Originally posted by Gedanken:
Well, the other aspect to this is that the other fellow, drunken sod or not, has shown disrespect to you, your wife and your marriage, and it becomes a question of how far he pushes it. Under the circumstances, he didn't do enough to warrant any follow-up, and your brother-in-law showed good judgement in intervening.
A couple of years ago, my girlfriend (now my fiancee) and I were at a pub when this worm sleazed up to us, and he asked me if she was my wife. I said, "No, she's my girlfriend" and steered away from him. The creep spent the better part of the next two hours watching us, and when my girlfriend went to the loo, he cornered her outside the toilet door and asked if she wanted to change boyfriends, and kept bugging her even after she told him to piss off.
I'm usually the laid-back sort, but that tore it. I pinned him to the wall, gave him a couple of tight slaps and told him that when a woman says no he needs to learn to respect that.
oh wow...that guy really stooped too low...as mentioned, that guy was drunk, and has probably forgotten that she's my wife...afterall, we were introduced to him sometime back...