Unfortunately some people seem to be hard wired to extract revenge on anyone who "disrespects" them. Throw alcohol into the mix and they end up with a hair trigger that goes to a visceral/violent reaction without thought to consequence.
The closest thing to a physical fight I've even been in resulted from me refusing to get into the car with a drunk driver in college. Our "DD" for the night had slammed 6-7 beer in the course of 2 hours and proceeded to throw up on himself.
At that point I basically said "{X} I'm not getting into your car, let's just call a cab, I'll even pay for it." instantly something in his brain clicked over and I didn't "trust" him to drive, and thus had disrespected him. Long story short he hopped into his car anyways and drove off, and we took a cab to our next destination. When we arrived he immediately charged at me screaming "You're gonna pay! You're dead!".
I turtled, other folks pulled him off and throw his drunk ass out the door. He proceeded to call back and threaten that he was going to come back and make sure I paid.
All of this because I refused to get into his car after he had thrown up on himself and was in no condition to drive.
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