Reply #23: Jumped by a gang outside a convenience store

[City of Mills]

The day after I graduated high school, ended up surrounded by 7 or 8 gang bangers. They were just looking for somebody to beat on to impress each other i'm sure. Anyways one engages me in some intelligent dialog "You gotta fucking problem? You gotta fucking problem with me?" So I tell him I don't know him and while I'm talking, the guy to his right rushes me and shoves me over a guy in back who had kneeled in back of me (i'm sure they've been practicing that move) - I go head over heels and scramble to my feet just in time for the first guy to punch me in the face. It didn't faze me at all though, I don't even think I flinched. My adrenaline had kicked in. He threw another punch and hit me again, again I didn't even feel it. I threw a left and missed, and then one guy to my left threw a karate style kick at me which missed. At this point everything was surreal, I had no idea how I suddenly ended in a fight...but then something happened - the guy threw another karate kick and I caught his leg. Using it to throw him off balance, he ended up falling down with my weight on top of him. He hit head first and started screaming, which caused the other gang bangers to suddenly take off. I got up, startled, and the guy got up from the ground and staggered off. The whole episode must've taken been about a minute or two but felt like much longer.