest of them immediately began to settle down. She only had to use the self defense spray on one of them to get all of them to finally stop punching and fighting. The cops arrived shortly thereafter and took care of the rest of the problem. Sounds like good stuff to have around, doesn’t it?